“One of the most wicked destructive forces, psychologically speaking, is unused creative power ... If someone has a creative gift and out of laziness, or for some other reason, doesn't use it, the psychic energy turns to sheer poison. That's why we often diagnose neuroses and psychotic diseases as not-lived higher possibilities.” IfsReasonUseTurnsEnergyForceCreativityPowerCreativePsychologyTalentPossibilityHigherDiseasePoisonWickedDestructiveLazinessSheerGiftedPsychicsInactionDiagnosisNeurosisPsychoticCreative PowerCreativenessInactivityGiftedness Author:Marie-Louise von Franz
“People who have a creative side and do not live it out are most disagreeable clients. They make a mountain out of a molehill, fuss about unnecessary things, are too passionately in love with somebody who is not worth so much attention, and so on. There is a kind of floating charge of energy in them which is not attached to its right object and therefore tends to apply exaggerated dynamism to the wrong situation.” PeopleKindDifferentEnergySidesAttentionSituationCreativityCreativeObjectsMountainScholarClientsUnnecessaryFloatingBeing DifferentExaggeratedDisagreeableDynamismUnnecessary Things Book:Shadow and Evil in Fairy Tales: Revised Edition Source: Shadow and Evil in Fairy Tales: Revised Edition
“If a man devotes himself to the instructions of his own unconscious, it can bestow this gift [of renewal], so that suddenly life, which has been stale and dull, turns into a rich unending inner adventure, full of creative possibilities” IfsMenLifeInspirationalMindHas BeensTurnsCreativeRichPossibilityAdventureDevotionDullUnconsciousInstructionRenewalStaleUnendingCreativeness Author:Marie-Louise von Franz
