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In contrast to the meditation found in yoga practice, the psychoanalytic aim is to observe the shadowy presentation — whether in the form of images or of feelings — that are spontaneously evolved in the unconscious psyche and appear without his bidding to the man who looks within. In this way we find once more things that we have repressed or forgotten. Painful though it may be, this is in itself a gain — for what is inferior or even worthless belongs to me as my Shadow and gives me substance and mass. How can I be substantial if I fail to cast a Shadow?
I must have a dark side also if I am to be whole; and inasmuch as I become conscious of my Shadow I also remember that I am a human being like any other. It is in applied psychology, if anywhere, that today we should be modest and grant validity to a number of apparently contradictory opinions; for we are still far from having anything like a thorough knowledge of the human psyche, that most challenging field of scientific enquiry. For the present we have merely more or less plausible opinions that defy reconciliation.
Whenever the creative force predominates, human life is ruled and molded by the unconscious as against the active will, and the conscious ego is swept along on a subterranean current, being nothing more than a helpless observer of events. The dream is specifically the utterance of the unconscious. The dream content is to be taken in all seriousness as something that has actually happened to us.
Every dream is a source of information and a means of self-regulation;. There must be a thorough-going, conscious assimilation of unconscious contents. Theoretically, there do exist relatively fixed symbols. If there were no relatively fixed symbols, it would be impossible to determine the structure of the unconscious.
The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
A groundbreaking new translation of Dostoyevsky's most radical work of fiction. I listened to Jung's autobiography first, and while it was excellent, this was probably a better and more relevant introduction into Jung's world. Bertrand Russell's A History of Western Philosophy serves as the perfect introduction to its subject; it remains unchallenged as the greatest account of the history of Western thought. I did not know what to expect, having no education on Jungian philosophy and perspective on psychoanalysis, but this is an amazing work. Jung - "The Psychology of Kundalini Yoga",
Each of us carries his own life-form—an indeterminable form which cannot be superseded by any other. Every civilized human being, whatever his conscious development, is still an archaic man at the deeper levels of his psyche. Just as the human body connects us with the mammals and displays numerous relics of earlier evolutionary stages going back to even the reptilian age, so the human psyche is likewise a product of evolution which, when followed up to its origins, show countless archaic traits.
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