From the living fountain of instinct flows everything that is creative…

Carl Jung
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From the living fountain of instinct flows everything that is creative; hence the unconscious is not merely conditioned by history, but is the very source of the creative impulse. It is like nature herself - prodigiously conservative, and yet transcending her own historical conditions in her acts of creation. ✨ Carl Gustav Jung (1960). The structure and dynamics of the psyche
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