If you disagree because you have always known who you are and what you wanted, I envy you (though I suspect that you may not know yourself as well as you think). Having spent too much of my time...

If you disagree because you have always known who you are and what you wanted, I envy you (though I suspect that you may not know yourself as well as you think). Having spent too much of my time obeying introjected parental demands (or what I thought were parental demands), I have experienced more than a little diffi culty untangling my own wishes from these introjected standards and fi guring out what I really want (as by fi nding work that I genuinely like). So I agree with Jung’s statement. See also the quote that appears at the end of the section on criteria of maturity in the chapter on Allport, and Freud’s quote at the end of the section on the ego in Chapter 2.