You have a part in gods and devils, saviours and criminals.
Carl Jung, Collected Papers (1917), ch. XIV 'The Psychology of the Unconscious Processes', IX
You have a part in gods and devils, saviours and criminals.
Carl Jung, Collected Papers (1917), ch. XIV 'The Psychology of the Unconscious Processes', IX
What it means
Every human possibility, the best and the worst, lives in each of us. That is humbling in both directions. You are not a saint and not a monster, but you could act like either.
The source
"You have a part in gods and devils, saviours and criminals." Carl Jung said it in Collected Papers (1917), ch. XIV 'The Psychology of the Unconscious Processes', IX. Translated by Constance E. Long, 1917.
"We have just as much a part in gods and devils, saviours and criminals."Constance E. Long, 1917, Collected Papers (1917), ch. XIV 'The Psychology of the Unconscious Processes', IX. Text read at gutenberg.org.
Who said it
Carl Jung (1875–1961). Swiss psychiatrist who broke with Freud and founded analytical psychology. He mapped the persona, the shadow, the collective unconscious and the lifelong work of becoming yourself, which he called individuation. Our lines come only from his writings published before 1931, in our own translations from the German or in English translations of the time.
Questions
- What does "You have a part in gods and devils, saviours and criminals." mean?
- Every human possibility, the best and the worst, lives in each of us. That is humbling in both directions. You are not a saint and not a monster, but you could act like either.
- Who said "You have a part in gods and devils, saviours and criminals."?
- Carl Jung (1875–1961). Source: Collected Papers (1917), ch. XIV 'The Psychology of the Unconscious Processes', IX.
- What is the original wording?
- We have just as much a part in gods and devils, saviours and criminals (Constance E. Long, 1917). Translated by Constance E. Long, 1917.
- Is "You have a part in gods and devils, saviours and criminals." on a shirt?
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"You have a part in gods and devils, saviours and criminals." (Carl Jung, Collected Papers (1917), ch. XIV 'The Psychology of the Unconscious Processes', IX, trans. Constance E. Long, 1917). https://spartansurfers.com/quotes/you-have-a-part-in-gods-and-devils
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More from Carl Jung
- Your worst enemy lives inside your own chest.Two Essays (1928), I, ch. III 'The Other Point of View: The Will to Power'
- Only what is truly yourself has the power to heal.Two Essays (1928), II, Part I, ch. IV 'The Attempt to Free the Individuality from the Collective Psyche'
- Trade yourself for a mask and you will pay for it.Two Essays (1928), II, Part II, ch. II 'Anima and Animus'
- You and your job are two different things.Two Essays (1928), II, Part II, ch. II 'Anima and Animus'
- The persona is only a mask. At bottom, it is not real.Two Essays (1928), II, Part I, ch. III 'The Persona as a Part of the Collective Psyche'
- Some people come to believe they are their public face.Two Essays (1928), II, Part II, ch. II 'Anima and Animus'