” The positive aspect of the archetype is Motherly love and warmth…Jung considered the Mother the most important archetype because it seemed to contain all else. ” — C. G. Jung

” In addition to your parents, you need fantasy figures. You need strange people who excite your imagination, who may release an image of your calling. You also need mentors or teachers. ” — C. G. Jung

“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.” — C. G. Jung

” A prize should be given to people who successfully suppress the outburst of political madness.” — C. G. Jung

“Slavery and rebellion are inseparable correlates.” — C. G. Jung

“For a young person, it is almost a sin, or at least a danger, to be too preoccupied with himself; but for the ageing person, it is a duty and a necessity to devote serious attention to himself.”
— C. G. Jung

” About a third of my cases are suffering from no clinically definable neurosis, but from the senselessness and emptiness of their lives. This can be defined as the general neurosis of our times.”

— C. G. Jung

“Taking it in its deepest sense, the shadow is the invisible saurian tail that man still drags behind him. Carefully amputated, it becomes the healing serpent of the mysteries. Only monkeys parade with it.” — C. G. Jung

“There is good reason for supposing that the archetypes are the unconscious images of the instincts themselves, in other words, that they are patterns of instinctual behavior.” — C. G. Jung

“Real liberation comes not from glossing over or repressing painful states of feeling, but only from experiencing them to the full.”

— C. G. Jung