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If man were merely a creature that came into being as a result of something already existing unconsciously, he would have no freedom and there would be no point in consciousness. Psychology must reckon with the fact that despite the causal nexus man does enjoy a feeling of freedom, which is identical with autonomy of consciousness. CW 11 - par 391

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Anyone who is conscious of his guiding principle knows with what indisputable authority it rules his life. But generally consciousness is too preoccupied with the attainment of some beckoning goal to consider the nature of the spirit that determines its course. CW 8 - par 642

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When you are in the darkness you take the next thing, and that is a dream. And you can be sure that the dream is your nearest friend; the dream is the friend of those who are not guided anymore by the traditional truth and in consequence are isolated. CW 18 - par 673

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If we understand and feel that here in this life we already have a link with the infinite, desires and attitudes change. In the final analysis, we count for something only because of the essential we embody, and if we do not embody that, life is wasted. Memories, Dreams, Reflections. p. 325

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The patient must be alone if he is to find out what it is that supports him when he can no longer support himself. CW12 - par 32

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Knowing means seeing a thing in such a way that all can know it, and for me it means absolutely nothing if I a profess a knowledge which I alone possess... I therefore regard the proposition that belief is knowledge as absolutely misleading. Letters, Vol. II, p. 377

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One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child. CW17 - par 249

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One of the greatest obstacles to psychological understanding is the inquisitive desire to know whether the psychological factor adduced is "true" or "correct." If the description of it is not erroneous or false, then the factor is valid in itself and proves its validity by its very existence. One might as well ask if the duck-billed platypus is a "true" or "correct" invention of the Creator's will. CW8 - par 192

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Wednesday, May 18, 2011; 7:30 - 9:30PM

In the series Clinical Issues-For Clinicians Only
When a Patient Retreats:
Projective Identification and Pathological Defensive Organization
Presented by Sandra E. Fenster, Ph.D.

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Life is a flux, a flowing into the future, and not a stoppage or backwash. It is therefore not surprising that so many of the mythological saviors are child gods. CW9 - par 278

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The unborn work in the psyche of the artist is a force of nature that achieves its end either with tyrannical might or with the subtle cunning of nature herself, quite regardless of the personal fate of the man who is its vehicle. The creative urge lives and grows in him like a tree in the earth from which it draws its nourishment. We would do well, therefore to think of the creative process as living thing implanted in the human psyche. CW15 - par 115

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The archetype or primordial image might suitably be described as the instinct's perception of itself, or as the self-portrait of the instinct, in exactly the same way as consciousness is an inward perception of the objective life-process. CW8 - par 277

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How much "soul" is projected into the unknown in the world of external appearances is, of course, familiar to anyone acquainted with the natural science and natural philosophy of the ancients. It is, in fact, so much that we are absolutely incapable of saying how the world is constituted in itself--and always shall be, since we are obliged to convert physical events into psychic processes as soon as we want to say anything about knowledge. But who can guarantee that this conversion produces anything like an adequate "objective" picture of the world? CW9 - par 116

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Myth is pre-eminently a social phenomenon: it is told by the many and heard by the many. It gives the ultimately unimaginable religious experience an image, a form in which to express itself, and thus makes community life possible. Letters, Vol. II, p. 486

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In sleep, fantasy takes the form of dreams. But in waking life, we continue to dream beneath the threshold of consciousness, especially under the influence of repressed or other unconscious complexes. CW 16 - par 125

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When the summit of life is reached, when the bud unfolds and from the lesser the greater emerges, then, as Nietzsche says, "One becomes Two," and the greater figure which one always was but which remained invisible, appears to the lesser personality with the force of a revelation. He who is truly and hopelessly little will always drag the revelation of the greater down to the level of his littleness, and he will never understand that the day of judgment for his littleness has dawned. But the man who is inwardly great will know that the long expected friend of his soul, the immortal one, has now really come. CW 9 - par 217

Public Program

Wednesday, May 11, 2011; 07:30PM - 09:30PM

In the series Clinical Issues

The Freud-Jung Letters
Presented by David Eidenberg, Psy.D.

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The self, in its efforts at self-realization, reaches out beyond the ego-personality on all sides; because of its all-encompassing nature it is brighter and darker than the ego, and accordingly confronts it with problems which it would like to avoid. Either one's moral courage fails, or one's insight, or both, until in the end fate decides...you have become the victim of a decision made over your head or in defiance of the heart. From this we can see the numinous power of the self, which can hardly be experienced in any other way. For this reason the experience of the self is always a defeat for the ego. CW 14 - par 778

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Strictly speaking, projection is never made; it happens, it is simply there. In the darkness of anything external to me I find, without recognizing it as such, an interior or psychic life that is my own... Such projections repeat themselves whenever man tries to explore an empty darkness and involuntarily fills it with living forms. CW 12 - par 346

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The world into which we are born is brutal and cruel, and at the same time of divine beauty. Which element we think outweighs the other, whether meaninglessness or meaning, is a matter of temperament. If meaninglessness were absolutely preponderant, the meaningfulness of life would vanish to an increasing degree with each step in our development. But that is--or seems to me--not the case. Probably, as in all metaphysical questions, both are true: Life is--or has--meaning and meaninglessness. I cherish the anxious hope that meaning will preponderate and win the battle. Memories, Dreams Reflections, p. 358

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The man whose sun still moves round the earth is essentially different than the man whose earth is a satellite of the sun. Giordano Bruno's reflections on infinity where not in vain: they represent one of the most important beginnings of modern consciousness. The man whose cosmos hangs in the empyrean is different from one whose mind is illuminated by Kepler's vision. The man who is still dubious about the sum of twice two is different than the a priori truths of mathematics. In short, it is not a matter of indifference what sort of Weltanschauung (vision of the world) we possess, since not only do we create a picture of the world, but this picture retroactively changes us. CW 8 - par 696

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The psychology of the individual can never be exhaustively explained from himself alone: a clear recognition is needed of the way it is also conditioned by historical and environmental circumstances. His individual psychology is not merely a physiological, biological, or personal problem; it is also a contemporary problem. CW 6 - par 717

Public Program

Wednesday, May 04, 2011; 07:30PM - 09:30PM

In the series Clinical Issues

Freud and Jung:
Collaboration, Collision, and Falling Out

Presented by Joseph Aguayo, Ph.D.

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