ABSTRACT
We have mentioned Jung’s ‘creative illness’, which may also be considered to have been a mid-life crisis, a psychic constellation inherent to his individuation process. For Jung, it was characterized by a struggle with the power of contents activated in his unconscious. He said himself that this experience provoked a reorientation in the deepest structures of his personality:
But then, I hit upon this stream of lava, and the heat of its fires reshaped my life. That was the primal stuff which compelled me to work upon it, and my works are a more or less successful endeavour to incorporate this incandescent matter into the contemporary picture of the world.
