There are cases where psychoanalysis works worse than anything else. But who said that psychoanalysis was to be applied always and everywhere.

We can keep from a child all knowledge of earlier myths, but we cannot take from him the need for mythology.

One cannot live without inconsistency.

Do not compare, do not measure. No other way is like yours. All other ways deceive and tempt you. You must fulfill the way that is in you.

Archetypes, in spite of their conservative nature, are not static but in a continuous dramatic flux. Thus the self as a monad or continuous unit would be dead. But it lives inasmuch as it splits and unites again. There is no energy without opposites!

From the living fountain of instinct flows everything that is creative; hence the unconscious is not merely conditioned by history, but is the very source of the creative impulse. It is like nature herself - prodigiously conservative, and yet transcending her own historical conditions in her acts of creation.

I had to make a confession of faith in stone. That was the beginning of the tower, the house I built for myself at Bollingen.