Carl Jung Quotes


The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.


Citations

Jung, C. G. Psychological Types. Translated by R. F. C. Hull, Princeton University Press, 1971, p. 123.

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Carl Jung
Carl Jung
  • Born: July 26, 1875
  • Died: June 6, 1961
  • Nationality: Swiss
  • Profession: Psychologist

Carl Gustav Jung, was a Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who founded analytical psychology. Jung's work has been influential in the fields of psychiatry, anthropology, archaeology, literature, philosophy and religious studies. Jung worked as a research scientist at the famous Burghölzli hospital, under Eugen Bleuler. During this time, he came to the attention of Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis. The two men conducted a lengthy correspondence and collaborated, for a while, on a joint vision of human psychology.