"Writing in 1970, [[Marie-Louise von Franz]], the [[Swiss]] psychologist and scholar of fairy tales, captured the otherworldly atmosphere of such an existence: "**There is a strange attitude and feeling that one is not yet in real life**. For the time being one is doing this or that, but whether it is [a relationship with] a woman or a job, **it is not yet what is really wanted, and there is always the fantasy that sometime in the future the real thing will come about** … The one thing dreaded throughout by such a type of man is to be bound to anything whatever. There is a terrific fear of being pinned down, of entering space and time completely, and of being the unique human that one is." --- **Tags** -- [[quotes]], [[acceptance]], [[expectations]], [[character]], [[momento-mori]], **Source** -- [[202410130434 - B - Four Thousand Weeks]]