One is forced to speak not of what is held in common between the cultures, but what is held in common between the myths, and that in its simplest archetypal forms
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I know that in many things I am not like others, but I do not know what I really am like. Man cannot compare himself with any other creature he is not a monkey, not a cow, not a tree. I am a man. But what is it to be that Like every other being, I am a splinter of the infinite deity, but I cannot contrast myself with any animal, any plant or any stone. Only a mythical being has a range greater than man's. How then can man form any definite opinions about himselfCarl Gustav Jung
You can take away a man's gods, but only to give himothers in return.
Carl Gustav Jung
All religions are therapies for the sorrows and disorders of the soul.
Carl Gustav Jung
Religion is a defense against a religious experience.
Carl Gustav Jung
It had become clear to me, in a flash of illumination, that for me the only possible goal was psychiatry. Here alone the two currents of my interest could flow together and in a united stream dig their own bed. Here was the empirical field common to biological and spiritual facts, which I had everywhere sought and nowhere found. Here at last was the place where the collision of nature and spirit became a reality.
Carl Gustav Jung
I maintained that psychiatry, in the broadest sense, is a dialogue between the sick psyche and the psyche of the doctor, which is presumed to be 'normal.' It is a coming to terms between the sick personality and that of the therapist, both in principle eq
Carl Gustav Jung
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