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Midsummer Night's Dream by P.D. White #CarlJung #quotes #dreams If our dreams reproduce certain ideas these ideas are primarily our ideas, in the structure of which our whole being is interwoven. They are subjective factors, grouping themselves as they do in the dream, and expressing this or that meaning, not for extraneous reasons but . . . → Read More: Jung: Dreamwork is Subjective Real Dream (Sleeping Performance) by Colette #CarlJung #quotes #dreams One should never forget that one dreams in the first place, and almost to the exclusion of all else, of oneself. Carl Jung (CW 10: Civilization in Transition, “The Meaning of Psychology for Modern Man,” 321) See larger image Civilization in Transition (The Collected Works of C. G. Jung, Volume 10) (Hardcover) List Price: New From: Used from: #CarlJung #quotes #dreams Everyone who analyzes the dreams of others should constantly bear in mind that there is no simple and generally known theory of psychic phenomena, neither with regard to their nature, nor to their causes, nor to their purpose. We therefore possess no general criterion of judgment. We know that there are all . . . → Read More: Jung: There is No Dream Theory, per se #CarlJung #quotes #dreams Though dreams contribute to the self-regulation of the psyche by automatically bringing up everything that is repressed or neglected or unknown, their compensatory significance is often not immediately apparent because we still have only a very incomplete knowledge of the nature and the needs of the human psyche. There are psychological compensations . . . → Read More: Jung: Compensation – From the Collective to the Individual #JosephCampbell #quotes #Mythology #dreams Now, that’s the big thing, to activate your imagination somehow. You can do this by taking suggestions from somebody else. You must find that which your own unconscious wants to meditate on. With his imagination activated, Jung found all kinds of new fantasies coming, dreams of all kinds. He began making . . . → Read More: Jung’s Discovery of His Myth #JosephCampbell #quote #Mythology I’m sorry to say that things are so infinitely soft for us these days that we’re drifting apart. There is no aspiration that’s been put in front of us to pull people together, nor any overwhelming fear to drive us together. Well, don’t worry about society. What we are focusing on here . . . → Read More: Spiritual Consciousness as Inborn Instinct #JosephCampbell #quote #Mythology #CarlJung When Jung said he wanted to find out what the myth was by which he was living, what he wanted to find out was what that unconscious or subliminal thing was that was making him do these peculiar, irrational things and giving him problems that his consciousness then had to resolve. . . . → Read More: Personal Myth as Consciousness Resolved #JosephCampbell #quote #Mythology Survival, security, personal relationships, prestige, self-development–in my experience, those are exactly the values that a mythically-inspired person doesn’t live for. They had to do it the primary biological mode as understood by human consciousness. Mythology begins where madness starts. A person who is truly gripped by calling, by dedication, by belief, by . . . → Read More: Values of a Mythically Inspired Person Now, this topic of living your own, personal myth–finding it, learning what it is, in writing on it–first occurred to me when I read Jung’s autobiographical work Memories, Dreams, Reflections. In one passage, he described a crisis in his own life. In 1911–12, Jung was working on his seminal book The Symbols of Transformation. He . . . → Read More: Jung: What Myth Do I Live By? Let me give a summary of Freud’s thoughts on this matter so that we will have the basis for discussion of the individual and society. First, Freud based his model psychology on the idea that there is a will, a desire,an “I want” that is inherent in the psyche. The psyche is a little “I . . . → Read More: Society, Method, and Personal Development (Freud) |
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