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Marie-Louise von Franz

“There is a strange attitude and feeling that one is not yet in real life. For the time being one is doing this or that, but whether it is a woman or a job, it is not yet what is really wanted, and there is always the fantasy that sometime in the future the real thing will come about. If this attitude is prolonged, it means a constant inner refusal to commit oneself to the moment. With this there is often, to a smaller or greater extent, a savior complex, with the secret thought that one day one will be able to save the world; the last word in philosophy, or religion, or politics, or art, or something else, will be found.”

Marie-Louise von Franz, The Problem of the Puer Aeternus
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The Problem of the Puer Aeternus (Studies in Jungian Psychology by Jungian Analysts, 87) The Problem of the Puer Aeternus by Marie-Louise von Franz
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