What you kept seeing in others turns out to be part of you.

What it means

We are quick to spot in other people the traits we have not admitted in ourselves. Jung calls this projection. When something in someone else keeps catching your attention, it is worth asking whether it is also yours.

The source

"What you kept seeing in others turns out to be part of you." Carl Jung said it in Two Essays (1928), II, Part I, ch. II 'Phenomena Resulting from the Assimilation of the Unconscious'. Translated by H. G. and C. F. Baynes, 1928.

"Through the fact that analysis makes the personal unconscious conscious, the subject becomes aware of things which, however much he had seen them in others, were never before entertained as components of himself."

H. G. and C. F. Baynes, 1928, Two Essays (1928), II, Part I, ch. II 'Phenomena Resulting from the Assimilation of the Unconscious'. 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 "What you kept seeing in others turns out to be part of you." mean?

We are quick to spot in other people the traits we have not admitted in ourselves. Jung calls this projection. When something in someone else keeps catching your attention, it is worth asking whether it is also yours.

Who said "What you kept seeing in others turns out to be part of you."?

Carl Jung (1875–1961). Source: Two Essays (1928), II, Part I, ch. II 'Phenomena Resulting from the Assimilation of the Unconscious'.

What is the original wording?

Through the fact that analysis makes the personal unconscious conscious, the subject becomes aware of things which, however much he had seen them in others, were never before entertained as components of himself (H. G. and C. F. Baynes, 1928). Translated by H. G. and C. F. Baynes, 1928.

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"What you kept seeing in others turns out to be part of you." (Carl Jung, Two Essays (1928), II, Part I, ch. II 'Phenomena Resulting from the Assimilation of the Unconscious', trans. H. G. and C. F. Baynes, 1928). https://spartansurfers.com/quotes/what-you-kept-seeing-in-others-turns-out