Without a doubt, Carl Jung is one of the most famous psychologists in all of history. His ideas invade social networks and we have chosen 25 phrases from Carl Jung that are essential to understand his theory.

He father of depth psychology, Carl Jung has left essential phrases for history. “You are what you do, not what you say you are going to do.” Surely you had already read it, although what you probably didn’t know is that it was said by this Swiss psychologist who gave so much importance to dreams and who spoke for the first time about the collective unconscious.

Broadly speaking, it could be said that Carl Jung’s collective unconscious is a dimension beyond the consciousness common to all people. And hand in hand with this concept it is essential to talk about the archetypessince for the Swiss psychologist there were universal behavioral patterns that resided in this collective unconscious. That is, for Carl Jung, the innate personality of each person responds to one or more of his 12 archetypes: the innocent, the friend, the hero…

Freud: From friend to… enemy?

If there is something essential that should be known about the life of Carl Jung, it is his friendship with Sigmund Freud. His interest in the world of dreams brought him closer to the father of psychoanalysis, but over time, Their different points of view caused the relationship to break down.. As a consequence, Carl Jung was expelled from the then International Psychoanalytic Society. And Freud did not share those phrases and theories about the collective unconscious, since for him the unconscious was something personal that was marked by early experiences.

No matter how many differences there were between them, they are both great figures in psychology. Each one with their contributions, with which you may agree more or less, have left phrases that are already part of the collective memory. On this occasion we collect 25 essential Carl Jung phrases.