The Archetypes and happiness

The Archetypes and Collective Unconscious, by C.G. Jung.

Here comes Carl Jung's paradox: 

“All factors which are generally assumed to make for happiness can, under certain circumstances, produce the contrary. No matter how ideal your situation may be, it does not necessarily guarantee happiness.”

So it was in 1960, one journalist Gordon Young asked Jung:

"What do you consider to be more or less basic factors making for happiness in the human mind?" 

Jung answered with five elements:

1. Good physical and mental health.

2. Good personal and intimate relationships, such as those of marriage, the family, and friendships.

3. The ability for perceiving beauty in art and nature.

4. Reasonable standards of living and satisfactory work.

5. A philosophic or religious point of view capable of coping successfully with the vicissitudes of life 

 .. and can structure the world, I think so.

“From the unconscious there

emanate determining influences…

which, independently of tradition,

 guarantee in every single individual

a similarity and even a sameness

of experience, and also of the way

it is represented imaginatively.” 

(The Archetypes and 

the Collective Unconscious, Carl Jung)