Fate of the Forefathers

It has always seemed to me that I had to answer questions which fate had posed to my forefathers, and which had not yet been answered, or as if I had to complete, or perphaps continue, things which previous ages had left unfinished.

We are very far from having finished completely with the Middle Ages, classical antiquity, and primitivity, as our psyches pretend.

-- Carl Jung, Memories, Dreams, Reflections.