"I have frequently seen people become neurotic..." - Quote by Carl Jung
I have frequently seen people become neurotic when they content themselves with inadequate or wrong answers to the questions of life. They seek position, marriage, reputation, outward success of money, and remain unhappy and neurotic even when they have attained what they were seeking. Such people are usually confined within too narrow a spiritual horizon. Their life has not sufficient content, sufficient meaning. If they are enabled to develop into more spacious personalities, the neurosis generally disappears.
More by Carl Jung
“There is a thinking in primordial images, in symbols which are older than the historical man, which are inborn in him from the earliest times, eternally living, outlasting all generations, still make up the groundwork of the human psyche. It is only possible to live the fullest life when we are in harmony with these symbols; wisdom is a return to them.”
“Observance of customs and laws can very easily be a cloak for a lie so subtle that our fellow human beings are unable to detect it.”
“The fact is that certain ideas exist almost everywhere and at all times and can even spontaneously create themselves quite independently of migration and tradition.”
More on Neurosis
“I have frequently seen people become neurotic when they content themselves with inadequate or wrong answers to the questions of life.”
“About a third of my cases are suffering from no clinically definable neurosis, but from the senselessness and emptiness of their lives.”
“Life calls us forth to independence, and anyone who does not heed this call because of childish laziness or timidity is threatened with neurosis. And once this has broken out, it becomes an increasingly valid reason for running away from life.”
More on Meaning
“..Yet if today has no meaning, the past was a Blank and the future is a Chaos.”
“The man who regards his own life and that of his fellow-creatures as meaningless is not merely unfortunate but almost disqualified for life.”
“A dream that is not understood remains a mere occurrence; understood it becomes a living experience.”