Carl Jung: The one tragedy of life most people miss
The hidden forces I’ve overlooked for years
According to psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, and analytical psychologist Carl Jung, people unconsciously create and sustain their own tragedies. They get stuck in their own internal suffering. All the things that make us unhappy are inside us. Jung said that we cause our own problems but blame others for feeling bad. Jung observed that we get in our own way but blame others for our pain and suffering.
“It is often tragic to see how blatantly a man bungles his own life and the lives of others yet remains totally incapable of seeing how much the whole tragedy originates in himself, and how he continually feeds it and keeps it going. Not consciously, of course — for consciously he is engaged in bewailing and cursing a faithless world that recedes further and further into the distance. Rather, it is an unconscious factor which spins the illusions that veil his world. And what is being spun is a cocoon, which in the end will completely envelop him.”― C.G. Jung, Aion
But why do we consistently sabotage our own lives?
Blame your “shadow self”: unmet needs, hidden desires, unconscious impulses and the part of yourself you would rather not talk about. People are caught in a cycle of self-destruction, unable to break…
