Sublime

Jung argued that neurosis is inauthentic suffering,

That there is something positive in our symptoms and problems is fundamental to Jung’s finalistic psychology. Jung proposed that we should not only look at our maladies in a causal reductive fashion, but seek their direction and meaning as well. According to Jung, our neurotic symptoms and complexes are elaborate arrangements designed by the uncons

Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent. C. G. JUNG

He didn’t teach what he believed, he taught what he knew. That was the message that Jung learned from Philemon.

Jung redéfinit en profondeur la psyché humaine. Au fil de ses expériences, de ses études et de ses découvertes, il élabore une nouvelle géographie de l’âme en quatre continents : le moi conscient et ses orientations (les types psychologiques), l’inconscient personnel, l’inconscient collectif, le Soi.

When images from the unconscious emerged, rather than intellectually analyzing them, Jung would encourage the patient to interact with them. He called this “Active Imagination.” His goal was to integrate these figures—including the Shadow—into the patient’s sense of himself, making him whole. He called this state the “Self.”

“The urge to become what one is is invincibly strong, and you can always count on it,” wrote Jung, “but that does not mean that things will necessarily turn out positively. If you are not interested in your own fate, the unconscious is.”2