“A man likes to believe that he is the master of his soul. But as long as he is unable to control his moods and emotions, or to be conscious of the myriad secret ways in which unconscious factors insinuate themselves into his arrangements and decisions, he is certainly not his own master.” MenWayBelieveLongSoulDecisionSecretEmotionMastersConsciousMoodLikesFactorsUnconsciousArrangements Author:Carl Jung
“For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion, of divine illusion. Poetry attaches its emotion to the idea; the idea is the fact. The strongest part of our religion today is its unconscious poetry.” WorldIdeasFactsTodayEmotionDivineIllusionUnconsciousStrongestReligion Today Book:Poetry and Criticism of Matthew Arnold Source: Poetry and Criticism of Matthew Arnold
“The public's continuing ambivalence about cultural matters is all the more striking given that the political conversation on these issues has for 30 years been dominated by an aggressive, radical right-wing insurgency that has achieved an influence far out of proportion to its numbers. Its potent secret weapon has been the guilt and anxiety about desire that inform the character of Americans regardless of ideology; appealing to those largely unconscious emotions, the right has disarmed, intimidated, paralyzed its opposition.” YearsHas BeensMatterCharacterPoliticalDesireGivenNumbersSecretEmotionIssuesInfluenceConversationAnxietyWeaponsWingsGuiltIdeologyRadicalProportionUnconsciousOppositionAggressiveContinuingRight WingIntimidatedParalyzedAmbivalenceInsurgency Author:Ellen Willis
“Just as ripples radiate from the place where a stone is thrown into a pool of water, our sometime-unconscious thoughts, feelings, emotions, and beliefs create the “disturbances” in the field that become the blueprints for our lives.” FeelingsBeliefWaterEmotionOur LivesFieldsStonesUnconsciousThrownPoolRippleDisturbanceBlueprintsUnconscious Thoughts Author:Gregg Braden
“To express your emotions, you have to be very loose and receptive. The unconscious will come to you if you have that gift that artists have. I only know if Im inspired by the results.” IfsKnowsArtistResultsEmotionInspiredUnconsciousReceptive Author:Louise Bourgeois
“An image is a bridge between evoked emotion and conscious knowledge; words are the cables that hold up the bridge. Images are more direct, more immediate than words, and closer to the unconscious. Picture language precedes thinking in words; the metaphorical mind precedes analytical consciousness.” ThinkingMindLanguageEmotionConsciousnessConsciousDirectBridgesUnconsciousCablesMetaphorical Author:Gloria E. Anzaldúa