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“Dreams are, after all, compensations for the conscious attitude.”
― Memories, Dreams, Reflections
― Memories, Dreams, Reflections
“In cases of neurosis and psychosis, the unconscious attempted to compensate the one-sided conscious attitude. The unbalanced individual defends himself against this, and the opposites become more polarized. The corrective impulses that present themselves in the language of the unconscious should be the beginning of a healing process, but the form in which they break through makes them unacceptable to consciousness.”
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“T|he personal pronoun ‘I’ designates the person who identifies his or herself with a specific ideal image. Thus the ego is what is represented by the subject of the statement.”
― Subjectivity and Otherness: A Philosophical Reading of Lacan
― Subjectivity and Otherness: A Philosophical Reading of Lacan
“The one eye of the Godhead is blind, the one ear of the Godhead is deaf, the order of its being is crossed by chaos. So be patient with the crippledness of the world and do not overvalue its consummate beauty.”
― The Red Book: Liber Novus
― The Red Book: Liber Novus
“There are as many archetypes as there are typical situations in life. Endless repetition has engraved these experiences into our psychic constitution, not in the form of images filled with content, but at first only as forms without content, representing merely the possibility of a certain type of perception and action. When a situation occurs which corresponds to a given archetype, that archetype becomes activated and a compulsiveness appears, which, like an instinctual drive, gains its way against all reason and will, or else produces a conflict of pathological dimensions, that is to say, a neurosis.”
― The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious
― The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious
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