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Top Ten Bogus Jung Quotations

by Stephen Parker, Ph.D (Article Selection and Commentary) on December 7, 2010

One of my biggest complaints about much of the Jungian material on the Web is that it is un-sourced – it is passed on and on, without a reference to its origins.


With the idea that if you can’t beat them, join them, I thought I would contribute my own Jungian statements, that Carl Jung didn’t make.


Well, actually he did make one of the following statements. It’s the exception that proves the rule(!) Can you guess which one?






Without the study of mythology it is impossible to understand the origins of the human psyche.





It is only after we have wrestled with the shadow, day and night, that we can finally obtain a small glimmer of wholeness.





The most dangerous psychological mistake is the projection of the shadow on to others; this is the root of almost all conflicts.





No man should ever argue with a woman’s animus; it lessens the man and diminishes the woman.





Synchronicity does not just happen; it happens when the situation in the Unconscious is reflected in outer reality.





Once upon an archetypal time there were three symbolic bears — a papa bear, a mama bear, and a baby bear.





A particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror; as a rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment.





One of the few regrets in my life is that I did not discover the importance of alchemy soon enough.





The complexity of the Unconscious is beyond the grasp of the human mind.





It is only when one looks deep within one’s soul that it is possible to find true meaning.




Top Ten Tidbits About Carl Jung

by Stephen Parker, Ph.D (Article Selection and Commentary) on December 6, 2010

So much on the Internet is ” Top Ten Whatevers” etc.


This Jungcurrents blog is even a “Top Ten Psychoanalytic Blog.“  Seriously. There is even a badge to prove it!  (“Badges, we don’t need to stinking badges.”)


Thought this blog should have some Top Ten Stuff also.

1) Carl was probably a third generation bastard: his grandfather was allegedly the illegitimate son of Goethe.

2) Carl’s first dream was of an “enormous turd crashing through a shiny cathedral roof.”

3) Carl avoided school for six months when he was twelve by fainting when he was supposed to go to school or do his homework.

4) Carl married to the second richest woman in Switzerland

5) Freud fainted in 1912 and Carl carried him to a couch.

6) Carl recommended spirituality as a cure for alcoholism and had an indirect role in the creation of Alcoholics Anonymous.

7) Carl was recruited by John Foster Dulles to be a spy in WWII. (He was #488.)


8) Carl was one of the people on the cover of the Beatles Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.

9) The cover of The Police’s final album Synchronicity which was named after Carl Jung’s theory.

10) Carl’s alleged last words were, “Let’s have a really good red wine tonight.”

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