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“In order to make the language of dreams understood, we use many parallels from the psychology of primitive races as well as from historical symbolism. This is because dreams originate in the unconscious, which contains the residual potentialities of function of all preceding epochs of evolution.”
― Carl Jung

“Failure is the price we pay for standards and, because mediocrity has consequences both real and harsh, standards are necessary.”
― Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos

“En la vida se es actor o público, timonel o galeote. Es tan doloroso pasar del timón al remo, como salir del escenario para ocupar una butaca, aunque ésta sea de primera fila. El que ha conocido el aplauso no sabe resignarse a la oscuridad; ésa es la parte más cruel de toda preeminencia fundada en el capricho ajeno o en aptitudes físicas transitorias. El público oscila con la moda; el físico se gasta. La fama de un orador, de un esgrimista o de un comediante, sólo dura lo que una juventud; la voz, las estocadas y los gestos se acaban alguna vez, dejando lo que en el bello decir dantesco representa el dolor sumo: recordar en la miseria el tiempo feliz.
Para estos triunfadores accidentales, el instante en que se disipa su error debería ser el último de la vida. Volver a la realidad es una suprema tristeza.”
― José Ingenieros, El hombre mediocre

“Cases are found of people apparently normal, showing no special neurotic symptoms—perhaps themselves doctors instructing others—priding themselves on their normality, models of good upbringing, with particularly normal views and habits of life, yet whose normality is an artificial compensation for a latent psychosis. Of course these cases do not often confront the institutional psychiatrist. Those in this condition do not themselves suspect it. A certain presentiment perhaps finds indirect expression in the individual's special interest in psychology and psychiatry, if he is drawn to such things as the moth to the light. Since the analytical technique brings the unconscious into evidence it destroys in these cases the salutary compensation that existed, and the unconscious breaks out in the form of uncontrollable phantasies and consequent conditions of excitement, which under certain circumstances may lead directly to a psychical disorder, and even eventually to suicide.”
― Carl Jung