6 Quotes & Sayings By Marielouise Von Franz

Dr. Marie-Louise von Franz is a renowned contemporary author, contributor to the field of depth psychology, and an internationally recognized authority on the development of the unconscious. She was born in Austria and educated at the University of Vienna. Her work has been translated into twenty languages and has been cited by leading researchers in a wide range of fields including art, mythology, science, literature, and religion Read more

Her books have been widely hailed as classics in the field.

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Numbers, furthermore as archetypal structural constants of the collective unconscious, possess a dynamic, active aspect which is especially important to keep in mind. It is not what we can do with numbers but what they do to our consciousness that is essential. MarieLouise Von Franz
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Number ... should not be understood solely as a construction of consciousness, but also as an archetype and thus as a constituent of nature both without and within. MarieLouise Von Franz
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My God, these Feeling types! ... Sensitive people are just tyrannical people - everybody else has to adapt to them. MarieLouise Von Franz
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People who have a creative side and do not live it out are most disagreeable clients. They make a mountain out of a molehill, fuss about unnecessary things, are too passionately in love with somebody who is not worth so much attention, and so on. There is a kind of floating charge of energy in them which is not attached to its right object and therefore tends to apply exaggerated dynamism to the wrong situation. MarieLouise Von Franz
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It is a fact that if an impulse from one or the other sphere comes up and is not lived out, then it goes back down and tends to develop anti-human qualities. What should have been a human impulse becomes a tiger-like impulse. For instance, a man has a feeling impulse to say something positive to someone and he blocks it off through some inhibition. He might then dream that he had a spontaneous feeling impulse on the level of a child and his conscious purpose had smashed it. The human is still there, but as a hurt child. Should he do that habitually for five years, he would no longer dream of a child who had been hurt but of a zoo full of raging wild animals in a cage. An impulse which is driven back loads up with energy and becomes inhuman. This fact, according to Dr. Jung, demonstrates the independent existence of unconscious. MarieLouise Von Franz