25 Carl Gustav Jung Quotes That Will Help You Find Your True Self
Olga Astafieva November 26, 2023, 17:15 Moscow time Audio version: Your browser does not support the audio element.
He tried to reach the bottom of the human soul. And what did she manage to discover there?
Carl Gustav Jung is a Swiss psychologist and psychiatrist, founder of the analytical approach. It was he who divided us all into “introverts” and “extroverts.” He also introduced the concepts of archetype and collective unconscious.
Jung’s theory is original and often difficult to understand. But sometimes a couple of sentences are enough to hear what you need at the moment. Therefore, we have compiled the most important thoughts of the father of analytical psychology in the format of quotes and short excerpts.
We suggest starting with a brief biography of Carl Gustav Jung. After all, a person’s words and thoughts become clearer if we know how he arrived at them.
Traces of the biography.
Carl Gustav Jung was born in Keeswil (Switzerland) in 1875. From a young age he was self-absorbed and strove to acquire knowledge. He loved to be alone, think and dream. Now (with the light hand of Jung himself) they would say of a child like that: an obvious introvert.
The boy read a lot, mainly interested in philosophy and religion. After graduating from school, he entered the medical faculty of the University of Basel. After graduating in 1900 (with a degree in psychiatry), Jung began working as an assistant at the Zurich Hospital for the Mentally Ill.
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The young psychiatrist was impressed by the works of Sigmund Freud and soon began corresponding with him. In 1907 their personal meeting took place. This was the beginning of friendship and cooperation.
Carl Gustav Jung became Freud’s successor. In 1910 he was elected president of the International Psychoanalytic Association. But, unfortunately, the cooperation soon ceased. Disagreements arose between Jung and Freud, leading to a breakup. This happened in 1913.
The time afterward is a difficult period in Jung’s life. For four years he suffered a mental crisis. Due to illness, he even refused to give lectures at the University of Zurich. Only towards the end of World War I was Jung able to emerge from the crisis and begin to formulate his own approach to the study of personality.
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Jung’s ideas and theory.
Carl Gustav Jung studied the influence of unconscious dynamic impulses on human behavior. The essence of the theory is that people in their actions are guided by intrapsychic forces and images.
This is the collective unconscious, which goes deep into history and contains spiritual material. Explains why a person strives for self-expression and physical perfection.
Personality, according to his ideas, consists of three parts.
Ego – everything that forms us: thoughts, feelings, memories, sensations.personal unconscious – repressed traumatic memories. They come not only from their own experience, but also from ancestral (hereditary) experience.Collective unconscious – the deepest layer containing the entire spiritual heritage of humanity. It consists of archetypes, which are the cause of an individual’s particular perceptions and reactions.
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Yes, it was Jung who introduced the concepts of “collective unconscious” and “archetypes.” He also has a theory about introversion and extroversion. According to Jung, it is she who explains a person’s vital attitudes.
In simple terms, an extrovert focuses on the outer world and an introvert focuses on the inner world. They usually coexist, but one trait becomes dominant. Human behavior is essentially a combination of introversion and extroversion.
The goal of our life according to Jung is the complete realization of the “I”. He called this process “individuation.” A person must find his true self by eliminating internal contradictions to release energy for self-improvement. Unfortunately, this is not available to many people. Jung himself believed so. He considered that the main obstacles on this path are the lack of knowledge and free time.
To understand Jung’s ideas a little better, and also to replenish knowledge and save time, read a selection of his short sayings.
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Jung quotes about everything.
Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own soul. Everything that irritates us in others can lead us to understand ourselves. He who looks outside only sees dreams, he who looks inside awakens.
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We may think that we are in complete control of ourselves. However, a friend can easily tell us things about ourselves that we have no idea about. The heaviest burden that falls on a child’s shoulders is the unlived life of his parents. Do not repress those who let you. Otherwise, he who comes to you will not come.
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Asking the right question is already half the solution to the problem. We can’t change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses. The privilege of life is to become who you really are.
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You are what you do, not what you say you are going to do. Loneliness is not caused by the absence of people around you, but by the inability to talk to people about what is important to you or the unacceptability of your views to others. It all depends on how you look at things, not on what they are in themselves.
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If we are not aware of what is happening inside us, from the outside it seems to us that this is destiny. Woe to those who live by example! There is no life in them. If you live by example, you live the life of that example, but who will live your life but yourself? So live yourself. The soul needs your recklessness, not your wisdom. Life is vanity only for those who pursue vanity.
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