Jolande Jacobi > Quotes

“We see the man who blindly succumbs to a certain type of woman--how frequently a highly cultivated intellectual, for example, will become hopelessly entangled with the worst sort of strumpet because his feminine, emotional side is utterly undifferentiated; and equally familiar is the woman who for no apparent reason ties herself to a swindler or adventurer.”
― Jolande Jacobi

“The development of the shadow runs parallel to that of the ego; qualities which the ego does not need or cannot make use of are set aside or repressed, and thus they play little or no part in the conscious life of the individual. Accordingly, a child has no real shadow, but his shadow becomes more pronounced as his ego grows in stability and range. And because in the course of our lives we are constantly having to inhibit or repress one quality or another, the shadow can never be fully raised to consciousness. Nevertheless it is important that at least its most salient traits should be made conscious...”
― Jolande Jacobi, The Psychology of C.G. Jung

“يجب على المريض، مهما يكن اضطرابه الداخلي ألا يعترض حياته السوية، وعمله اليومي وكأن حياته هي يوم واحد. لذا، كان إحتمال بقاء التوتر، والقدرة على الصمود في وسط الاضطراب النفسي، قضيتين تزودان المرء بإمكانية الحصول على نظام نفسي.يررى يونغ أن النظرة السائدة على نحو واسع بأن التطوير النفسي يؤدي في نهايته إلى حالة ينعدم فيها الألم والمعاناة، هي نظرية زائفة تماماً. هذا، لأن الألم؛ أو المعاناة، والصراع هما جزء من الحياة. ويجب ألا نعتبرهما وكأنهما "إعتلال"؛ إنهما الميزتان الخاصتان بالوجود الإنساني بكامله، والقطب المقابل الطبيعي للسعادة.”
― Jolande Jacobi, علم النفس اليونغي

“…when a voice is heard in a dream it is a most meaningful occurrence. Dr. Jung identified the appearance of a voice identified the appearance of a voice in dreams with an intervention of the Self. It stands for knowledge that has its roots in the collective knowledge of the psyche. What the voice says cannot be disputed.”
― Jolande Jacobi

“Any obstruction of the natural processes of development... or getting stuck on a level unsuited to one's age; takes its revenge, if not immediately, then later on the onset of the second half of life, in the form of serious crises, nervous breakdowns, and all manner of physical and psychic sufferings. Mostly they are accompanied by vague feelings of guilt, by tormenting pangs of conscience, often not understood, in face of which the individual is helpless. He knows he is not guilty of any bad deed, he has not given way to an illicit impulse, and yet he is plagued by uncertainty, discontent, despair, and above all by anxiety - a constant, indefinable anxiety. And in truth he must usually be pronounced "guilty". His guilt does not lie in the fact that he has a neurosis, but in the fact that, knowing he has one, he does nothing to set about curing it.”
― Jolande Jacobi, The Way of Individuation

“تعد الشخصية، بوصفها التحقيق الكامل لكياننا الكلي، مثالاً يصعب بلوغه. لكن صعوبة البلوغ أو التحقيق ليست حجة تتخذ ضد المثال. لأن المُثُل هي معالم، وليست هدفاً.”
― Jolande Jacobi, علم النفس اليونغي

“الإنسان القادر على الموافقة على نحو واعٍ مع صوته الداخلي يصبح شخصية.”
― Jolande Jacobi, علم النفس اليونغي

“The physicist Wolfgang Pauli has pointed out that, due to new discoveries, our idea of the evolution of life requires a revision that might take into account an area of interrelation between the unconscious psycho and biological processes. Until recently it was assumed that the mutation of species happened at random and that a selection took place by means of which the "meaningful," well-adapted varieties survived, and the other disappeared. But modern evolutionists have pointed out that the selections of such mutations by pure chance would have taken much longer than the known age of our planet allows... Jung's concept of synchronicity may be helpful here, for it could throw light upon the occurrence of certain rare "border-phenomena," or exceptional events; thus it might explain how "meaningful" adaptations and mutations could happen in less time than that required by entirely random mutations. Today we know of many instances in which meaningful "chance" events have occurred when an archetype is activated. For example, the history of science contains many cases of simultaneous invention or discovery.”
― Jolande Jacobi, Man and His Symbols

“The Negro is for some people the archetypal image of "the dark primal creature" and thus a personification of certain contents of the unconscious. Perhaps this is one reason why the NEgro is so often rejected and feared by people of the white race. In him the white man sees his living counterpart, his hidden, dark side brought before his eyes. (This is just what most people try to avoid; they want to cut it off and repress it.) White men project onto the Negro the primitive drives, the archaic powers, the uncontrolled instincts that they do not want to admit in themselves, of which they are unconscious, and that they therefore designate as the corresponding qualities of other people.”
― Jolande Jacobi, Man and His Symbols

“This had led many people, above all theologians, to the mistake of thinking that with his concept of the Self Jung wanted to give God himself a name, although time and again in his writings he has emphasized that his statements about the Self refer only to the manifestation of the God-image and of the God-concept in the human psyche. "At all events," Jung says, "the soul must contain in itself the faculty of relationship to God, i.e., a correspondence, otherwise a connection could never come about. This correspondence is, in psychological terms, the archetype of the God-image. Since God-images are the products of religious fantasy they are unavoidably anthropomorphic and therefore, like every symbol, capable of psychological elucidation. But psychology can make no statements about the nature of God. On the other hand, it can very well observe and describe the phenomenology of his "reflection" in the human psyche, and explore it scientifically.”
― Jolande Jacobi, The Way of Individuation