C. G. Jung (1875–1961)

I am unsystematic, very much by intention. To my mind, in dealing with individuals, only individual understanding will do. We need a different language for every patient (p. 253)

This is where those aberrations begin, the first of which is to dominate everything by the intellect. This serves the secret purpose of placing both doctor and patient at a safe distance from the archetypal effect and thus from real experience, and of substituting for psychic reality an apparently secure, artificial, but merely two-dimensional conceptual world in which the reality of life is well covered up by so-called clear concepts. Experience is stripped of its substance, and instead mere names are substituted, which are henceforth put in the place of reality. No one has any obligations to a concept; that is what is so agreeable about conceptuality - it promises protection from experience. (p.167)

Numinous experience elevates and humiliates simultaneously. (p. 177)

For as long as we do not understand their meaning, such fantasies are a diabolical mixture of the sublime and the ridiculous. (p. 202)

I studiously avoided all such ‘holy men.’ I did because I had to make do with my own truth, not accept from others what I could not attain on my own. (p.305)