According to Jung, a neurotic illness is triggered by three conditions. Evading and denying the tasks of life is very common in the modern day. Many parents pass on to their children a neurotic approach to life. Social forces are also promoting the laziness and passivity that leads to the neurotic evasion of life's tasks. The important question for the sufferer is how to effectuate a cure.
“There are just as many people who become neurotic because they are merely normal, as there are people who are neurotic because they cannot become normal. That it should enter anyone’s head to educate them to normality is a nightmare for the former, because their deepest need is really to be able to lead “abnormal” […]
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Why are so Many People Neurotic? – Carl Jung as Therapist first appeared on
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