Mimi Siyo Kile Kilichonitokea

“I am not what happened to me....” [Thank you for this great quote @BarryD!]

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KISWAHILI

“Mimi siyo kile kilichonitokea; mimi ni kile ninachokuwa."

- inahusishwa sana na Carl Jung (1875-1971)*

ENGLISH TRANSLATION

“I am not what happened to me; I am what I become.”

- widely attributed to Carl Jung (1875-1971)*

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Kuhusu (About):

KISWAHILI

Carl Jung (1875-1971) alikuwa mwanasaikolojia wa Uswizi aliyeanzisha saikolojia ya uchanganuzi…kwa sehemu katika kujibu kwa uchambuzi wa kisaikolojia wa Sigmund Freud. Kazi ya Jung imekuwa na ushawishi mkubwa katika magonjwa ya akili na katika masomo ya dini, anthropolojia, fasihi, na nyanja zinazohusiana.

ENGLISH TRANSLATION

Carl Jung (1875-1971) was a Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who founded analytical psychology, partly in response to Sigmund Freud’s psychoanalysis. Jung’s work has been influential in psychiatry and in the study of religion, anthropology, literature, and related fields.

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KISWAHILI: Asante na tutaonana tena,

Mmerikani

ENGLISH TRANSLATION: Thank you and may we see each other again,

Mmerikani

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* Hii yamkini imetokana neno halisi la Jung, "Siyo mimi ninajiumba, badala yake ninajitokea"; tazama chanzo chini.

* This is likely paraphrased from Jung’s original, “It is not I who create myself, rather I happen to myself”; see source below.

Chanzo (source): Read, Herbert, Michael Fordham, Gerhard Adler, and William McGuire, eds. The Collected Works of C.G. Jung, volume 11, page 259. In the Bollingen Series XX, 2nd edition. Translated by R.F.C. Hull. New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1969. Internet Archive. Retrieved on October 6, 2023 from https://archive.org/details/x-psychology-religion/page/n1/mode/2up?view=theater.