Why Your Life Suddenly Stops Fitting You | Carl Jung

It is Sunday evening, you are sitting in your car outside your own home, and you cannot make yourself open the door. This video explains what Carl Jung meant by individuation, why a life that looks finished can suddenly stop fitting, what pain is really trying to say, what synchronicity does and does not mean, and the real sentence from Jung's book Aion that the internet rewords as "what you refuse to see inside, you meet outside." Chapters 0:00 Sunday evening, outside your own door 0:50 The moment Jung kept hearing about 1:19 What individuation means 2:21 The persona, the mask you wear 3:01 When the mask starts to slip 3:27 Jung's own collapse around 1913 4:30 The crowd and the cost of fitting in 6:25 Normal is not the same as healthy 7:25 Pain, and "legitimate suffering" 8:57 Synchronicity and the scarab 11:00 The step you cannot take back 11:14 The dragon at the threshold 12:03 Meeting everything you pushed out 12:58 Nobody can do this for you 13:54 The sentence from Aion 15:05 The door back into a life you outgrew Ideas and works mentioned: Carl Jung (individuation, the persona, the shadow, synchronicity), Aion, The Undiscovered Self, Memories, Dreams, Reflections. Books and related reading: https://www.amazon.com/?tag=theburied... (affiliate link, I earn a small commission at no cost to you) Scripts are researched and written by me. Narration is synthetic. Animation is drawn with code. If this landed, write "crossing" in the comments. #carljung #individuation #jungianpsychology #psychologY #shadowwork