Face to Face1959

John Freeman:
Do you remember the occasion when you first felt consciousness of your own individual self?

Carl Gustav Jung:
That was in my eleventh year. There I certainly, on my way to school, I stepped out of a mist. It was just as if I had been in a mist, walking in a mist. And I stepped out of it, and I knew: I am. I am what I am. And then I thought, but what have I been before?