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Digesting Jung: Food for the Journey - Inner City Books

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12 It’s a Complex Life<br />

Over <strong>the</strong> past hundred years <strong>the</strong> word “complex” has become<br />

common currency, but what it means, and <strong>the</strong> effects complexes<br />

have on our lives, are not so widely understood. This is un<strong>for</strong>tunate,<br />

<strong>for</strong> until we realize that, as <strong>Jung</strong> says, “complexes can have us,” we<br />

are doomed to live a life <strong>for</strong>ever hampered by <strong>the</strong>m, <strong>for</strong>ever ruled<br />

by inner <strong>for</strong>ces, <strong>for</strong>ever at odds with o<strong>the</strong>rs.

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