A Quick Look At Dr. Jung

 

All this talk of dreams ... A few days I mentioned Freud and told Big Chris I was a Jungian Gal ... Let me introduce you, if you haven't already met him, to Dr. Jung.

Dr. Carl Jung was the son of a pastor, his paternal grandfather and great grandfather were physicians.  He took a degree in medicine at University of Basle, then specialized in psychiatry.  In early papers he pioneered the use of word association.  Jung's addition to modern therapeutic attitudes to dream work arose out of his difference of view with Freud regarding human life.  Jung felt life is a meaningful experience, with roots in something that transcends birth and death.  His interest in alchemy, myths, and legends added to the wealth of ideas he brought to his concept of the collective unconscious.  The subject of symbols fascinated him and he devoted more work to this than any other psychologist.  He saw dream symbols not as an attempt to veil or hide inner content, but an attempt to elucidate and express it.  He saw dreams as a way of transforming what was formless, nonverbal, and unconscious into what was known and understood.  In this way, dreams "show us the unvarnished natural truth."  By giving attention to our dreams we are throwing light upon who an what we really are - not simply who we are as a personality, but who we are as a phenomena of cosmic interactions.

Jung recommended looking at a series of dreams in order to develop a fuller insight into self.  In this way one would see certain themes arising again and again.  Out of these, we can begin to see where we are not balancing the different aspects of ourselves.

                    - This description of Dr. Carl G. Jung was taken from the 
                      Dream Dictionary written by Tony Crisp.

Here are some quote by Carl Jung:


A particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror. As a rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment. 

All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination. 

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being. 

Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk. 

Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own.

Good. There are many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year's course. Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.

Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off. 

How indeed? He copes, like everybody else, as well as he can, that's all. And it's usually deplorably enough. 

If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.

If there is anything we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.

It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves. 

Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people. 

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also. 

Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.

Our heart glows, and secret unrest gnaws at the root of our being. Dealing with the unconscious has become a question of life for us. 

Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you. 

Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose. 

Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better. 

The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves. 

The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable. 

The greatest and most important problems of lifeare all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown. 

The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.

The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition. 

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

The most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and their conflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results. 

The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong. 

There is no coming to consciousness without pain.

Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune. 

Understanding does not cure evil, but it is a definite help, inasmuch as one can cope with a comprehensible darkness.

We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.

We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.

We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

 

 

Quotes are neither here nor there.  I do not agree with all the quotes I share, even though I usually quote men and women who are much smarter than me!  Even though I do not always agree, it gives me a wonderful view of the way they thought and that view is always wonderful to me.

 

I hope you are having a beautiful November day and counting your blessings to Thanksgiving Day!