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“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.”

“Psychology is the science of psychic states both as to content and form, regarded from an objective standpoint, and brought in relation to the living corporeal individual.”

States Form Individual Psychology Relation Objectives Psychics Standpoint

Book:The Foundations of Normal and Abnormal Psychology

Source: The Foundations of Normal and Abnormal Psychology

“Psychology must postulate uniformity of interrelation of physical, physiological, and psychic processes.”

Process Psychology Psychics Uniformity Physiological

Book:The Foundations of Normal and Abnormal Psychology

Source: The Foundations of Normal and Abnormal Psychology

“Mental synthesis of psychic content in the unity of a moment-consciousness is a fundamental principle of psychology.”

Moments Consciousness Principles Psychology Fundamentals Unity Psychics Synthesis Fundamental Principles

Book:The Foundations of Normal and Abnormal Psychology

Source: The Foundations of Normal and Abnormal Psychology

“In the dog two conditions were found to produce pathological disturbances by functional interference, namely, an unusually acute clashing of the excitatory and inhibitory processes, and the influence of strong and extraordinary stimuli. In man precisely similar conditions constitute the usual causes of nervous and psychic disturbances. Different conditions productive of extreme excitation, such as intense grief or bitter insults, often lead, when the natural reactions are inhibited by the necessary restraint, to profound and prolonged loss of balance in nervous and psychic activity.”

“Man's unconscious... contains all the patterns of life and behaviour inherited from his ancestors, so that every human child, prior to consciousness, is possessed of a potential system of adapted psychic functioning.”

Men Humans Children Consciousness Psychology Patterns Unconscious Ancestor Possessed Behaviour Psychics Adapted

Book:Modern Man in Search of a Soul

Source: Modern Man in Search of a Soul

“I hold the view that the alchemist’s hope of conjuring out of matter the philosophical gold, or the panacea, or the wonderful stone, was only in part an illusion, an effect of projection; for the rest it corresponded to certain psychic facts that are of great importance in the psychology of the unconscious. As is shown by the texts and their symbolism, the alchemist projected what I have called the process of individuation into the phenomena of chemical change.”

Source: The Collected Works of C. G. Jung

“I think that in order to achieve progress in the study of language and human cognitive faculties in general it is necessary first to establish 'psychic distance' from the 'mental facts' to which Köhler referred, and then to explore the possibilities for developing explanatory theories... We must recognize that even the most familiar phenomena require explanation and that we have no privileged access to the underlying mechanisms, no more so than in physiology or physics.”

“The self is defined psychologically as the psychic totality of the individual. Anything that a [person] postulates as being a greater totality than [oneself] can become a symbol of the self. For this reason the symbol of the self is not always as total as the definition would require.”

Persons Self Reason Individual Psychology Greater Oneself Definitions Symbols Defined Psychics Totality

Author:Carl Jung

“There are as many archetypes as there are typical situations in life. Endless repetition has engraved these experiences into our psychic constitution, not in the forms of images filled with content, but at first only as forms without content, representing merely the possibility of a certain type of perception and action.”

Firsts Action Form Certain Situation Psychology Possibility Type Perception Constitution Filled Endless Typical Repetition Psychics Representing Archetype Engraved Situations In Life

Author:Carl Jung

“The psychic depths are nature, and nature is creative life.”

Creative Psychology Depth Psychics Creative Life

Book:Modern Man in Search of a Soul

Source: Modern Man in Search of a Soul

“I can only gaze with wonder and awe at the depths of and heights of our psychic nature. Its non-spatial universe conceals an untold abundance of images which have accumulated over millions of years of living development and become fixed in the organism....Beside this picture I would like to place the spectacle of the starry heavens at night, for the only equivalent of the universe within is the universe without; and just as I reach this world through the medium of the body, so I reach that world through the medium of the psyche.”

World Years I Can Body Night Universe Heaven Wonder Millions Psychology This World Development Depth Mediums Fixed Height Abundance Awe Organisms Psychics Spatial

Author:Carl Jung