Own all of yourself. What you bury trips you where it hurts most.

What it means

Pushing a feeling or a trait out of sight does not get rid of it. It turns up later, and usually at your weakest point. Knowing all of yourself, including the parts you dislike, is the safer way.

The source

"Own all of yourself. What you bury trips you where it hurts most." Carl Jung said it in Two Essays (1928), I, ch. II 'The Sexual Theory'. Translated by H. G. and C. F. Baynes, 1928.

"Under all circumstances it is an advantage to be in full possession of one's personality, for otherwise the repressed elements will crop up as a hindrance elsewhere, and this not merely in inessentials, but at the very point where we are most sensitive."

H. G. and C. F. Baynes, 1928, Two Essays (1928), I, ch. II 'The Sexual Theory'. Text read at archive.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 "Own all of yourself. What you bury trips you where it hurts most." mean?

Pushing a feeling or a trait out of sight does not get rid of it. It turns up later, and usually at your weakest point. Knowing all of yourself, including the parts you dislike, is the safer way.

Who said "Own all of yourself. What you bury trips you where it hurts most."?

Carl Jung (1875–1961). Source: Two Essays (1928), I, ch. II 'The Sexual Theory'.

What is the original wording?

Under all circumstances it is an advantage to be in full possession of one's personality, for otherwise the repressed elements will crop up as a hindrance elsewhere, and this not merely in inessentials, but at the very point where we are most sensitive (H. G. and C. F. Baynes, 1928). Translated by H. G. and C. F. Baynes, 1928.

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