On tolerating difficult emotions with a capacity to be curious about their meaning versus 'soothing' them away. And the modern world provides an endless source of ways to distract ourselves from discomfort including fancy hairbrushes...

Jung is on the money: modern man - scientific man - has lost the ability to think symbolically and understand the unconscious. We take everything on face value and social media is simply accelerating this. Most of our individual and thus collective behaviours are not quite what

'If you want to be loved and liked, don't go into psychotherapy. Because you have to put up with people hating you, because they have not been able to express that hatred to the real people who didn't take care of them, didn't welcome them, ignored them.' - Estela Welldon