I have always said to my pupils: "Learn as much as you can about symbolism; then forget it when you are analyzing a dream."

The psychic depths are nature, and nature is creative life.

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

If you think along the lines of Nature then you think properly." from the video "Carl Jung speaks about death

A criminal becomes a popular figure because he unburdens in no small degree the consciences of his fellow man, for now they know once more where evil is to be found.

A patient doesn't select his physical ailments. They happen to him. You could just as well ask when you are eaten by a crocodile, 'How did you select that crocodile?'. Nonsense. He has selected you. The patient doesn't even select the symptoms unconsciously. That is an extraordinary exaggeration of the subject to say he was choosing such things. They get him.

One of the most difficult tasks men can perform, however much others may despise it, is the invention of good games.