The life parents never lived lands on their children.

What it means

Children absorb the dreams their parents gave up, often in a twisted form. Jung's examples: very moral parents with rebellious children, an aimless father with a son driven to excess. The kindest thing a parent can do is live their own life fully.

The source

"The life parents never lived lands on their children." Carl Jung said it in Contributions to Analytical Psychology (1928), 'Marriage as a Psychological Relationship' (1925). Translated by H. G. and C. F. Baynes, 1928.

"As a rule, all of the life that could have been lived by the parents, but in which they were thwarted because of artificial motives, is bequeathed to the children in a perverted form."

H. G. and C. F. Baynes, 1928, Contributions to Analytical Psychology (1928), 'Marriage as a Psychological Relationship' (1925). 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 "The life parents never lived lands on their children." mean?

Children absorb the dreams their parents gave up, often in a twisted form. Jung's examples: very moral parents with rebellious children, an aimless father with a son driven to excess. The kindest thing a parent can do is live their own life fully.

Who said "The life parents never lived lands on their children."?

Carl Jung (1875–1961). Source: Contributions to Analytical Psychology (1928), 'Marriage as a Psychological Relationship' (1925).

What is the original wording?

As a rule, all of the life that could have been lived by the parents, but in which they were thwarted because of artificial motives, is bequeathed to the children in a perverted form (H. G. and C. F. Baynes, 1928). Translated by H. G. and C. F. Baynes, 1928.

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