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Author QuotedCarl Gustav Jung
Title QuotedUndiscovered Self
Date (Year/Month/Day)1959/08/30
Imprint[S.l.] : Routledge & Kegan Paul. 1958
QuotationShe [Fr. Anselm's sister] had been completely unable to understand Fr. A's vocation and had challenged him on it without pulling any punches, and the points she made were serious. (This in a letter at Easter.) I had written back suggesting she read Jung's Undiscovered Self. She had not replied. She was then working as a nurse in a psychiatric hospital.
Quotation SourceA Search for Solitude: Pursuing the Monk's True Life. The Journals of Thomas Merton, Volume 3, 1952-1960.; Edited by Lawrence S. Cunningham. / San Francisco : Harper Collins. 1996, p. 322
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