Carl Jung - Shrinking away from death is something...

The relevance of the death instinct isn't restricted to behaviour that is manifestly self-destructive. The death instinct is also expressed across a spectrum of mental states characterised by passivity and inertia. These states can be construed as small resistances and oppositions to vitality, and they seem particularly prevalent in the modern worl

En lisant ces lignes, comment ne pas penser aussi à Nietzsche qui écrivait dans Le Gai Savoir : « Je veux même, en toutes circonstances, n’être plus qu’un homme qui dit oui26 ! » Son rapport à la mort est encore évidemment bouleversé. Jung affirme non seulement ne plus la craindre, mais aussi ne plus être autant affecté qu’avant par la perte de ses

We can better appreciate the relationship of death anxiety to the challenges of individuation if we realize that implicit in everything I have been saying thus far is the ultimate defense against death: the refusal to live. If I do not come into existence, I cannot go out of existence. If I do not emerge as a separate entity, there is no one for de

Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.”

Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives. —A. SACHS

The shadow is a living part of the personality and therefore wants to live with it in some form. It cannot be argued out of existence or rationalized into harmlessness.

“People living deeply have no fear of dying,” wrote Anaïs Nin. Norman Cousins observed that “the great tragedy of life is not death but what we allow to die inside of us while we live.”