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Finding The True Self
Jung said that many of his patients were “not suffering from any clinically definable neurosis, but from the senselessness and aimlessness of their lives…the general neurosis of our age”. And Jung characterizes therapy in the same passage, as the process in which “we must follow nature as a guide, and what the doctor then does is less a question of treatment than of developing the creative possibilities latent in the patient himself.”
James Hillman
The Myth of Analysis
‘Sooner or later something seems to call us towards a particular path. You may remember the ‘something’ as a signal moment in childhood when an urge out of nowhere, a fascination, a peculiar turn of events struck like an annunciation. This is what I must do, this is what I have got to have. This is who I am. If not this vivid or sure, the call may have been more like gentle pushings in the stream in which you drifted unknowingly to a particular spot on the bank. Looking back you sense that fate had a hand in it’. — James Hillman
“It’s not enough to be nice in life. You’ve got to have nerve.”
Georgia O’Keeffe
It takes determination to find your real life. It’s not going to be handed to you usually, and if it is you have to recognize its value. O’Keeffe knew the temptations to diminish your natural tendencies…
