Develop your opposite side and new inner springs open.

What it means

A thinker who learns to feel, or a feeler who learns to think, finds new resources. Jung calls the weaker side the contrary function. Growing it makes you less dependent on what happens around you.

The source

"Develop your opposite side and new inner springs open." Carl Jung said it in Collected Papers (1917), ch. XIV 'The Psychology of the Unconscious Processes', X. Translated by Constance E. Long, 1917.

"The assimilation of the contrary function discloses new inner springs, which guarantee to the individual considerably greater independence from external conditions."

Constance E. Long, 1917, Collected Papers (1917), ch. XIV 'The Psychology of the Unconscious Processes', X. Text read at gutenberg.org.

Who said it

Carl Jung (1875–1961). Swiss psychiatrist who broke with Freud and founded analytical psychology. He mapped the persona, the shadow, the collective unconscious and the lifelong work of becoming yourself, which he called individuation. Our lines come only from his writings published before 1931, in our own translations from the German or in English translations of the time.

Questions

What does "Develop your opposite side and new inner springs open." mean?

A thinker who learns to feel, or a feeler who learns to think, finds new resources. Jung calls the weaker side the contrary function. Growing it makes you less dependent on what happens around you.

Who said "Develop your opposite side and new inner springs open."?

Carl Jung (1875–1961). Source: Collected Papers (1917), ch. XIV 'The Psychology of the Unconscious Processes', X.

What is the original wording?

The assimilation of the contrary function discloses new inner springs, which guarantee to the individual considerably greater independence from external conditions (Constance E. Long, 1917). Translated by Constance E. Long, 1917.

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