On Completeness

The psychological rule says that when an inner situation is not made conscious, it happens outside, as fate. That is to say, when the individual remains undivided and does not become conscious of his inner opposite, the world must perforce act out the conflict and be torn into opposing halves. --Jung, Aion, par.126

John Stuart Mill, one of the most influential thinkers of modern western democracy and contemporary education, realized this division at the age of twenty in the form of a nervous breakdown. Raised on the knees of an estimable father and the great Jeremy Bentham he would go on to confess in his Autobiography that the importance given to intellectual development was so out of balance that the development for normal childhood feelings or affections was sacrificed. After immersing himself into romantic poems and prose of his day he began to experience a healing effervescence of emotions. Conclusively, this wholeness, was the key to freeing him from his deep depression. (cf. Autobiography by John Stuart Mill, ch. 5)