Carl Jung Individual Quotations

We shall probably get nearest to the truth if we think of the conscious and personal psyche as resting upon the broad basis of an inherited and universal psychic disposition which is as such unconscious, and that our personal psyche bears the same relation to the collective psyche as the individual to society.

Everyone carries a shadow, and the less it is embodied in the individual's conscious life, the blacker and denser it is. At all counts, it forms an unconscious snag, thwarting our most well-meant intentions.

In the history of the collective as in the history of the individual, everything depends on the development of consciousness.

The individual disposition is already a factor in childhood; it is innate, and not acquired in the course of a life.

Only a few individuals succeed in throwing off mythology in a time of a certain intellectual supremacy--the mass never frees itself.

When facts are few, speculations are most likely to represent individual psychology.

The world begins to exist when the individual discovers it.

The psychopathology of the masses is rooted in the psychology of the individual

Every human being is inherently a unique and individual form of life. He or she is made like that. But there is something which a person can do over and above the given material of her nature, and that is she can become conscious of what makes her the person she is, and he can work consciously toward relating what is himself to the world around him.

No dream symbol can be separated from the individual who dreams it, and there is no definite or straightforward interpretation of any dream.

Myth is more individual and expresses life more precisely than does science.

...anyone who attempts to do both, to adjust to his group and at the same time pursue his individual goal, becomes neurotic.

The bigger the crowd, the more negligible the individual.