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Film / Filmmaking / Movies
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The cinema, like the detective story, enables us to experience without danger to ourselves all the excitements, passions, and fantasies which have to be repressed in a humanistic age.
-Carl Gustav Jung
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Genius
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Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better.
-Carl Gustav Jung
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Happiness
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Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.
-Carl Gustav Jung
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Help
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The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed.
-Carl Gustav Jung
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Identity
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If people can be educated to see the lowly side of their own natures, it may be hoped that they will also learn to understand and to love their fellow men better. A little less hypocrisy and a little more tolerance towards oneself can only have good results in respect for our neighbor; for we are all too prone to transfer to our fellows the injustice and violence we inflict upon our own natures.
-Carl Gustav Jung
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Ideology
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Our blight is ideologies -- they are the long-expected Antichrist!
-Carl Gustav Jung
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Imagination
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All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.
-Carl Gustav Jung
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Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.
-Carl Gustav Jung
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Imitation
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Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-Carl Gustav Jung
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Individuality
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Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his individuality as the mass itself.
-Carl Gustav Jung
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Insanity
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The source of numerous psychic disturbances and difficulties occasioned by man's progressive alienation from his instinctual foundation, i.e., by his uprootedness and identification with his conscious knowledge of himself, by his concern with consciousness at the expense of the unconscious. The result is that modern man can know himself only in so far as he can become conscious of himself--his consciousness therefor orients itself chiefly by observing and investigating the world around him, and it is to its peculiarities that he must adapt his psychic and technical resources. This task is so exacting, and its fulfillment so advantageous, that he forgets himself in the process, losing sight of his instinctual nature and putting his own conception of himself in place of his real being. In this way he slips imperceptibly into a purely conceptual world where the products of his conscious activity progressively replace reality. Separation from his instinctual nature inevitably plunges civilized man into the conflict between conscious and unconscious, spirit and nature, knowledge and faith, a split that becomes pathological the moment his consciousness is no longer able to neglect or suppress his instinctual side.
-Carl Gustav Jung, The Undiscovered Self, 1957
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Knowledge
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Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.
-Carl Gustav Jung
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Leadership
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The wise man who is not heeded is counted a fool, and the fool who proclaims the general folly first and loudest passes for a prophet and F?hrer, and sometimes it is luckily the other way round as well, or else mankind would long since have perished of stupidity.
-Carl Gustav Jung
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Light
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As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.
-Carl Gustav Jung
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Loneliness
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Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible.
-Carl Gustav Jung
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Love
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Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.
-Carl Gustav Jung
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Masses
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Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics.
-Carl Gustav Jung
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Mathematics
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The teacher pretended that algebra was a perfectly natural affair, to be taken for granted, whereas I didn't even know what numbers were. Mathematics classes became sheer terror and torture to me. I was so intimidated by my incomprehension that I did not dare to ask any questions.
-Carl Gustav Jung
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Mind, the
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Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.
-Carl Gustav Jung
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Mistakes
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Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.
-Carl Gustav Jung
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Pain
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There is no coming to consciousness without pain.
-Carl Gustav Jung
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Parenting
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Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.
-Carl Gustav Jung
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Passion
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A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.
-Carl Gustav Jung
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Personality
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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
-Carl Gustav Jung
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Perspective
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It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves.
-Carl Gustav Jung
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Books by and about Carl Gustav Jung