The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical…

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Carl Jung

1933

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Personal chemistry Connecting with others Man as social animal

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Psychological literature

Time

1933

Person

Carl Jung

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Jung, Carl. "Problems of Modern Psychology." Modern Man in Search of a Soul, translated by Cary F. Baynes and William Stanley Dell. Kegen Paul, Trenche, Trubner & Co., 1933.

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