What youth finds outside, midlife must find within.

What it means

Young people rightly look outward: for partners, work and adventure. In middle age the same hunger needs a new direction, inward. Trying to relive youth only makes the afternoon harder.

The source

"What youth finds outside, midlife must find within." Carl Jung said it in Two Essays (1928), I, ch. V 'The Personal Unconscious and the Super-personal or Collective Unconscious'. Translated by H. G. and C. F. Baynes, 1928.

"the hand of the clock cannot be turned back; what youth found and must find outside, the man of middle life must find within himself."

H. G. and C. F. Baynes, 1928, Two Essays (1928), I, ch. V 'The Personal Unconscious and the Super-personal or Collective 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 youth finds outside, midlife must find within." mean?

Young people rightly look outward: for partners, work and adventure. In middle age the same hunger needs a new direction, inward. Trying to relive youth only makes the afternoon harder.

Who said "What youth finds outside, midlife must find within."?

Carl Jung (1875–1961). Source: Two Essays (1928), I, ch. V 'The Personal Unconscious and the Super-personal or Collective Unconscious'.

What is the original wording?

the hand of the clock cannot be turned back; what youth found and must find outside, the man of middle life must find within himself (H. G. and C. F. Baynes, 1928). Translated by H. G. and C. F. Baynes, 1928.

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