Jung tells me that patients often ask him how they should ‘solve’ this or that problem. Jung tells them that they shouldn’t be seeking to solve it, but rather just to have a crack at it, to grapple and struggle with it. Problems aren’t there to be ‘solved’; they are pairs of opposites that between them produce a tension that is called life.
Hermann Hesse in his ‘Zürich notebook’, 29 June 1921