Jungian Therapy, Jungian Analysis, New York

Sacrifice

from Jung Lexicon by Daryl Sharp

Sacrifice. Psychologically, associated with the need to give up the world of childhood, often signaled by the regression of energy.

One must give up the retrospective longing which only wants to resuscitate the torpid bliss and effortlessness of childhood.[The Sacrifice,”CW5, par. 643.]

For him who looks backwards the whole world, even the starry sky, becomes the mother who bends over him and enfolds him on all sides, and from the renunciation of this image, and of the longing for it, arises the picture of the world as we know it today.[Ibid, par. 646.]