Freud, Jung thought, had been a great discoverer of facts about the mind, but far too inclined to leave the solid ground of "criti...cal reason and common sense." Freud for his part criticized Jung for being gullible about occult phenomena and infatuated with Oriental religions; he viewed with sardonic and unmitigated skepticism Jung's defense of religious feelings as an integral element in mental health. For Freud, religion was a psychological need projected onto culture, the child's feeling of helplessness surviving in adults, to be analyzed rather than admired.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The discovery of the North Pole is one of those realities which could not be avoided. It is the wages which human perseverance pay...s itself when it thinks that something is taking too long. The world needed a discoverer of the North Pole, and in all areas of social activity, merit was less important here than opportunity.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Now their separate characters are briefly these. The man's power is active, progressive, defensive. He is eminently the doer, the ...creator, the discoverer, the defender. His intellect is for speculation and invention; his energy for adventure, for war, and for conquest, wherever war is just, wherever conquest necessary. But the woman's power is for rule, not for battle,--and her intellect is not for invention or creation, but for sweet order ing, arrangement, and decision. She sees the qualities of things, their claims, and their places. Her great function is Praise: she enters into no contest, but infallibly adjudges the crown of contest. By her office and place, she is protected from all danger and temptation.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Columbus has sailed westward of these isles by the mariner's compass, but neither he nor his successors have found them. We are no... nearer than Plato was. The earnest seeker and hopeful discoverer of this New World always haunts the outskirts of his time, and walks through the densest crowd uninterrupted, and, as it were, in a straight line.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If we could produce one or two more Madame Curies, that would accomplish far more for the advancement of women than any amount of ...agitation, argument and legislation.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »