Everyone knows nowadays that people 'have complexes'. What is not so w…

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Everyone knows nowadays that people 'have complexes'. What is not so well known, though far more important theoretically, is that complexes can have us. ✨ Carl Gustav Jung (1981). The Collected Works of C. G. Jung: Structure and dynamics of the psyche
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Everyone knows nowadays that people 'have complexes'. What is not so well known, though far more important theoretically, is that complexes can have us. ✨ Carl Gustav Jung (1981). The Collected Works of C. G. Jung: Structure and dynamics of the psyche

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