Tuesday, July 17, 2007

Out-growing

The greatest and most important problems of life are all in a certain sense insoluble. They must be so because they express the nessary polarity inherent in every self-regulating system. They can never be solved, but only outgrown. This "out-growing" on further experience was seen to consist in a new level of consciousness. Some higher or wider interest arose on the person's horizon, and through this widening of his view the insoluble problem lost its urgency. It was not solved logically in its own terms, but faded out when confronted with a new and stronger life-tendency. It was not repressed and made unconscious, but merely appeared in a different light, and so, did indeed become different. What, on a lower level, had led to the wildest conflicts and to panicky outbursts of emotions, viwed from the higher level of personality, now seemed like a storm in the valley seen from a high mountain-top. This does not mean that the thunderstorm is robbed of its reality, but instead of being in it one is now above it.
This is Jung talking about the goals of analysis.

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