“The passionate reactions of people to a painting, the exclamation, 'Oh, this is wonderful,' may, even if meant in a positive way, entirely destroy the chiaroscuro, the mystical hidden weaving of fantasy which the artist needs.” PeopleIfsWayNeedsMayArtistFantasyWonderfulPaintingPassionateReactionsMysticalWeavingExclamationChiaroscuro Book:The Interpretation of Fairy Tales: Revised Edition Source: The Interpretation of Fairy Tales: Revised Edition
“The ego must be able to listen attentively and to give itself, without any further design or purpose, to that inner urge toward growth. People living in cultures more securely rooted than our own have less trouble in understanding that it is necessary to give up the utilitarian attitude of conscious planning in order to make way for the inner growth of the personality.” PeopleWayGivingAblePurposeOrderCultureUnderstandingGrowthAttitudeTroubleDesignPersonalityEgoGiving UpConsciousPlanningUrgesRootedUtilitarianInner Growth Author:Marie-Louise von Franz
“My God, these Feeling types! ... Sensitive people are just tyrannical people - everybody else has to adapt to them.” PeopleFeelingsTypeSensitive Author:Marie-Louise von Franz
“Especially in times of collective neurosis, the existence of . . . mature people is of crucial importance.” PeopleExistenceIndustryBalanceImportanceCollectivesMatureCrucialNeurosis Book:Archetypal Dimensions of the Psyche Source: Archetypal Dimensions of the Psyche
“There are people who cannot risk loneliness with the experience. They always have to be in a flock and have human contact.” PeopleHumansRiskLonelinessContactFlocks 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
“A human being in a neurotic state might very well be compared to a bewitched person, for people caught in a neurosis are apt to behave in a manner uncongenial and destructive towards themselves as well as others.” PeopleHumansWellsPersonsStatesMightHuman BeingsCaughtBehaveDestructiveNeuroticNeurosisBewitched Author:Marie-Louise von Franz
