Jungian Quotes

#1. An armchair Jungian would say the whole thing is about my own ongoing spiritual search. My interior life has always been one of trying to find a spiritual link, maybe because I'm from a family of separate religious philosophies: Protestant and Catholic.

David Bowie

#2. I was in Jungian analysis for 20 years, 1976-96.

Peter Eisenman

#3. Cheerios bring back memories. I actually don't think I ate them much as a kid, though; maybe it's some sort of Jungian memory, I don't know. But they have so much sugar, it's great.

Penn Jillette

#4. The pictures are of a psychological culture, a Jungian culture, if you will. It emanates from my own psyche ... It's a hard place to get to, honestly. It has taken me many years to get to that place and to define it visually.

Roger Ballen

#5. So the older models, when you look at Freudian, when you look at Jungian thought, and there's still people who really - who really use the Jungian thought of dream analysis, is really that you would analyze the dreams. The dreams are there for a purpose.

Shelby Harris

#6. Some Jungian or Freudian would tell me I'm just trying to go back to the womb ... at gunpoint, if necessary.

Guy Maddin

#7. when it comes to the postmodern applications and contemporary relevance of depth psychology, the Jungian perspective is where the action is.

Christopher Hauke

#8. The Jungian therapist taught me the difference between the ego and the shadow. I realized I'd been so busy being a good girl that I'd completely detached from my shadow. It's something we all have, and it's where all the creative juices are.

Sue Grafton

#9. The ultimate goal of Jungian psychotherapy is to make the symbolic process conscious

Edward F Edinger

#10. I'm attracted to the things that people throw away - the shadow goods, in Jungian terms.

Jim Drain

#11. I trained in psychiatry in the 1970s, and much of our training was about what was then psychoanalytic theory, with a little bit of theory from Jungian psychology and a few other places.

Thomas R. Insel

#12. The Jungian view of drama would be that it affects all of our imaginations and somehow taps into our hidden, ancient, primordial memories.

Jeremy Northam

#13. It seems essential to try to find some meaning to life and I guess Jungian philosophy is the one that's helped me understand myself and the world more than anything else.

Noah Taylor

#14. Go back to The October Palace, which came out in 1994, and there are poems with windows, doors, the rooms of the gorgeous and vanishing palace that is this ordinary world and ordinary life. Jungian archetype would say the house is a figure for the experienced, experiencing self.

Jane Hirshfield

#15. I used the phrases Jungian realism and linear archetypes, and congratulated myself on achieving a level of douchbaggery I had previously only witnessed in shampoo commercials for men.

Catherine Lowell

#16. Thank God I'm not a Jungian.

Carl Jung

#17. I lived with my godmother and mother in New Zealand until I was seven. They were both Jungian psychologists and had a homeless shelter for street gang members in New Zealand.

Tamaryn

#18. The Goddess is the macrocosmic and microcosmic anima, as put in place by Creator. Her existence became necessary in order to give form to Creator's thoughts and therefore ours as well.

Lawren Leo

#19. Healthy mature adults use both Sensing and Intuition but not with equal competence, confidence and conscious control.

Flavil R. Yeakley Jr.

#20. The capacity for growth depends on one's ability to internalize and to take personal responsibility. If we forever see our life as a problem caused by others, a problem to be "solved," then no change will occur.

James Hollis

#21. Yet, we must never 'throw the baby out with the bathwater'".

~R. Alan Woods [2012]

R. Alan Woods

#22. All psychological suffering (or happiness, taken in its usual sense) is a matter of comparison.

Robert A. Johnson

#23. Men should not be sexing their women in the missionary position because they are facing away from the sky. Instead of looking down, men are to look up. To the vastness of Father Sky

Matthew Fox

#24. The paradox of individuation is that we best serve intimate relationship by becoming sufficiently developed in ourselves that we do not need to feed off others.

James Hollis

#25. It is not good for man to cherish a solitary ambition. Unless there be those around him, by whose example he may regulate himself, his thoughts, desires, and hopes will become extravagant, and he the semblance, perhaps the reality, of a madman

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#26. The goal of individuation is wholeness, as much as we can accomplish, not the triumph of the ego.

James Hollis

#27. What we do not make conscious emerges later as fate.

C. G. Jung

#28. I've seen women insist on cleaning everything in the house before they could sit down to write ... and you know it's a funny thing about house cleaning ... it never comes to an end. Perfect way to stop a woman.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

#29. ...it is almost always the case that whatever has wounded you will also be instrumental in your healing.

Robert A. Johnson

#30. Fear of our own depths is the enemy.

James Hollis

#31. In the last analysis, most of our difficulties come from losing contact with our instincts, with the age-old forgotten wisdom stored up in us.

C. G. Jung