"We have no symbolic life, and we are all badly in need of the
symbolic life. Only the symbolic life can express the need of
the soul - the daily need of the soul, mind you! And because people
have no such thing, they can never step out of this mill - this
awful, banal, grinding life in which they are "nothing but."
. . . Everything is banal; everything is "nothing but,"
and that is the reason why people are neurotic. They are simply
sick of the whole thing, sick of that banal life, and therefore
they want sensation. They even want a war; they all want a war;
they are all glad when there is a war; they say, "Thank heaven,
now something is going to happen - something bigger than ourselves!"
http://www.jung.org/readingcorner.html
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