"Today, when a neurotic patient undertakes analysis, it suffers very often only partially personal problems, many, especially young people, are those who come to us simply because they suffer the absurdity and the despair of our contemporary situation. Currently, a melancholy or a kind of collective sluggishness, general malaise, similar to the time of the Empire Roman decadent invade entire groups. " (1) No, the comments above have not been held in 2007, but 30 years ago by Marie Louise von Franz during a lecture at the University of Graz (Austria).
We are all imbued with the spirit of the times, we can not escape it. Only the comparison over long periods of history allows us to take some distance from the present.
Prolonged contact with material from the unconscious gives us a unique opportunity to measure the intensity and depth of elements that animate the psyche, both individually and collectively.
It is urgent for the individual but also for the community, to its rightful place in all phenomena falling apart or ignored because of the psyche.
(1) Soul and archetypes - Marie Louise von Franz - p33
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