Carl Gustav Jung: Frasi in inglese

Carl Gustav Jung era psichiatra, psicoanalista e antropologo svizzero. Frasi in inglese.
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“I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.”

Variante: I am not what happens to me. I choose who I become.

“People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own souls.”

C.G. Jung libro Psychology and Alchemy

CW 12, par. 126 (p 99)
Psychology and Alchemy (1952)
Contesto: People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own souls. They will practice Indian yoga and all its exercises, observe a strict regimen of diet, learn the literature of the whole world - all because they cannot get on with themselves and have not the slightest faith that anything useful could ever come out of their own souls. Thus the soul has gradually been turned into a Nazareth from which nothing good can come.

“Thus the soul has gradually been turned into a Nazareth from which nothing good can come.”

C.G. Jung libro Psychology and Alchemy

CW 12, par. 126 (p 99)
Psychology and Alchemy (1952)
Contesto: People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own souls. They will practice Indian yoga and all its exercises, observe a strict regimen of diet, learn the literature of the whole world - all because they cannot get on with themselves and have not the slightest faith that anything useful could ever come out of their own souls. Thus the soul has gradually been turned into a Nazareth from which nothing good can come.

“We cannot change anything unless we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate; it oppresses.”

C.G. Jung libro Modern Man in Search of a Soul

Variante: We cannot change anything unless we accept it.
Origine: Modern Man in Search of a Soul