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The unsatisfied yearning of the artist reaches back to the primordial image in the unconscious which is best fitted to compensate the inadequacy and one-sidedness of the present.

Carl Jung

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Carl Jung
Age: 85 †
Born: 1875
Born: July 26
Died: 1961
Died: June 6
Essayist
Psychiatrist
Psychologist
Psychotherapist
Kesswil TG
C.G. Jung
Karl Gustav Jung
C. G. Jung
C. G. Yungu
Carl Gustav Jung
Back
Fitted
Best
Inadequacy
Reaches
Yearning
Sidedness
Unconscious
Conjuring
Image
Primordial
Present
Compensate
Artist
Unsatisfied

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