The Hours of Endless Waiting
One of the most intense and agonizing experiences in life is waiting for a prolonged period for a beloved person or a desired destination without any fixed deadline or certainty. This endless waiting gradually burns a person from within. When analyzed through the deep psychology of the renowned psychiatrist Carl Jung, such intense separation or absence triggers a deep "emotional withdrawal" within the human psyche, where an individual retreats from the external world and enters into a severe internal conflict with their unconscious mind. According to Carl Jung, this kind of heart-wrenching pain or heartbreak is an inevitable catalyst for self-realization and the process of achieving wholeness in personality, which he termed the stage of "individuation." In this phase, a person's over-conscious ego walls shatter, forcing them to confront extreme helplessness, ultimately realizing that the conscious ego is merely a small fraction of the vast ocean of the mind. W...