I am looking forward enormously to getting back to the sea again, where the overstimulated psyche can recover in the presence of that infinite peace and spaciousness.

The foundation of all mental illness is the unwillingness to experience legitimate suffering.

Every man carries within himself the eternal image of woman, not the image of this or that particular woman, but a definite feminine image. This image is fundamentally unconscious, a hereditary factor of primordial origin.

The experience of the self is always a defeat for the ego.

I have frequently seen people become neurotic when they content themselves with inadequate or wrong answers to the questions of life.

Wherever an inferiority complex exists, there is a good reason for it.

The self is defined psychologically as the psychic totality of the individual. Anything that a [person] postulates as being a greater totality than [oneself] can become a symbol of the self. For this reason the symbol of the self is not always as total as the definition would require.