I'm the result of upbringing, class, race, gender, social prejudices, and economics. So I'm a victim again. A result.

It's not enough just to be a mother. It's not only the social pressure on mothers by certain kinds of feminism and other sources. There is also economic pressure on them.

Pathology is not a problem to be solved, but the soul's way of working on itself.

The word power has such a generally negative implication in our society. What are people talking about? Are they talking about muscles, or control?

I don't think anything changes until ideas change. The usual American viewpoint is to believe that something is wrong with the person.

Why do we focus so intensely on our problems? What draws us to them? Why are they so attractive? They have the magnet power of love: somehow we desire our problems; we are in love with them much as we want to get rid of them . . . Problems sustain us -- maybe that's why they don't go away. What would a life be without them? Completely tranquilized and loveless . . . There is a secret love hiding in each problem

Beauty has never been an important topic in the writings of the major psychologists. In fact, for Jung, aesthetics is a weak, early stage of development. He follows the Germanic view that ethics is more important than aesthetics, and he draws a stark contrast between the two. Freud may have written about literature a bit, but an aesthetic sensitivity is not part of his psychology.