Note 45 — Chapter VIII · THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN SEXUALITY AND SEX IN RELATION TO UNIFICATION AND ORGANIC MATING

While a student of Jung’s in the early days of psychoanalysis, at the time when Jung was the very organ of Freud’s genius, the clear emanation of his spirit, I remarked to him one day that I had come to the conclusion that the neurotic individual inevitably married his mother. Jung’s reply, alert as a flash, was characteristic of his brilliant, inclusive scope of vision. “I have come to the conclusion,” he said, “that every individual inevitably marries his mother.”