“Emotion is the chief source of all becoming-conscious.”

—  C.G. Jung

Psychological Aspects of the Mother Archetype (1938)
Context: Emotion is the chief source of all becoming-conscious. There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion.

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Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist who founded analytic… 1875–1961

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