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Why Do We Need A Symbolic Life?

Digital Jung

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The Importance of Tending the Needs of the Inner Life

The symbolic life in some form is a prerequisite for psychic health. Without it, the ego is alienated from its super personal source and falls victim to cosmic anxiety. If we don't eat, we starve; if we don't pay the rent, we lose our home. Neither hunger nor the landlord can be ignored very long without obvious consequences. But we can seemingly ignore our need for meaning indefinitely.

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