ABSTRACT
Our approach throughout this book has been psychological. It’s a good rule for the psychoanalyst to refrain from offering advice to individual patients: so what could be said of offering advice to the whole of society? Jungian analysts propose no standard cure. They presume that people in psychic pain are in need above all of individuation, which is to say that the patients’ task is to overcome interior contradictions, to understand their particular needs, and as completely as possible to become themselves. What they offer their patients is no previously given or ideal solution but a search. Thus, in speaking of the father figure, we shouldn’t say: “The father should be like this.” Instead we say, “Look for him, no matter if within yourself or in the outside world.”
