Toqa

“I’m still fascinated by how our brains elaborates strategies and carries them out without revealing them. To say that it’s a matter of the unconscious seems to me approximate, maybe even hypocritical.”
― Elena Ferrante, The Lying Life of Adults

“It’s hard to get to know your unconscious because … it’s unconscious. However, thanks to projection, we can externalize our unconscious, and that then gives us the chance to interact with it and come to an understanding of it, and finally allow us to withdraw our projections and integrate them into our consciousness. We make sense of our unconscious via its projections, via what it latches onto in the world around us.”
― David Sinclair, Lucid Sex: Revolutionize Your Sex Life

“...Whoever goes into the mirror of the water will first see his own face[:] whoever goes to himself risks a confrontation with himself. [...]

Whoever looks into the water sees his own image, but behind it living creatures soon loom up.”
― C.G. Jung, The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious

“One sometimes feels that the unconscious is leading the way in accordance with a secret design. It is as if something is looking at me, something that I do not see but that sees me [...].”
― M.-L. von Franz