Two empty wooden chairs overlooking the sea at sunset.

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Carl Gustav Jung

The greatest tragedy of the family is the unlived lives of the parents.

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What it means

Our interpretation.

Jung suggests that the deepest sorrow within a family is not conflict but what the parents never got to live: ambitions and possibilities left unfulfilled. In his view, that absence shapes the household and quietly weighs on those who follow.

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