Every person needs a textbook of their own.

What it means

General rules describe the average person, and nobody is the average person. Advice that fits everyone fits no one exactly. You have to work out your own manual.

The source

"Every person needs a textbook of their own." Carl Jung said it in Collected Papers (1917), ch. XV 'The Conception of the Unconscious'. Translated by Constance E. Long, 1917.

"Every individual psychology must have its own text-book, for the universal text-book only contains collective psychology."

Constance E. Long, 1917, Collected Papers (1917), ch. XV 'The Conception of the Unconscious'. 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 "Every person needs a textbook of their own." mean?

General rules describe the average person, and nobody is the average person. Advice that fits everyone fits no one exactly. You have to work out your own manual.

Who said "Every person needs a textbook of their own."?

Carl Jung (1875–1961). Source: Collected Papers (1917), ch. XV 'The Conception of the Unconscious'.

What is the original wording?

Every individual psychology must have its own text-book, for the universal text-book only contains collective psychology (Constance E. Long, 1917). Translated by Constance E. Long, 1917.

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