ABSTRACT
Both Jung and Kierkegaard grasp and articulate the movement, the continual becoming and spiritual momentum that characterise human existence. In Jung we have a ‘therapist-pastor’, and in Kierkegaard we see the ‘pastor-therapist’. In this final chapter we look at what this inquiry into Jung and Kierkegaard leaves us with – this I believe to be a delightful reminder that responsibility for change and growth lay within the individual. Knowing oneself is profoundly difficult, there will is always be elements of distortion in our beliefs and acts. But if we are able to find the courage and resolve to dare to know, to dare to be wise then we will find and awaken passion. Anxiety, uncertainty and doubt challenge our self-world relationship; we have to embrace and live with such anxieties in order to be transformed by it – running from anxiety only serves to maintain a status quo in the most personally stifling way. The key is not to drown out such dis-ease with the noise of everyday existence or to bury it with one’s dogmatic or fanatical beliefs but to embrace it.
