„Sotva se nás nevědomí jen dotkne, a už jsme jím – stáváme se nevědomi sebe sama. To je ono prastaré nebezpečí, instinktivně známé a obávané primitivním člověkem, který osamocen stojí tak blízko k Plérómatu. Jeho vědomí je dosud nejisté, sotva se drží na nohou. Je doposud dětinské, sotva se vynořilo z prapůvodních vodstev. Vlna nevědomí se přes něj může kdykoli převalit a on pak rázem zapomene, kým byl, a dělá prapodivné věci. Primitivové se právě proto bojí nezvladatelných emocí, neboť se pod jejich tíhou láme vědomí, čímž je dán průchod posedlosti. Veškeré úsilí člověka se tudíž vždy zaměřovalo na konsolidaci vědomí. V tom vězel smysl rituálu a dogmat; ony byly přehradami a hradbami, které měly za úkol zadržet nebezpečí nevědomí, nástrahy duše.”
“Naturally, a doctor must be familiar with the so-called “methods.” But he must guard against falling into any specific, routine approach. In general one must guard against theoretical assumptions. … In my analyses they play no part. I am unsystematic very much by intention. We need a different language for every patient.”
“Thoroughly unprepared, we take the step into the afternoon of life. Worse still, we take this step with the false presupposition that our truths and our ideals will serve us as hitherto. But we cannot live the afternoon of life according to the program of life’s morning, for what was great in the morning will be little at evening and what in the morning was true, at evening will have become a lie.”
“Therefore anyone who wants to know the human psyche will learn next to nothing from experimental psychology. He would be better advised to abandon exact science, put away his scholar’s gown, bid farewell to his study, and wander with human heart through the world. There, in the horrors of prisons, lunatic asylums and hospitals, in drab suburban pubs, in brothels and gambling hells, … he would reap richer stores of knowledge…”
“The psychological rule says that when an inner situation is not made conscious, it happens outside, as fate. That is to say, when the individual remains undivided and does not become conscious of his inner opposite, the world must perforce act out the conflict and be torn into opposing halves.”
Vlado Šolc
