The 90 best phrases and reflections of Carl Gustav Jung

Carl Gustav Jung was one of the most fervent disciples of Freud and psychoanalysis, until in his personal evolution, he discovers his own theory about the unconscious that gives a new meaning to this human characteristic. With his work on the ‘collective unconscious’, which derives from all those patterns or archetypes that we inherit from our environment and in turn transmit in it, he entered history. These archetypes are fed by the personal experiences that each one lives while finding her complete identity.

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Great phrases and reflections by Carl Jung

Next we will see a set of phrases and reflections by Carl Jung, which will be able to teach you all that background that exists in human interactions and the meaning that is acquired depending on the way in which each person see.

1. Life not lived is a disease from which you can die.

There is nothing more true than this phrase.

2. The meeting of two people is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is a reaction, both are transformed.

A beautiful metaphor about the connection between two people.

3. When love is the norm, there is no will to power, and where power prevails, love is lacking.

Love should not be restrictive but a space to grow.

4. Everything that irritates us about others, leads us to an understanding of ourselves.

Also known as projection.

5. Who looks outside, sleeps and who looks inside, wakes up.

You have to first get to know ourselves to be able to face the world effectively.

6. Your vision will become clearer only when you look into your heart.

We perceive things depending on how we experience them.

7. Do not hold back those who walk away from you. Because that way, those who want to get closer will not arrive.

People who want to stay by your side will.

8. Often the hands will solve a mystery with which the intellect has struggled in vain.

There are things that are solved through actions and not plans.

9. Loneliness does not come from not having people around you, but from not being able to communicate the things that seem important to you, or by holding certain points of view that others consider inadmissible.

The way loneliness attacks us.

10. Know all the theories. Master all the techniques, but when touching a human soul be just another human soul.

In matters of feelings, we cannot act cold.

11. The psychotherapist must see each patient and each case as something new, as something unique, wonderful and exceptional. Only then will you be closer to the truth.

The correct way according to Jung to interact with a patient.

12. All of us born originals and die copies.

Do you think this is true?

13. There is no language that cannot be misinterpreted. Each interpretation is hypothetical, since it is a simple attempt to read an unknown text.

All interpretation is a unique and personal action. That is why everyone has an opinion on him.

14. Through pride we deceive ourselves. But deep down, beneath the surface of consciousness, a soft, still voice tells us that something is out of tune.

There will always be a voice that tries to guide us on the right path.

15. Astrology represents the sum of all the psychological knowledge of antiquity.

For Jung, astrology was a fundamental part of humanity.

16. Show me a healthy human being and I will heal it for you.

We all have our problems to deal with.

17. The debt we owe to our imagination is incalculable.

Our imagination allows us to reach points far from our capacity.

18. A man who has not passed through the hell of his passions has never overcome them.

You have to get to the bottom of an issue in order to fully resolve it.

19. One does not achieve enlightenment by fantasizing about light but by making darkness aware.

A phrase to ponder.

20. There are as many nights as there are days, and each one lasts the same as the day that comes after.

Every day is the same, but everyone lives it differently.

21. Even the happiest life cannot be measured without a few moments of darkness, and the word happy would lose all meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.

Life is made up of happy moments and difficulties.

22. If you don't understand another person he tends to consider you crazy.

We understand to the extent that the other lets us know him.

23. You can take the gods from a man, but only to give him others in return.

A reference to the need to believe in a deity.

24. The smallest things with a meaning are worth more in life than the greatest things without it.

Each one gives the importance that he deserves to his things.

25. The wine of adolescence does not always clear as the years go by, sometimes it becomes cloudy.

That is why it is important to resolve any type of conflict in time so as not to drag it down.

26. The man who does not perceive the drama of his own end is not in normality but in pathology, and he would have to lie down on the stretcher and allow himself to be cured.

A reference to the fear of death being natural.

27. If there is something we want to change in a child, we must first examine it and see if it is not something we must change in ourselves.

Many of the things that we want to remove from someone, we want to remove from ourselves.

28. What is not made conscious manifests in our lives as destiny.

Everything in life is written, you just have to open your eyes to see it.

29. When the most intense conflicts are overcome, they leave a sense of security and tranquility that is not easily disturbed.

A beautiful way to see conflict resolutions.

30. What you deny submits you, what you accept transforms you.

Accept more and deny less.

31. What you resist persists.

The more we refuse to change, the more that which we drag will weigh on us.

32. Life and spirit are two great powers or needs between which the human being is placed.

There is no life without the spirit that we put into it.

33. Those who learn nothing from the unpleasant facts of life force cosmic consciousness to Let him reproduce them as many times as necessary to learn what the drama of what happened teaches.

Another phrase that reminds us that we must face problems before they consume us.

34. People do whatever it takes, no matter how absurd, to avoid facing their own soul.

It is not pleasant for anyone to face himself.

35. The main function of dreams is to try to restore our psychological balance.

A sample of how significant the dream is for us.

36. It is only these intense conflicts and their conflagration that are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.

You not only have to live conflicts, but find a solution.

37. The scariest thing is to accept yourself completely.

We are always afraid to look inside ourselves.

38. If it were not a fact of experience that the supreme values ​​reside in the Soul, Psychology would not interest me in the least, since the Soul would then be nothing more than a miserable vapor.

A sample of the existentialist character of Jung.

39. From the middle of life onwards, only the one who is prepared to die alive remains vital.

This phrase refers to accepting death as a life process.

40. We tend towards the past, towards our parents and forward, towards our children, a future that we will never see, but that we want to take care of.

The preoccupation with the past and the future.

41. The word "happiness" would lose its meaning if it is not balanced with sadness.

We cannot appreciate moments of happiness without weighing up some sadness.

42. Knowing your own darkness is the best method of dealing with other people's darkness.

When we understand our struggle, we can understand that of others.

43. It all depends on how we see things, and not on the way they are in themselves.

For us, things are as we see them.

44. We cannot change anything without first understanding. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.

Before modifying something it is important to know everything about it.

45. It is much better to take things as they come, with patience and equanimity.

There is no use in rushing or anticipating the facts.

46. I am not what happened to me, I am what I chose to be.

There are those who decide if their experiences mark them or help them grow.

47. You are what you do, not what you say you are going to do.

Actions speak louder than any word.

48. All mythology can be understood as a kind of projection of the collective unconscious.

A sample of Jung's beliefs.

49. The word "belief" is a difficult thing for me. I don `t believe. I have to have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know one thing, and then, I know I don't need to believe.

Your own opinion about believing.

50. Children learn from what adults do, not from what they say.

Children imitate the movement of the adults around them.

51. Depression is like a lady in black. If she arrives, do not expel her, rather invite her as a diner at the table, and listen to what she has to say.

Although he may not be pleasant, Jung fervently believed that we must accept every internal process to solve it.

52. Only a fool is interested in the fault of others, since he cannot change it.

A way to describe people who are always criticizing.

53. As a child I felt very lonely, and I still feel that way, because I know things and I must allude to things that others apparently do not know at all, and most do not want to know.

A sign that some feelings never change.

54. If you are a talented person, it does not mean that you have already received something. He means that you can give something.

Interesting way of looking at born talents.

55. The wise man learns only from his own guilt.

Accept responsibility for our actions.

56. The little world of childhood with its family environment is a model of the world.

Each child sees the world as his home is.

57. The task of people is to become aware of the contents that rise from the unconscious.

The unconscious has something to tell us all the time and we must listen.

58. The bigger the crowd, the more insignificant the person.

The strength of the collective.

59. We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect, it is only part of the truth.

The world is made up of logic and feelings.

60. There can be no transformation from darkness to light and from apathy into emotionless movement.

Any conflict is difficult to deal with due to its emotional burden.

61. I simply believe that some part of the human self or soul is not subject to the laws of space and time.

Another fragment that lets us see the humanistic side of the psychologist.

62. We can come to think that we control ourselves completely. However, a friend can easily tell us something about us that we had no idea about.

Not only does our internal reasoning count, but how others perceive us.

63. The shoe that fits one man tightens another; there is no recipe for life that works in all cases.

A very important lesson to learn.

64. The human psyche lives in indissoluble union with the body, and neither can there be transformation without taking into account the emotions.

The body and mind is a union.

65. Knowledge rests not only on truth but also on error.

Errors always bring great lessons.

66. Life cannot be happy without a little darkness.

In order to appreciate the happy moments, it is necessary to go through the bitter ones.

67. "Magical" is just another word to define the soul.

Jung considered that the soul is the one that contains all our essence.

68. Great talents are the most charming and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang on the thinnest and most easily broken branches.

Sometimes a promising person can become a tyrant.

69. Freedom extends only to the limits of our consciousness.

Everyone must be responsible for his own freedom.

70. The more intensely the family forms character, the better the child will adapt to the world.

The world for children starts from home.

71. Thinking is difficult, that's why many people judge.

People tend to point first before analyzing.

72. Nothing has a stronger psychological influence on your environment and especially your children than the unlived life of a parent.

There are parents who put unrealistic dreams in their children that they could not fulfill.

73. Nobody, as long as they move between the chaotic currents of life, is without problems.

We all have some unfinished business.

74. Until you become aware of what you carry in your unconscious, the latter will direct your life and you will call it destiny.

Destiny is forged with our actions.

75. We cannot live the evening of life with the same program as the morning, because what in the Tomorrow was a lot, in the evening it will be little, and what was true in the morning, in the afternoon will be fake.

Each stage of life has its own way of being lived.

76. Shame is a soul-devouring emotion.

For Jung, shame constitutes an evil that consumes us.

77. In one way or another we are parts of a single all-encompassing mind, a single great man ...

Talking about the collective unconscious.

78. The privilege of a life is to become who you really are.

So fight to be that version you want.

79. We were born at a given time, in a certain place and, just as you add the years to a wine, we have the qualities of the year and the season from which we are born. Astrology claims nothing more.

Jung was a great believer in astrology.

80. There is no birth of consciousness without pain.

All truth brings with it a lot of regret.

81. The great decisions of human life have as a general rule much more to do with instincts and other mysterious unconscious factors that with conscious will and sense of reasonableness.

Sometimes it is necessary to listen to our instincts.

82. Without playing with fantasy no creative work has ever been born.

All ingenuity comes from imagination.

83. The pendulum of the mind alternates between meaning and nonsense, not between good and evil.

We always think between what is right and wrong.

84. The dream is a small hidden door opening to the cosmic night that was the soul long before the appearance of consciousness.

A somewhat mystical vision on the dream.

85. Everything in creation is essentially subjective and the dream is a theater where the dreamer is at the same time the stage, actor, manager, author, audience and critic.

The things we attach importance to are mostly subjective.

86. Emotion is the main source of conscious processes.

We are nothing without our emotions.

87. People need difficulties; they are necessary for health.

Every difficulty motivates us to grow.

88. As far as we can achieve, the only meaning of human existence consists in lighting a light in the darkness of mere being.

There is never completely abandoning hope.

89. The unconscious is not a bad thing by nature, it is also the source of well-being. Not only darkness but also light, not only bestial and demonic, but also spiritual and divine.

Many fear and avoid the unconscious because they do not want to face what lives there.

90. Without freedom there can be no morality.

Freedom is the foundation of any society.