ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author touches upon Jung’s concept of extraversion and introversion stating that living in a country of constitutional excitement, it was hard for him as an analyst in the USA to proof the existence of introversion. Applying Susan Sontag’s work Illness as Metaphor, a disease that affect the lungs – as Covid-19 does – stands for an illness of the soul. Could the affluent society perceive the seclusion caused by Coronavirus as compensation at all? The author seizes the opportunity to discuss the complexity of metaphors and shares his experience as medical student when he learned how violently the body wards off illnesses – to the extent of dying from it. The compensation would demonstrate itself worse than illness itself. The author urges committed attention instead of defensive extraversion.
