Letter To Carl Alfred Meier (the president of the C. G. Jung Institute, Zurich) in (1956)
“[C]hoice in many facets of our life has gone from implicit and often psychologically unreal to explicit and psychologically very real.”
The Paradox of Choice (2004)
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Source: Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy (1958), Chapter Eight, Nietzsche, p. 164
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Source: Principles of Gestalt Psychology, 1935, p. 22. ( Chapter 1 https://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/ge/koffka.htm, online at marxists.org)
Context: Psychology is a very unsatisfactory science. Comparing the vast body of systematised and recognised facts in physics with those in psychology one will doubt the advisability of teaching the latter to anybody who does not intend to become a professional psychologist, one might even doubt the advisability of training professional psychologists. But when one considers the potential contribution which psychology can make to our understanding of the universe, one's attitude may be changed. Science becomes easily divorced from life. The mathematician needs an escape from the thin air of his abstractions, beautiful as they are; the physicist wants to revel in sounds that are soft, mellow, and melodious, that seem to reveal mysteries which are hidden under the curtain of waves and atoms and mathematical equations; and even the biologist likes to enjoy the antics of his dog on Sundays unhampered by his weekday conviction that in reality they - are but chains of machine-like reflexes
“The real is very real to him, the unreal even more so.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
Source: Why Men Are the Way They Are (1988), p. 371.
“Architecture and psychology suddenly become very close.”
places.designobserver.com http://places.designobserver.com/feature/an-interview-with-jacques-herzog/32118/.
Interview with Jean Claude Bringuier (1969)
Source: Principles of Physiological Psychology, 1904, p. 5