4 Quotes & Sayings By Ml Von Franz

M.L. von Franz (born Maria Lieselotte Franconia, 1906–1993) was a German psychologist and psychotherapist who became famous for her discoveries about the role of the unconscious in human behavior. Her work on trauma and dissociation has been particularly influential. She is known as the "Queen of Jungian Psychology."

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...rather than ask why something happened (i.e. what caused it), Jung asked: What did it happen for? This same tendency appears in physics: Many modern physicists are now looking more for "connections" in nature than for causal laws (determinism). M.L. Von Franz
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..in microphysics the observer interferes with the experiment in a way that can't be measured and that therefore can't be eliminated. No natural laws can be formulated, saying "such-and-such will happen in every case." All the microphysicist can say is "such-and-such is, according to statistical probability, likely to happen." This naturally represents a tremendous problem for our classical physical thinking. It requires a consideration, in a scientific experiment, of the mental outlook of the participant-observer: It could this be said that scientists can no longer hope to describe any aspects or qualities of outer objects in a completely independent, "objective" manner. M.L. Von Franz
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As soon as we notice that certain types of event "like" to cluster together at certain times, we begin to understand the attitude of the Chinese, whose theories of medicine, philosophy, and even building are based on a "science" of meaningful coincidences. The classical Chinese texts did not ask what causes what, but rather what "likes" to occur with what. M.L. Von Franz