Carl Jung

1875–1961 · Swiss psychiatrist · founder of analytical psychology

Carl Gustav Jung was born on 26 July 1875 in Kesswil, Switzerland, and died at Küsnacht on 6 June 1961. A psychiatrist and psychotherapist, he founded the school of analytical psychology as a system distinct from Freudian psychoanalysis, built around individuation — the lifelong differentiation of the self out of conscious and unconscious material — along with the collective unconscious, archetypes and synchronicity. He was also a prodigious correspondent, and a great deal of the most quotable Jung comes not from his books but from private letters, collected and published only after his death.

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6 quotes we’ve traced to Carl Jung

“Every individual is an exception to the rule”

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“The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed”

Verified

“Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes”

Verified

“I must also have a dark side if I am to be whole”

Attributed

“Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you”

Attributed

“The deep critical thinker has become the misfit of the world. This is not a coincidence. To maintain order and control you must isolate the intellectual, the sage, the philosopher, the savant before their ideas awaken people”

Disputed

Not actually Carl Jung

Often misattributed to Carl Jung

Famous lines widely pinned on Carl Jung that we’ve traced to someone else.

“Called or uncalled, God will be present”

actually An ancient Delphic oracle, via Erasmus

“Creative minds are rarely tidy”

actually John W. Gardner

“The deep critical thinker has become the misfit of the world. This is not a coincidence. To maintain order and control you must isolate the intellectual, the sage, the philosopher, the savant before their ideas awaken people”

Unknown — credited to Carl Jung, not verified

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