The greatest and most important problems of life are all in a certain sense insoluble. They must be so because they express the necessary polarity inherent in every self-regulatory 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 persons horizon, and through this widening of his view the insoluble problem lots its urgency. It was not that was 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 lead to the wildest conflicts and to panicky outbursts of emotion, viewed from the higher level of personality, now seemed like a storm in the valley seen from a higher mountain-top. This does not mean that the thunderstorm is robbed of its reality, but instead of living in it one is now above it! Jung
Posted on: Mon, 17 Mar 2014 16:28:20 +0000
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