Jungian psychologist Marie-Louise von Franz on the reality of wasted potential, brutal https://t.co/cOOQRaYWFb
A psychiatrist once told me, with alarming frankness, that “interpretation is hostile.” I think he was saying that not everyone wants their pain revealed and recorded. There’s a fine line between interpretation and hostility, between relating to someone else’s experience and appropriating it, between travel and transgression, inquiry and voyeurism.
... See moreSuzanne Koven • Letter to a Young Female Physician: Notes from a Medical Life
They are haunted by the experience of their inner emptiness, a void within themselves; they are caught in that situation which I have called the “existential vacuum.”