The Disturbing Life Theory Carl Jung Wanted Everyone to Understand

Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent. C. G. JUNG

Jung often lamented that he “knew things and must hint at things which other people do not know, and usually do not even want to know.”

We may add to that: what we resist in time becomes pathology, either through platitudinous, superficial lives or embodied as addictions, depressions, or obsessions with those objects upon which the unlived life has been projected. We may confess instead that what we resist will persist, as haunting.