Carl Jung Neurosis Quotations

Neurosis is the natural by-product of pain avoidance.

Neurosis is an inner cleavage-the state of being at war with oneself.

The main interest of my work is not concerned with the treatment of neuroses but rather with the approach to the numinous. But the fact that the approach to the numinous is the real therapy, and inasmuch as you attain to the numinous experience you are released from the curse of pathology. Even the very disease takes on a numinous character.

About a third of my cases are suffering from no clinically definable neurosis, but from the senselessness and emptiness of their lives. This can be defined as the general neurosis of our times.

Neurosis is the suffering of a soul which has not discovered its meaning.