That which compels us to create a substitute for ourselves is not the …

Carl Jung
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That which compels us to create a substitute for ourselves is not the external lack of objects, but our incapacity to lovingly include a thing outside of ourselves ✨ Carl Gustav Jung, Beatrice M. Hinkle (2003). Psychology of the Unconscious, p.193, Courier Corporation
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That which compels us to create a substitute for ourselves is not the external lack of objects, but our incapacity to lovingly include a thing outside of ourselves ✨ Carl Gustav Jung, Beatrice M. Hinkle (2003). Psychology of the Unconscious, p.193, Courier Corporation

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