What is the myth?

It is often the case that at midlife and beyond  life calls us to look again at who we are, what we have done, what we believe in. This is prime time for discovering what is the story we have been living; as Jung put it — I asked myself, "What is the the myth you are living?" and found that I did not know. So...I took it upon myself to get to know "my" myth, an I regarded this as the task of tasks...I simply had to know what unconscious or preconscious myth was forming me."Human beings are narrative makers. We remember ourselves and our lives in stories -- stories we tell our friends, family, strangers, ourselves. When a new patient comes to me, I say "tell me about yourself" and await the story of this person's life and how it has brought her to me. And if we work together for some time, that story will change so that the story she tells at the end will be recognizable as hers but different in some ways from the tale told at the beginning."The universe is made of stories – not atoms" --   Muriel RukeyserSo, we swim in a sea of stories -- our own and those of the ones around us. And we shape our lives around the story we tell ourself is ours, the story that we live. Think of a person you no doubt know whose life could be summed up in the song title, "I would do anything for love" -- can you begin to see the story he or she is living? And how might that person be able to change the course of the story, write a new chapter if only she knew it was what she is living?"The...
Source: Jung At Heart - Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: blogs