Dear Jack:

My problem with reading anything, even by a professional as great as Carl Jung was and as influencial as his writings are in the current Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) currently practiced- is that a good amount of what he wrote is incorrect. In the past I didn’t understand this point: I’d read a book, read amazing things that made sense to me and were correct and then I assumed everything this person wrote must be correct. I didn’t challenge anything and that ended with my confusion and it hindered my healing as things read didn’t fit with the truth and I didn’t get it. As a result I read way less and I focus on concepts and not on who originated the concept.

For example you wrote that individuation happens usually later in life. Did Carl Jung wrote that? It could be that in his time such was the case. Looking around me- looking at people in my life, throughout my life, I do not see a correlation between age and individuation. None at all.

I wonder what you mean by having your shadow (I looked up the shadow concept by Jung and it was too complicated- which to me means it may be unecessarily complicated)? And what do you think of the concept of individuation in your person/ life?

anita