The Stages of Life: Childhood
Ultimately it must be the individual disposition which decides whether the child belongs to this or that type despite the constancy of external conditions . . . Under abnormal conditions, (i.e. when mother’s attitude is extreme), a similar attitude can be forced on the child too, thus violating their individual disposition. — C. G. Jung […]
The Stages of Life
. . . beneath the neglected functions there lie hidden far higher individual values which, though of small importance for the collective life, are of the greatest value for the individual life, and are therefore vital values that can endow the life of the individual with an intensity and a beauty he will vainly seek […]