[b]C.G. Jung
In psychology it is very important that the doctor should not strive to heal at all costs. One has to be exceedingly careful not to impose one’s own will and conviction on the patient. You have to give him a certain amount of freedom. You can’t wrest people away from their fate, just as in medicine you cannot cure a patient if nature means him to die. Sometimes it is really a question whether you are allowed to rescue a man from the fate he must undergo for the sake of his further development.[/b]
Imagine trying to bring this down to earth.
We must not underestimate the devastating effect of getting lost in the chaos, even if we know that it is the ‘sine qua non’ of any regeneration of the spirit and the personality.
Imagine trying to bring this down to earth.
Man is much more the victim of his psychic constitution than its inventor.
Uh, no shit?
From the beginning, I had a sense of destiny, as though my life was assigned to me by fate and had to be fulfilled. This gave me an inner security, and, though I could never prove to myself, it proved itself to me. I did not have the certainty, it had me.
Of course we know how far this can be taken.
Civilized life today demands concentrated, directed conscious functioning, and this entails the risk of a considerable dissociation from the unconscious. The further we are able to remove ourselves from the unconscious through directed functioning, the more readily a powerful counterposition can build up in the unconscious, and when this breaks out it may have disagreeable consequences.
Wow, talk about psychobabble!
Point taken though.
Hidden in our problems is a bit of still undeveloped personality, a precious fragment of the psyche. Without this, we face resignation, bitterness and everything else that is hostile to life.
Well hidden in mine.