It's apparent that we can't proceed any further without a name for this institutionalized garrulousness, this psychological patter..., this need to catalogue the ego's condition. Let's call it psychobabble, this spirit which now tyrannizes conversation in the seventies.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... in doing our psychology, we want to attribute mental states fully opaquely because it's the fully opaque reading which tells u...s what the agent has in mind, and it's what the agent has in mind that causes his behavior.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Fundamentally the male artist approximates more to the psychology of woman, who, biologically speaking, is a purely creative being... and whose personality has been as mysterious and unfathomable to the man as the artist has been to the average person.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Psychology has nothing to say about what women are really like, what they need and what they want, essentially because psychology ...does not know.... this failure is not limited to women; rather, the kind of psychology that has addressed itself to how people act and who they are has failed to understand in the first place why people act the way they do, and certainly failed to understand what might make them act differently.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Children don't read to find their identity, to free themselves from guilt, to quench the thirst for rebellion or to get rid of ali...enation. They have no use for psychology.... They still believe in God, the family, angels, devils, witches, goblins, logic, clarity, punctuation, and other such obsolete stuff.... When a book is boring, they yawn openly. They don't expect their writer to redeem humanity, but leave to adults such childish illusions.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Central to Jungian psychology is the concept of "individuation," the process whereby a person discovers and evolves his Self, as o...pposed to his ego. The ego is a persona, a mask created and demanded by everyday social interaction, and, as such, it constitutes the center of our conscious life, our understanding of ourselves through the eyes of others. The Self, on the other hand, is our true center, our awareness of ourselves without outside interference, and it is developed by bringing the conscious and unconscious parts of our minds into harmony.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Education [is not] a discipline at all. Half vocational, half an emptiness dressed up in garments borrowed from philosophy, psycho...logy, literature.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The mystic purchases a moment of exhilaration with a lifetime of confusion; and the confusion is infectious and destructive. It is... confusing and destructive to try and explain anything in terms of anything else, poetry in terms of psychology.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Unlike Freud, Jung did not believe that a dream is a mask for a meaning already known but deceitfully withheld from the conscious ...mind. In his view, dreams were communication, ideas expressed not always straightforwardly, but in the best way possible within the limits of the medium. Dreaming, in Jung's psychology, is a constructive process.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »