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Carl Jung Quotes about Personality

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In every adult there lurks a child— an eternal child, something that is always becoming, is never completed, and calls for unceasing care, attention, and education. That is the part of the personality which wants to

In every adult there lurks a child— an eternal child, something that is always becoming, is never completed, and calls for unceasing care, attention, and education. That is the part of the personality which wants to develop and become whole.

Children, Personality, Adults

I have frequently seen people become neurotic when they content themselves with inadequate or wrong answers to the questions of life. They seek position, marriage, reputation, outward success of money, and remain unhappy and neurotic even when they have attained what they were seeking. Such people are usually confined within too narrow a spiritual horizon. Their life has not sufficient content, sufficient meaning. If they are enabled to develop into more spacious personalities, the neurosis generally disappears.

Spiritual, People, Personality

One is always in the dark about one's own personality. One needs others to get to know oneself.

Dark, Personality, Needs

Enlightenment doesnt occur from sitting around visualizing images of light, but from integrating the darker aspects of the Self into the conscious personality.

Light, Self, Personality

To become acquainted with oneself is a terrible shock.

Learning, Personality, Shock

Carl Gustav Jung, Mary Foote (1976). “The visions seminars: from the complete notes of Mary Foote”

A complex is a cluster of energy in the unconscious, charged by historic events, reinforced through repitition, embodying a fragment of our personality, and generating a programmed response and an implicit set of expectations.

Expectations, Personality, Energy

Identification with one's office or title is very attractive indeed, which is precisely why so many men are nothing more than the decorum accorded to them by society. In vain would one look for a personality behind the husk. Underneath one would find a very pitiable little creature. That is why the office is so attractive: it offers easy compensation for personal deficiencies.

Men, Office, Personality

Carl Gustav Jung, Richard Francis Carrington Hull (1992). “Two Essays on Analytical Psychology”, p.145, Psychology Press

Rebirth is an affirmation that must be counted among the primordial affirmations of mankind. The concept of rebirth necessarily implies the continuity of personality. Here the human personality is regarded as continuous and accessible to memory, so that, when one is incarnated or born, one is able, potentially, to remember that one has lived through previous existences, and that these existences were one's own, ie, they had the same ego form as the present life. As a rule, reincarnation means rebirth in a human body.

Memories, Mean, Personality

Everything good is costly, and the development of personality is one of the most costly of all things. It is a matter of saying yes to oneself, of taking oneself as the most serious of tasks, of being conscious of everything one does, and keeping it constantly before one's eyes in all its dubious aspects.

Eye, Personality, Serious

The sight of a child…will arouse certain longings in adult, civilized persons — longings which relate to the unfulfilled desires and needs of those parts of the personality which have been blotted out of the total picture in favor of the adapted persona.

Children, Sight, Personality

Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Memories, dreams, reflections”, Random House Inc

Creative powers can just as easily turn out to be destructive. It rests solely with the moral personality whether they apply themselves to good things or to bad. And if this is lacking, no teacher can supply it or take its place.

Teacher, Attitude, Personality

Carl Gustav Jung (1953). “Collected Works of C.G. Jung: The development of personality”

Unfortunately, there can be no doubt that man is, on the whole, less good than he imagines himself or wants to be. Everyone carries a shadow, and the less it is embodied in the individual's conscious life, the blacker and darker it is. If an inferiority is conscious, one always has a chance to correct it

Men, Personality, Doubt

So often among so-called "primitives" one comes across spiritual personalities who immediately inspire respect, as though they were the fully matured products of an undisturbed fate.

Spiritual, Fate, Personality

Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, Michael Scott Montague Fordham, Gerhard Adler (1954). “The Collected Works of C.G. Jung: The development of personality”

Obviously astrology has much to offer psychology, but what the latter can offer its elder sister is less evident. So far as I judge, it would seem to me advantageous for astrology to take the existence of psychology into account, above all the psychology of the personality and of the unconscious.

Astrology, Judging, Personality

Caution has its place, no doubt, but we cannot refuse our support to a serious venture which challenges the whole of the personality. If we oppose it, we are trying to suppress what is best in man - his daring and his aspirations. And should we succeed, we should only have stood in the way of that invaluable experience which might have given a meaning to life.

Inspirational, Men, Personality

Carl Gustav Jung (1969). “Psychology and religion: west and east”

To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real.

Real, Dark, Personality

Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, Michael Fordham, Gerhard Adler (1968). “pt. 1. The archetypes and the collective unconscious”

The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort.

Personality, Effort, Ego

Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, Michael Fordham, Gerhard Adler (1973). “The Collected Works of C. G. Jung: pt. 1. The archetypes and the collective unconscious. pt. 2. Aion, researches into the phenomenology of the self”

We carry our past with us, to wit, the primitive and inferior man with his desires and emotions, and it is only with an enormous effort that we can detach ourselves from this burden. If it comes to a neurosis, we invariably have to deal with a considerably intensified shadow.

Past, Men, Personality

"The Collected Works".

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