Who Looks Outside Dreams Who Looks

From a letter dated 22 October 1916 to Fanny Bowditch, a prospective patient whom Jung had agreed to treat after returning from military service, published in C.G. Jung: Letters, Vol. 1, 1906–1950 (p. 33). The letter urges Bowditch to turn inward rather than projecting her psychology onto others: "Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Without, everything seems discordant; only within does it coalesce into unity." The aphorism is the closing line of that passage. It distils the central premise of analytical psychology: that psychological clarity comes not from analysing external circumstances but from confronting the contents of the unconscious.