You are an experiment of ever-changing life, a new attempt at an answer.

What it means

No one before you has been exactly this combination of traits and circumstances. That makes your life an experiment, not a copy. Treat it as a search for a new answer.

The source

"You are an experiment of ever-changing life, a new attempt at an answer." Carl Jung said it in Contributions to Analytical Psychology (1928), 'Analytical Psychology and Education', Lecture III. Translated by H. G. and C. F. Baynes, 1928.

"Each individual is an experiment of everchanging life, and an attempt at a new solution or new adaptation."

H. G. and C. F. Baynes, 1928, Contributions to Analytical Psychology (1928), 'Analytical Psychology and Education', Lecture III. 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 "You are an experiment of ever-changing life, a new attempt at an answer." mean?

No one before you has been exactly this combination of traits and circumstances. That makes your life an experiment, not a copy. Treat it as a search for a new answer.

Who said "You are an experiment of ever-changing life, a new attempt at an answer."?

Carl Jung (1875–1961). Source: Contributions to Analytical Psychology (1928), 'Analytical Psychology and Education', Lecture III.

What is the original wording?

Each individual is an experiment of everchanging life, and an attempt at a new solution or new adaptation (H. G. and C. F. Baynes, 1928). Translated by H. G. and C. F. Baynes, 1928.

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