"And our man of intellect comes forward, shaking his head, and says in Faust's words: "Thou art conscious only of the single urge," namely of the fleshly bond leading back to father and mother or forward to the children that have sprung from our flesh --- "incest" with the past and "incest" with the future, the original sin of the perpetuation of the family situation."
Please help me to understand what Jung means by the blue phrase.
Cadzao
Top answer
org/wiki/Original_sin Perhaps simplistic: the continuation of the family -- the procreation -- and the conflicts it generates for ever
— Marius Hancu
org/wiki/Original_sin Perhaps simplistic: the continuation of the family -- the procreation -- and the conflicts it generates for ever
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