Iosif-Ionel Ungureanu

“This feeling that Jung had that if man lived his life religiously, if he lived his life symbolically, then it was almost as if what the theologians called God and my Zulus called the first spirit, the first spirit had passed over some of his power and some of his responsibilities to the human being and that the human being had a God-like task to perform in creation. And the extent to which he performed it, he derived his meaning.”
― Laurens van der Post

“The fact that someone understands is enough, even though one cannot understand oneself then the temperature drops and a certain quietness comes, and then perhaps the patient may also understand. Archetypal contents are sometimes far away and if the patient is not drawn to them in these terms you cannot get the meaning across, but the feeling that somebody else understands has a calming effect.”
― Marie-Louise von Franz, The Psychological Meaning of Redemption Motifs in Fairytales

“The aim of the individuation process is not to overcome one's psychology, but to become familiar with it and this in itself leads to a change in attitude towards oneself, as well as others.”
― Daryl Sharp, The Secret Raven: Conflict and Transformation in the Life of Franz Kafka

“Such strong resistance to "psychology" usually indicates the unconscious need for it; that is, something unconscious is pressing to be acknowledged, but the threatened ego brings forth whatever rationalizations and defenses are necessary to keep the unknown at bay rather than relinquish the illusion that one is "master in one's own house.”
― Daryl Sharp, The Secret Raven: Conflict and Transformation in the Life of Franz Kafka