Carl Jung, The Practice of Pschotherapy, tr. R. F. C. Hull (Bollingen Series XX., 1954), pt. 2, II., Psychology of the Transference, 8: Purification, para. 491, p. 279:
The story of Faust shows how unnatural our condition is: it required the intervention of the devil—in anticipation of Steinach—to transform the ageing alchemist into a young gallant and make him forget himself for the sake of the all-too-youthful feelings he had just discovered! That is precisely the risk modern man runs: he may wake up one day to find that he has missed half his life.
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