Life is a Souvenir of Memories Everyone can be a masterpiece of their own piece of work...	We are not only that which we imagine ourselves to be We are not only that which we imagine ourselves to be—we are also the effect that we have on other people...	A life of two halves… One might characterize the whole first half of life as a gigantic mistake, as necessary as it is unavoidable...
The inner field of the ‘I’ The inner field of the I, which we can imagine as a hollow sphere, is something plastic in which experiences have imprinted themselves...	Anima & animus in fairy tales ln many instances, to escape the unconscious in a certain aspect is just as heroic a deed as conquering the dragon...	Dispelling the ghosts of our parents The psyche that has lived all its life in fear of not being nourished by the mother, or of being snuffed out by the father...
Anima/Animus "The foundation of man's search for the anima is to find his own inherited image of the inner woman and the function of Eros or relationship...	The inferior function Any attempt to equalize the one-sided differentiation of the man of our times has to reckon very seriously with an acceptance of the inferior...	Projections… If the individuality is unconscious...
Participation mystique Every entrance into an archetypal fields leads to an 'abaissement du niveau mental'...	The exchange: conversations with yourself We know that practically every one has not only the peculiarity, but also the faculty, of holding a conversation with himself...	The inner totality In order to bring the individuation process into reality...
New points of view In principle new points of view are not as a rule discovered in territory that is already known...	Tension of opposites Holding the tension of opposites is an uncomfortable...	Only separated things can unite Only separated things can unite...
Midlife… "The middle period of life is a time of enormous psychological importance...	Psychological compensation In contrast to the subjectivism of the conscious mind the unconscious is objective...	Befriending the body "Trauma victims cannot recover until they become familiar with and befriend the sensations in their bodies...
The family triangle "Freud developed the idea of the Oedipal triangle in a very specific context...	Tears & rain: our inner emotional weather Jan's chronic feelings of anxiety and sadness are natural, the product of an intact mood system...	When animus and anima meet When animus and anima meet, the animus draws his sword of power and the anima ejects her poison of illusion and seduction...
Emotional engagement in the analytic process You surely know that the understanding of psychoanalytic truths is in direct proportion to the progress one has made in oneself...	Happiness… You're going to realize it one day...	Childhood humiliation and family power struggles "All my narcissistic patients have had the experience of being deeply humiliated in childhood by parents who used power as a means of control...
We are episodes in an experience greater than ourselves The race flows through us, the race is the drama and we are the incidents...	The person with the difficult temperament People whose own temperaments offer problems are often neurotic...	The human connection is both the means and the end Transference provides the impulse necessary for understanding and translating the language of the unconscious...
The unconscious seeks the redemptive resolution of its opposites in human consciousness In the last resort it is highly improbable that there could ever be a therapy that got rid of all difficulties...	The more impassioned woman Although the introverted consciousness is naturally aware of external conditions...	The heart of a dreams meaning While learning to understand the language of dreams is an art form that takes years to master...
What is small by day is big at night What is small by day is big at night...	The Matsuyama Mirror "I have brought you a very pretty thing,"...	What is Psychoanalysis? From the Freud Museum London Psychoanalysis is a theory of the mind and a method of helping people in mental distress...
Why does psychotherapy work? - The three pillars of psychological flexibility The Most Important Skill for Mental Health - 54,633 studies point to three pillars of psychological flexibility...	The ‘secret’ to discovering your consciousness I don’t think self-realization is the moment where you’re like...	The shadow making process We all are born whole and let us hope...
The image of the mother & father as archetypes There is inherent in the archetype...	We must meet & confront our wounds… We must meet and confront our wounds and our shadows...	Deep rage & the inner child "In every adult there lurks a child - an eternal child...
An alternative understanding of the persona Persona roles are often thought of as "masks"...	Self-criticism as an introspective activity "Whenever you are about to find fault with someone, ask yourself the following question:...	Reframing trauma If trauma is the fact that you were abused as a child...
Healing the child within the man The child-within-the-man can best be healed by caring for a child who is to become a man...	The worst decision of all The people I knew who finished their undergraduate degrees or trade programs were better for it...	She let go… She let go...
The power to choose Question: "What about all those people who...