Joan Cheng

“when we imagine that we “know” someone, we have closed off the space to continue to be curious about that person’s infinite depths,”
― Barbara Stevens Sullivan, The Mystery of Analytical Work: Weavings from Jung and Bion

“When excessive kindness is expressed externally, the cruelty of which all humans are capable sinks down into the internal world. Cruelty eventually develops beyond the control of the ego and gains autonomy. In ordinary circumstances, the ego maintains a balance between kindness and cruelty: kindness – ego – cruelty. But superhuman kindness, like an angel, cannot be controlled by the ego. Some cue gets triggered, and it flips over. In the case of “The Black Cat,” the trigger was alcohol.”
― Iwao Akita, A Japanese Jungian Perspective on Mental Health and Culture: Wandering madness

“榮格寄給包立「誠摯的祝福」。榮格曾預言包立的婚姻「會使『集體黑暗面』到位”
― Arthur I. Miller, 數字與夢: 榮格心理學對一個物理學家的夢之分析

“Feeling is the ability to value: mood is being overtaken or possessed by the inner feminine. To feel is the sublime art of having a value structure and a sense of meaning—where one belongs, where one’s allegiance is, where one’s roots are. To mood (we are already in difficulty since there is no adequate term for being caught up in a mood) is to be in the grips of the feminine part of our nature, to be overwhelmed by an irrational element that plays havoc with a man’s outer life. The feminine side of a man is to connect him within the depths of his inner being and to make a bridge to his deepest self.”
― Robert A. Johnson, He: Understanding Masculine Psychology