Then for the first time I understood what it meant to be in the aura of a deeply integrated person, how the healing radiation of such a person could affect one profoundly without any immediate outward sign.Īnd then there is another experience which is characteristic of the way Jung worked. Only then did I realize how Jung, by an unnoticeable influence, had penetrated right into the depths of my psyche, how in an imperceptible way of creative passivity he had made myself clearer to myself. Had it really been worth my while? All the great hopes, all the effort, had been in vain.įirst my friends, then I myself felt that my whole life, my whole outlook, were gradually changing for the better, that I had got a much better grip on reality, a better understanding of relationship – in short that I had become a different person, much more positive and creative than I had ever been. So I left after three months with a profound feeling of disillusionment and frustration. I gradually became more and more disorientated and disappointed when I noticed that absolutely nothing seemed to happen – I did not feel any different from what I had felt when I had set out for Zurich. I knew that I was going to stay for three months, until Jung had his usual term break, and I was sure that the great magician, the old wise man, the archetype of the self, and what have you, would transform me from a rather insecure and diffident young man into a fully integrated total personality. It is not difficult to imagine with what expectations, hopes, and, needless to say, projections, I arrived. I was 26 years old when I first went out to Zurich to start analysis with Jung.
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