Carl Jung Quotes About Culture

Quotes about: Culture

• Too much of the animal disfigures the civilized human being, too much culture makes a sick animal.

  Carl Jung

  Animal, Sick, Culture

  "The Psychology of the Unconscious". Book by Carl Jung, 1916.

• It is not for us . . . to send out missionaries to foreign peoples; it is our task to build up our own Western culture.

  Carl Jung

  Western Culture, Tasks, Culture

• Our western mind lacking all culture in this respect, has never yet devised a concept, not even a name for "the union of opposites through the middle path", that most fundamental item of inward experience which could respectably be set against the Chinese concept of Tao.

  Carl Jung

  Opposites, Names, Chinese

  Carl Gustav Jung, Richard Francis Carrington Hull (1992). “Two Essays on Analytical Psychology”, p.205, Psychology Press

• It is just man's turning away from instinct--his opposing himself to instinct--that creates consciousness. Instinct is nature andseeks to perpetuate nature; while consciousness can only seek culture or its denial.

  Carl Jung

  Men, Denial, Culture

  Carl Gustav Jung (2001). “Modern Man in Search of a Soul”, p.98, Psychology Press

• 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.

  Carl Jung

  Culture, Common, Speak

• A residual sea of symbols which is shared by all mankind, usually accessed through dreams or altered states, and from which cultures draw images on which to found their religions.

  Carl Jung

  Dream, Sea, Culture

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