Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.

The line is typically invoked to express a Jungian skepticism toward the idea of a wholly “normal” or perfectly well-adjusted psyche. Read in that spirit, it suggests that what passes for sanity may be a socially approved mask—an adaptation that can conceal repression, denial, or unintegrated conflict. “Cure” then becomes ironic: if someone appears flawlessly sane, a depth psychologist might suspect a lack of self-knowledge and propose analysis to uncover the shadow, complexes, and contradictions that ordinary life keeps hidden. The remark also critiques psychiatry’s tendency to treat health as conformity, implying that genuine psychological wholeness includes tension, ambiguity, and the acceptance of inner opposites.