(?)
Quotes are added by the Goodreads community and are not verified by Goodreads. (Learn more)
C.G. Jung

“Generally certain symptoms appear, among them a peculiar use of language: one wants to speak forcefully in order to impress one's opponent, so one employs a special, "bombastic" style full of neologisms which might be described as "power-words." This symptom is observable not only in the psychiatric clinic but also among certain modern philosophers, and, above all, whenever anything unworthy of belief has to be insisted on in the teeth of inner resistance: the language swells up, overreaches itself, sprouts grotesque words distinguished only by their needless complexity. The word is charged with the task of achieving what cannot be done by honest means.”

C.G. Jung, Alchemical Studies
Read more quotes from C.G. Jung


Share this quote:
Share on Twitter

Friends Who Liked This Quote

To see what your friends thought of this quote, please sign up!


This Quote Is From

Alchemical Studies (Collected Works 13) Alchemical Studies by C.G. Jung
367 ratings, average rating, 8 reviews
Open Preview

Browse By Tag