Joan Cheng

“We shall explore the central role of relatedness in emotional health in Chapters 4 and 5, when we look at the structural and dynamic aspects of our anti-related energies.”
― 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

“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

“包立的曼荼羅中，能量和時空、因果關係和共時性，是互補又各自獨立的，就像光明和黑暗以及生與死。這兩者都是不可或缺的，彼此之間的張力為現實提供了物質意義。”
― Arthur I. Miller, 數字與夢: 榮格心理學對一個物理學家的夢之分析