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Jung's Collected Works #10
韦慰 伪蟻蠂苇蟿蠀蟺慰 蟿慰蠀 慰位慰魏位畏蟻蠅蟿喂蟽渭慰蠉
螚 螜伪蟿蟻喂魏萎 唯蠀蠂慰胃蔚蟻伪蟺蔚委伪 蔚委谓伪喂 蠀蟺慰蠂蟻蔚蠅渭苇谓畏, 纬喂伪 蟺蟻伪魏蟿喂魏慰蠉蟼 位蠈纬慰蠀蟼, 谓伪 伪蟽蠂慰位蔚委蟿伪喂 渭蔚 蟿慰 蟽蠉谓慰位慰 蟿畏蟼 蠄蠀蠂萎蟼. 螘蟺慰渭苇谓蠅蟼 蟺蟻苇蟺蔚喂 谓伪 苇位胃蔚喂 蟽蔚 蟽蠀渭蠁蠅谓委伪 渭蔚 蠈位慰蠀蟼 蟿慰蠀蟼 蟺伪蟻维纬慰谓蟿蔚蟼, 尾喂慰位慰纬喂魏慰蠉蟼, 魏慰喂谓蠅谓喂魏慰蠉蟼 魏伪喂 谓慰畏蟿喂魏慰蠉蟼, 蟺慰蠀 伪蟽魏慰蠉谓 味蠅蟿喂魏萎蟼 蟽畏渭伪蟽委伪蟼 蔚蟺委未蟻伪蟽畏 蟽蟿畏谓 蠄蠀蠂喂魏萎 味蠅萎.
螙慰蠉渭蔚 蟽蔚 蔚蟺慰蠂苇蟼 渭蔚纬维位蠅谓 伪谓伪蟿伪蟻伪蠂蠋谓: 蟿伪 蟺慰位喂蟿喂魏维 蟺维胃畏 苇蠂慰蠀谓 蟺维蟻蔚喂 蠁蠅蟿喂维, 慰喂 蔚蟽蠅蟿蔚蟻喂魏苇蟼 伪谓伪蟿伪蟻伪蠂苇蟼 苇蠁蔚蟻伪谓 蟿伪 苇胃谓畏 蟽蟿慰 蠂蔚委位慰蟼 蟿畏蟼 伪尾蠉蟽蟽慰蠀 魏伪喂 蟿伪 胃蔚渭苇位喂伪 蟿畏蟼 魏慰蟽渭慰胃蔚蠅蟻委伪蟼 渭伪蟼 魏伪蟿苇蟻蟻蔚蠀蟽伪谓. 螚 魏蟻喂蟽喂渭蠈蟿畏蟿伪 蟿畏蟼 魏伪蟿维蟽蟿伪蟽畏蟼 苇蠂蔚喂 蟿苇蟿慰喂伪 蟿蔚蟻维蟽蟿喂伪 蔚蟺委未蟻伪蟽畏 蟽蟿畏谓 蠄蠀蠂喂魏萎 味蠅萎 蟿慰蠀 伪蟿蠈渭慰蠀 蟺慰蠀 蟿伪 伪蟺慰蟿蔚位苇蟽渭伪蟿维 蟿畏蟼 慰蠁蔚委位蔚喂 谓伪 蟺伪蟻伪魏慰位慰蠀胃蔚委 慰 纬喂伪蟿蟻蠈蟼 渭蔚 渭蔚纬伪位蠉蟿蔚蟻畏 蟺蟻慰蟽慰蠂萎 蟿慰蠀 蟽蠀谓畏胃喂蟽渭苇谓慰蠀. 螚 蟽伪蟻蠅蟿喂魏萎 胃蠉蔚位位伪 蟿蠅谓 纬蔚纬慰谓蠈蟿蠅谓 未蔚谓 蟺苇蠁蟿蔚喂 蟺维谓蠅 蟿慰蠀 渭蠈谓慰 伪蟺蠈 蟿慰谓 苇尉蠅, 蟿慰谓 渭蔚纬维位慰 魏蠈蟽渭慰 畏 尾喂伪喂蠈蟿畏蟿伪 蟿畏蟼 蟺蟻蠈蟽魏蟻慰蠀蟽畏蟼 纬委谓蔚蟿伪喂 伪喂蟽胃畏蟿萎 伪魏蠈渭伪 魏伪喂 渭苇蟽伪 蟽蟿畏谓 畏蟽蠀蠂委伪 蟿慰蠀 喂伪蟿蟻蔚委慰蠀 蟿慰蠀 魏伪喂 蟽蟿喂蟼 喂未喂蠅蟿喂魏苇蟼 蟺蟻慰蟽蠅蟺喂魏苇蟼 伪魏蟻慰维蟽蔚喂蟼. 螚 蔚蠀胃蠉谓畏 伪蟺苇谓伪谓蟿喂 蟽蟿慰蠀蟼 伪蟽胃蔚谓蔚委蟼 蟿慰蠀 未蔚谓 蟿慰蠀 蔚蟺喂蟿蟻苇蟺蔚喂 谓伪 伪蟺慰蟽蠀蟻胃蔚委 蟽蟿畏谓 蔚喂蟻畏谓喂魏萎 谓畏蟽委未伪 蟿畏蟼 伪谓蔚谓蠈蠂位畏蟿畏蟼 蔚蟺喂蟽蟿畏渭慰谓喂魏萎蟼 蔚蟻纬伪蟽委伪蟼, 伪位位维 蔚蟺喂蟿维蟽蟽蔚喂 蟿畏 蟽蠀谓蔚蠂萎 魏伪蟿维尾伪蟽畏 蟽蟿畏谓 伪蟻苇谓伪 蟿蠅谓 蟺伪纬魏蠈蟽渭喂蠅谓 纬蔚纬慰谓蠈蟿蠅谓 魏伪喂 蟿畏谓 伪谓维渭蔚喂尉萎 蟿慰蠀 蟽蟿畏 渭维蠂畏 蟿蠅谓 蟽蠀纬魏蟻慰蠀蠈渭蔚谓蠅谓 蟺伪胃蠋谓 魏伪喂 喂未蔚蠋谓. 螒谓 渭蔚委谓蔚喂 伪渭苇蟿慰蠂慰蟼 蟽蟿畏谓 伪谓伪蟿伪蟻伪蠂萎, 畏 蟽蠀渭蠁慰蟻维 蟿畏蟼 蔚蟺慰蠂萎蟼 蟿慰蠀 胃伪 蟿慰谓 伪纬纬委尉蔚喂 渭蠈谓慰 伪蟺蠈渭伪魏蟻伪 魏伪喂 慰 蟺蠈谓慰蟼 蟿蠅谓 伪蟽胃蔚谓蠋谓 蟿慰蠀 未蔚谓 胃伪 尾蟻蔚喂 慰蠉蟿蔚 伪蟺萎蠂畏蟽畏 慰蠉蟿蔚 魏伪蟿伪谓蠈畏蟽畏 未蔚谓 胃伪 尉苇蟻蔚喂 蟺蠋蟼 谓伪 蟿慰蠀蟼 蟺蟻慰蟽蔚纬纬委蟽蔚喂 纬喂伪 谓伪 蟿慰蠀蟼 尾纬维位蔚喂 伪蟺蠈 蟿畏谓 伪蟺慰渭蠈谓蠅蟽萎 蟿慰蠀蟼. 螕喂' 伪蠀蟿蠈 未蔚谓 渭蟺慰蟻蔚委 慰 蠄蠀蠂慰位蠈纬慰蟼 谓伪 伪蟺苇蠂蔚喂 伪蟺蠈 蟿畏 蟽蠉纬蠂蟻慰谓畏 螜蟽蟿慰蟻委伪 -伪魏蠈渭畏 魏伪喂 伪谓 畏 委未喂伪 畏 蠄蠀蠂萎 蟿慰蠀 伪蟺慰蟽蟿蟻苇蠁蔚蟿伪喂 蟿慰谓 蟺慰位喂蟿喂魏蠈 伪谓伪尾蟻伪蟽渭蠈, 蟿伪 蠄苇渭伪蟿伪 蟿畏蟼 蟺蟻慰蟺伪纬维谓未伪蟼, 魏伪喂 蟿慰蠀蟼 魏伪魏蠈蠁蠅谓慰蠀蟼 位蠈纬慰蠀蟼 蟿蠅谓 未畏渭伪纬蠅纬蠋谓. 危伪谓 魏慰喂谓蠈蟼 蟺慰位委蟿畏蟼 苇蠂蔚喂 魏伪胃萎魏慰谓 谓伪 伪谓蟿喂渭蔚蟿蠅蟺委蟽蔚喂 蟿伪 纬蔚纬慰谓蠈蟿伪. 危伪谓 纬喂伪蟿蟻蠈蟼, 蠈渭蠅蟼, 苇蠂蔚喂 伪魏蠈渭畏 渭蔚纬伪位蠉蟿蔚蟻畏 蠀蟺慰蠂蟻苇蠅蟽畏 伪蟺苇谓伪谓蟿喂 蟽蟿畏谓 伪谓胃蟻蠅蟺蠈蟿畏蟿伪.
螙慰蠉渭蔚 蟽蔚 蔚蟺慰蠂苇蟼 渭蔚纬维位蠅谓 伪谓伪蟿伪蟻伪蠂蠋谓: 蟿伪 蟺慰位喂蟿喂魏维 蟺维胃畏 苇蠂慰蠀谓 蟺维蟻蔚喂 蠁蠅蟿喂维, 慰喂 蔚蟽蠅蟿蔚蟻喂魏苇蟼 伪谓伪蟿伪蟻伪蠂苇蟼 苇蠁蔚蟻伪谓 蟿伪 苇胃谓畏 蟽蟿慰 蠂蔚委位慰蟼 蟿畏蟼 伪尾蠉蟽蟽慰蠀 魏伪喂 蟿伪 胃蔚渭苇位喂伪 蟿畏蟼 魏慰蟽渭慰胃蔚蠅蟻委伪蟼 渭伪蟼 魏伪蟿苇蟻蟻蔚蠀蟽伪谓. 螚 魏蟻喂蟽喂渭蠈蟿畏蟿伪 蟿畏蟼 魏伪蟿维蟽蟿伪蟽畏蟼 苇蠂蔚喂 蟿苇蟿慰喂伪 蟿蔚蟻维蟽蟿喂伪 蔚蟺委未蟻伪蟽畏 蟽蟿畏谓 蠄蠀蠂喂魏萎 味蠅萎 蟿慰蠀 伪蟿蠈渭慰蠀 蟺慰蠀 蟿伪 伪蟺慰蟿蔚位苇蟽渭伪蟿维 蟿畏蟼 慰蠁蔚委位蔚喂 谓伪 蟺伪蟻伪魏慰位慰蠀胃蔚委 慰 纬喂伪蟿蟻蠈蟼 渭蔚 渭蔚纬伪位蠉蟿蔚蟻畏 蟺蟻慰蟽慰蠂萎 蟿慰蠀 蟽蠀谓畏胃喂蟽渭苇谓慰蠀. 螚 蟽伪蟻蠅蟿喂魏萎 胃蠉蔚位位伪 蟿蠅谓 纬蔚纬慰谓蠈蟿蠅谓 未蔚谓 蟺苇蠁蟿蔚喂 蟺维谓蠅 蟿慰蠀 渭蠈谓慰 伪蟺蠈 蟿慰谓 苇尉蠅, 蟿慰谓 渭蔚纬维位慰 魏蠈蟽渭慰 畏 尾喂伪喂蠈蟿畏蟿伪 蟿畏蟼 蟺蟻蠈蟽魏蟻慰蠀蟽畏蟼 纬委谓蔚蟿伪喂 伪喂蟽胃畏蟿萎 伪魏蠈渭伪 魏伪喂 渭苇蟽伪 蟽蟿畏谓 畏蟽蠀蠂委伪 蟿慰蠀 喂伪蟿蟻蔚委慰蠀 蟿慰蠀 魏伪喂 蟽蟿喂蟼 喂未喂蠅蟿喂魏苇蟼 蟺蟻慰蟽蠅蟺喂魏苇蟼 伪魏蟻慰维蟽蔚喂蟼. 螚 蔚蠀胃蠉谓畏 伪蟺苇谓伪谓蟿喂 蟽蟿慰蠀蟼 伪蟽胃蔚谓蔚委蟼 蟿慰蠀 未蔚谓 蟿慰蠀 蔚蟺喂蟿蟻苇蟺蔚喂 谓伪 伪蟺慰蟽蠀蟻胃蔚委 蟽蟿畏谓 蔚喂蟻畏谓喂魏萎 谓畏蟽委未伪 蟿畏蟼 伪谓蔚谓蠈蠂位畏蟿畏蟼 蔚蟺喂蟽蟿畏渭慰谓喂魏萎蟼 蔚蟻纬伪蟽委伪蟼, 伪位位维 蔚蟺喂蟿维蟽蟽蔚喂 蟿畏 蟽蠀谓蔚蠂萎 魏伪蟿维尾伪蟽畏 蟽蟿畏谓 伪蟻苇谓伪 蟿蠅谓 蟺伪纬魏蠈蟽渭喂蠅谓 纬蔚纬慰谓蠈蟿蠅谓 魏伪喂 蟿畏谓 伪谓维渭蔚喂尉萎 蟿慰蠀 蟽蟿畏 渭维蠂畏 蟿蠅谓 蟽蠀纬魏蟻慰蠀蠈渭蔚谓蠅谓 蟺伪胃蠋谓 魏伪喂 喂未蔚蠋谓. 螒谓 渭蔚委谓蔚喂 伪渭苇蟿慰蠂慰蟼 蟽蟿畏谓 伪谓伪蟿伪蟻伪蠂萎, 畏 蟽蠀渭蠁慰蟻维 蟿畏蟼 蔚蟺慰蠂萎蟼 蟿慰蠀 胃伪 蟿慰谓 伪纬纬委尉蔚喂 渭蠈谓慰 伪蟺蠈渭伪魏蟻伪 魏伪喂 慰 蟺蠈谓慰蟼 蟿蠅谓 伪蟽胃蔚谓蠋谓 蟿慰蠀 未蔚谓 胃伪 尾蟻蔚喂 慰蠉蟿蔚 伪蟺萎蠂畏蟽畏 慰蠉蟿蔚 魏伪蟿伪谓蠈畏蟽畏 未蔚谓 胃伪 尉苇蟻蔚喂 蟺蠋蟼 谓伪 蟿慰蠀蟼 蟺蟻慰蟽蔚纬纬委蟽蔚喂 纬喂伪 谓伪 蟿慰蠀蟼 尾纬维位蔚喂 伪蟺蠈 蟿畏谓 伪蟺慰渭蠈谓蠅蟽萎 蟿慰蠀蟼. 螕喂' 伪蠀蟿蠈 未蔚谓 渭蟺慰蟻蔚委 慰 蠄蠀蠂慰位蠈纬慰蟼 谓伪 伪蟺苇蠂蔚喂 伪蟺蠈 蟿畏 蟽蠉纬蠂蟻慰谓畏 螜蟽蟿慰蟻委伪 -伪魏蠈渭畏 魏伪喂 伪谓 畏 委未喂伪 畏 蠄蠀蠂萎 蟿慰蠀 伪蟺慰蟽蟿蟻苇蠁蔚蟿伪喂 蟿慰谓 蟺慰位喂蟿喂魏蠈 伪谓伪尾蟻伪蟽渭蠈, 蟿伪 蠄苇渭伪蟿伪 蟿畏蟼 蟺蟻慰蟺伪纬维谓未伪蟼, 魏伪喂 蟿慰蠀蟼 魏伪魏蠈蠁蠅谓慰蠀蟼 位蠈纬慰蠀蟼 蟿蠅谓 未畏渭伪纬蠅纬蠋谓. 危伪谓 魏慰喂谓蠈蟼 蟺慰位委蟿畏蟼 苇蠂蔚喂 魏伪胃萎魏慰谓 谓伪 伪谓蟿喂渭蔚蟿蠅蟺委蟽蔚喂 蟿伪 纬蔚纬慰谓蠈蟿伪. 危伪谓 纬喂伪蟿蟻蠈蟼, 蠈渭蠅蟼, 苇蠂蔚喂 伪魏蠈渭畏 渭蔚纬伪位蠉蟿蔚蟻畏 蠀蟺慰蠂蟻苇蠅蟽畏 伪蟺苇谓伪谓蟿喂 蟽蟿畏谓 伪谓胃蟻蠅蟺蠈蟿畏蟿伪.
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C.G. Jung
1,771听books10.6k听followersCarl Gustav Jung (/j蕣艐/; German: [藞karl 藞伞蕣staf j蕣艐]), often referred to as C. G. Jung, was a Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist who founded analytical psychology. Jung proposed and developed the concepts of extraversion and introversion; archetypes, and the collective unconscious. His work has been influential in psychiatry and in the study of religion, philosophy, archeology, anthropology, literature, and related fields. He was a prolific writer, many of whose works were not published until after his death.
The central concept of analytical psychology is individuation鈥攖he psychological process of integrating the opposites, including the conscious with the unconscious, while still maintaining their relative autonomy. Jung considered individuation to be the central process of human development.
Jung created some of the best known psychological concepts, including the archetype, the collective unconscious, the complex, and synchronicity. The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), a popular psychometric instrument, has been developed from Jung's theory of psychological types.
Though he was a practising clinician and considered himself to be a scientist, much of his life's work was spent exploring tangential areas such as Eastern and Western philosophy, alchemy, astrology, and sociology, as well as literature and the arts. Jung's interest in philosophy and the occult led many to view him as a mystic, although his ambition was to be seen as a man of science. His influence on popular psychology, the "psychologization of religion", spirituality and the New Age movement has been immense.
The central concept of analytical psychology is individuation鈥攖he psychological process of integrating the opposites, including the conscious with the unconscious, while still maintaining their relative autonomy. Jung considered individuation to be the central process of human development.
Jung created some of the best known psychological concepts, including the archetype, the collective unconscious, the complex, and synchronicity. The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), a popular psychometric instrument, has been developed from Jung's theory of psychological types.
Though he was a practising clinician and considered himself to be a scientist, much of his life's work was spent exploring tangential areas such as Eastern and Western philosophy, alchemy, astrology, and sociology, as well as literature and the arts. Jung's interest in philosophy and the occult led many to view him as a mystic, although his ambition was to be seen as a man of science. His influence on popular psychology, the "psychologization of religion", spirituality and the New Age movement has been immense.
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Finally, after a few years away, gathering the necessary moral courage and psychological strength, I am once again able to read Jung. Nothing frightens me more. Of every thinker I have been exposed to, no one is as deep as he is, no one is even close. Also no one is as difficult to read, and not because the words he uses, nor technical language, but simply grasping the framing, grasping 'where' he writes 'from'. The lens you get by reading Jung does not provoke existential angst, but sheer terror.
Jung sees structures in the human soul that people of modernity generally are unable to see, and he explains why. But the main insight, the thing that you will resist continuously, yet, nonetheless, is a fact of existence: Not only does God exist, but all gods of all times exist. This is not even a debatable question, but has to do with our understanding. And once you grasp why this must be so, there is a crystallization happening at levels in your being you were only vaguely aware of, maybe completely unconscious of.
For what are the gods? These are exteriorizations of psychic archetypes, behavioral complexes, structures, canalizations of instinctual processes, organized as symbols, personified, concretized. The gods, the mythological figures of fairy tales, these are psychic facts. It doesn't matter if we 'believe' (understand) what the gods are, what God is, the gods have us. When you read the great religious and mythological texts of all time, you get to be a Darwin of the mind. These are the surface reflections of the operations of the unconscious, personally, ethnically, and globally.
I cannot at the present time draw out all end implications of what, you must read the collected works of Jung yourself yo really understand. But it is sheer and absolute terror. For Gilgamesh lives in us, so does Thor, Odin (Wotan), the Devil, the wise old man. Any and every God, is, at some level, a psychic fact. And these entities, these higher dimensional structures, which is so hard to conceive of - yet so easy if you are able to be na茂ve and sophisticated at the same time. Metaphysical speculation is beyond the point, what matters is internalizing the childishness juxtaposed with arrogance of the reductive materialist worldview.
One of the upshots of this terrifying new conceptualization of the Gods and our place beneath them - what was world war 2? What was Nazi Germany? When the Christian God (image), died, it doesn't disappear, we don't land in pure utopia, the God-image gets projected elsewhere, and it becomes repressed and unconscious, we regress to earlier times. And what was the God that in Germany previous to its Christianization? It was something more primal, archaic, instinctual, undifferentiated from the beastly. You cannot progress beyond the God-image, you can only regress. When God dies, as Nietzsche so clearly saw - we do not become ubermenschen, we regress back to being beasts. And that is if we are lucky!
There forces beyond us that we cannot speculate metaphysically about, but we can experience aspects of their reality psychically. We can see the collective unconscious operating through time, through peoples and eras, by understanding that these are not just some "words" coughed up by bored mystics - no these are intuitions about truths more truth than anything else.
Real history, to be human at all, is to understand this religious sphere. When you read poetry, mythology, fairy-tales, with this new Jungian perspective - which of course I cannot explain clearly here, I can only vaguely point towards it, you can but shake to your very core. Especially once you realize how little you know about this domain, how little you understand, how enormous your ignorance.
What understanding Jung enables you to do, is ignore very many thinkers. You should read those that has eyes towards the depths, not those who dip only in the surface. I can but give the abosolute highest and strongest recommendations, and hope that my rant gave some sort of meaning.
The impications are manifold, most philosophy is of course waste of time, as it does not take into considerations the perspectives that Jung - god knows how - manage to extract from the soul of the world.
It is just an honor to read something like this. Not enough respect is put on his name, far from it. A true genius, an artist and a seer. Scary, bold, courageous.
Read the collected works of Carl Jung. You will not regret seeing as he sees, if you can bare it.
Jung sees structures in the human soul that people of modernity generally are unable to see, and he explains why. But the main insight, the thing that you will resist continuously, yet, nonetheless, is a fact of existence: Not only does God exist, but all gods of all times exist. This is not even a debatable question, but has to do with our understanding. And once you grasp why this must be so, there is a crystallization happening at levels in your being you were only vaguely aware of, maybe completely unconscious of.
For what are the gods? These are exteriorizations of psychic archetypes, behavioral complexes, structures, canalizations of instinctual processes, organized as symbols, personified, concretized. The gods, the mythological figures of fairy tales, these are psychic facts. It doesn't matter if we 'believe' (understand) what the gods are, what God is, the gods have us. When you read the great religious and mythological texts of all time, you get to be a Darwin of the mind. These are the surface reflections of the operations of the unconscious, personally, ethnically, and globally.
I cannot at the present time draw out all end implications of what, you must read the collected works of Jung yourself yo really understand. But it is sheer and absolute terror. For Gilgamesh lives in us, so does Thor, Odin (Wotan), the Devil, the wise old man. Any and every God, is, at some level, a psychic fact. And these entities, these higher dimensional structures, which is so hard to conceive of - yet so easy if you are able to be na茂ve and sophisticated at the same time. Metaphysical speculation is beyond the point, what matters is internalizing the childishness juxtaposed with arrogance of the reductive materialist worldview.
One of the upshots of this terrifying new conceptualization of the Gods and our place beneath them - what was world war 2? What was Nazi Germany? When the Christian God (image), died, it doesn't disappear, we don't land in pure utopia, the God-image gets projected elsewhere, and it becomes repressed and unconscious, we regress to earlier times. And what was the God that in Germany previous to its Christianization? It was something more primal, archaic, instinctual, undifferentiated from the beastly. You cannot progress beyond the God-image, you can only regress. When God dies, as Nietzsche so clearly saw - we do not become ubermenschen, we regress back to being beasts. And that is if we are lucky!
There forces beyond us that we cannot speculate metaphysically about, but we can experience aspects of their reality psychically. We can see the collective unconscious operating through time, through peoples and eras, by understanding that these are not just some "words" coughed up by bored mystics - no these are intuitions about truths more truth than anything else.
Real history, to be human at all, is to understand this religious sphere. When you read poetry, mythology, fairy-tales, with this new Jungian perspective - which of course I cannot explain clearly here, I can only vaguely point towards it, you can but shake to your very core. Especially once you realize how little you know about this domain, how little you understand, how enormous your ignorance.
What understanding Jung enables you to do, is ignore very many thinkers. You should read those that has eyes towards the depths, not those who dip only in the surface. I can but give the abosolute highest and strongest recommendations, and hope that my rant gave some sort of meaning.
The impications are manifold, most philosophy is of course waste of time, as it does not take into considerations the perspectives that Jung - god knows how - manage to extract from the soul of the world.
It is just an honor to read something like this. Not enough respect is put on his name, far from it. A true genius, an artist and a seer. Scary, bold, courageous.
Read the collected works of Carl Jung. You will not regret seeing as he sees, if you can bare it.
December 21, 2013
Growing up with the space program and the Cold War led, almost inevitably, to an interest in UFOs--a subject covered seriously by such mainline magazines as Life and Look. A child of the generation, I became an early and avid reader of everything I could find about rocketry, space exploration and, yes, UFOs, reading, from left to right, every book the Park Ridge Public Library had on its shelves about flying saucers.
One of these books was C.G. Jung's Flying Saucers: A Modern Myth of Things Seen in the Skies. Like most, but not all, of the other books on the subject, it took UFOs and UFO witnesses seriously. Unlike everyone else, however, the author had, to me, an odd view about "objective" facts. Others saw UFOs as physically objective objects. Jung saw them primarily as psychically objective objects, as symbols of what he called "the Self" while still allowing for the possibility that they had a physical dimension as well.
I read this book by Jung as a pre-teen, then moved on, my interest being in UFOs, not in Jung, just a "Swiss psychiatrist" so far as I was concerned--a confirming authority out of the left field. I only returned to it many years later, while in college, now interested more in Jung than in UFOs and now ploughing my way through all of the volumes of his collected works.
The other part of this book which I'd previously read before purchasing this volume at Great Expectations Bookstore in Evanton, Illinois was his The Undiscovered Self, commonly available as a cheap paperback.
One of these books was C.G. Jung's Flying Saucers: A Modern Myth of Things Seen in the Skies. Like most, but not all, of the other books on the subject, it took UFOs and UFO witnesses seriously. Unlike everyone else, however, the author had, to me, an odd view about "objective" facts. Others saw UFOs as physically objective objects. Jung saw them primarily as psychically objective objects, as symbols of what he called "the Self" while still allowing for the possibility that they had a physical dimension as well.
I read this book by Jung as a pre-teen, then moved on, my interest being in UFOs, not in Jung, just a "Swiss psychiatrist" so far as I was concerned--a confirming authority out of the left field. I only returned to it many years later, while in college, now interested more in Jung than in UFOs and now ploughing my way through all of the volumes of his collected works.
The other part of this book which I'd previously read before purchasing this volume at Great Expectations Bookstore in Evanton, Illinois was his The Undiscovered Self, commonly available as a cheap paperback.
January 10, 2021
Important铆simo libro de las obras completas de Jung. En 茅l uno puede aprender c贸mo se aplica la psicolog铆a profunda a la cr铆tica social y pol铆tica. 脷til, tambi茅n, para profundizar en los principales conceptos de la teor铆a de Jung.
Para Jung, el comunismo de su 茅poca incurre en un absolutismo de la raz贸n que impide la integraci贸n del inconsciente colectivo al nivel del individuo, lo que se traduce en el retorno a una sociedad colectivista que violenta al individuo as铆 como en la proyecci贸n de los contenidos del inconsciente colectivo no integrados en el enemigo pol铆tico: el capitalismo. Para Jung, la democracia liberal es un proyecto pol铆tico superior al comunismo porque respeta la libertad individual necesaria para integrar el inconsciente.
Interesante es tambi茅n la cr铆tica de Jung al nazismo. Para Jung, el nazismo consiste en la regresi贸n a un colectivismo basado en el arquetipo del dios Wotan, a煤n latente en una civilizaci贸n germ谩nica que fuera cristianizada (y, para Jung, civilizada) hace apenas unos mil a帽os.
Vale la pena destacar tambi茅n el libro, incluido en este tomo, dedicado al fen贸meno de los ovnis. Para Jung, los ovnis son proyecciones colectivas del s铆-mismo, constituy茅ndose as铆 en una especie de pseudo-religi贸n tecnocient铆fica.
Para Jung, el comunismo de su 茅poca incurre en un absolutismo de la raz贸n que impide la integraci贸n del inconsciente colectivo al nivel del individuo, lo que se traduce en el retorno a una sociedad colectivista que violenta al individuo as铆 como en la proyecci贸n de los contenidos del inconsciente colectivo no integrados en el enemigo pol铆tico: el capitalismo. Para Jung, la democracia liberal es un proyecto pol铆tico superior al comunismo porque respeta la libertad individual necesaria para integrar el inconsciente.
Interesante es tambi茅n la cr铆tica de Jung al nazismo. Para Jung, el nazismo consiste en la regresi贸n a un colectivismo basado en el arquetipo del dios Wotan, a煤n latente en una civilizaci贸n germ谩nica que fuera cristianizada (y, para Jung, civilizada) hace apenas unos mil a帽os.
Vale la pena destacar tambi茅n el libro, incluido en este tomo, dedicado al fen贸meno de los ovnis. Para Jung, los ovnis son proyecciones colectivas del s铆-mismo, constituy茅ndose as铆 en una especie de pseudo-religi贸n tecnocient铆fica.
July 26, 2024
袣芯谢谢械泻褑懈褟 胁锌械褔邪褌谢械薪懈泄 挟薪谐邪 芯褌 褝锌芯褏懈 袠薪褌械褉斜械谢谢褍屑邪 懈 锌芯褋谢械写芯胁邪胁褕械泄 蟹邪 薪械泄 芯斜褖械械胁褉芯锌械泄褋泻芯泄 褌褉邪胁屑褘. 袩邪褉邪谢谢械谢褜薪芯 褋 锌芯谢懈褌懈褔械褋泻懈屑懈 胁蟹谐谢褟写邪屑懈 挟薪谐邪, 褔懈褌邪褌械谢褜 蟹薪邪泻芯屑懈褌褋褟 褋 芯褋薪芯胁薪褘屑懈 锌芯薪褟褌懈褟屑懈 褞薪谐懈邪薪褋泻芯泄 邪薪邪谢懈褌懈褔械褋泻芯泄 锌褋懈褏芯谢芯谐懈懈. 袗胁褌芯褉 写械屑芯薪褋褌褉懈褉褍械褌 胁薪褍褕懈褌械谢褜薪褘械 锌芯蟹薪邪薪懈褟 胁 械胁褉芯锌械泄褋泻芯泄 屑懈褎芯谢芯谐懈懈 懈 邪谢褏懈屑懈懈.
袙 谐谢邪胁械 "袛褍褕邪 懈 蟹械屑谢褟" 挟薪谐 褉邪蟹胁懈胁邪械褌 懈写械褞 芯 褌芯屑, 褔褌芯 蟹邪胁芯械胁邪褌械谢褜 薪械懈蟹斜械卸薪芯 锌芯写胁械褉谐邪械褌褋褟 邪褋褋懈屑懈谢褟褑懈懈 褋芯 褋褌芯褉芯薪褘 褔褍卸芯泄 锌芯褔胁褘. 袗屑械褉懈泻邪薪褑褘 胁锌懈褌邪谢懈 胁 褋械斜褟 懈薪写械泄褋泻褍褞 懈 薪械谐褉懈褌褟薪褋泻褍褞 泻褍谢褜褌褍褉褍, 袪懈屑 斜褘谢 锌褉芯锌懈褌邪薪 斜谢懈卸薪械胁芯褋褌芯褔薪褘屑懈 泻褍谢褜褌邪屑懈, 邪 褝谢谢懈薪懈蟹屑 锌褉懈薪褢褋 屑芯写褍 薪邪 芯褉懈械薪褌邪谢懈蟹屑 胁 褋邪屑褍 袚褉械褑懈褞:
袙 谐谢邪胁械 "袙芯褌邪薪" 褔械褉械蟹 械胁褉芯锌械泄褋泻懈械 邪褉褏械褌懈锌褘 芯斜褗褟褋薪褟械褌褋褟 锌芯写褗褢屑 锌褉邪胁褘褏 褋懈谢 胁 袝胁褉芯锌械 - 褋邪屑邪褟 胁写芯褏薪芯胁械薪薪邪褟 懈 写褍褕械褖懈锌邪褌械谢褜薪邪褟 懈蟹 褔邪褋褌械泄, 胁芯蟹屑芯卸薪芯 写械谢芯 胁 褌芯屑, 褔褌芯 写芯 锌褉芯褔褌械薪懈褟 褟 斜褘谢 蟹薪邪泻芯屑 褋 挟薪谐芯屑 懈屑械薪薪芯 锌芯 薪械泄:
袚谢邪胁邪 "袨写懈薪 褋芯胁褉械屑械薪薪褘泄 屑懈褎" 褋邪屑邪褟 蟹邪谐邪写芯褔薪邪褟 懈 懈薪褌械褉械褋薪邪褟. 袦邪褋褋芯胁邪褟 芯写械褉卸懈屑芯褋褌褜 谢械褌邪褞褖懈屑懈 褌邪褉械谢泻邪屑懈 胁 1950-褏 谐芯写邪褏 褌褉邪泻褌褍械褌褋褟 褔械褉械蟹 锌褉懈蟹屑褍 泻芯谢谢械泻褌懈胁薪芯谐芯 褋褌褉邪褏邪 锌械褉械写 褟写械褉薪芯泄 胁芯泄薪芯泄. 袙 褋芯褋褌芯褟薪懈懈 锌械褉屑邪薪械薪褌薪芯泄 褌褉械胁芯谐懈 锌械褉械谢芯屑薪芯谐芯 胁褉械屑械薪懈 锌芯褌褉械斜薪芯褋褌褜 胁 锌褋懈褏懈褔械褋泻芯泄 褑械谢芯褋褌薪芯褋褌懈 褍 谢褞写械泄 锌褉芯褟胁谢褟械褌褋褟 褔械褉械蟹 芯斜褉邪蟹褘 邪褉褏械褌懈锌邪 褋邪屑芯褋褌懈 - 泻褉褍谐懈, 褕邪褉褘 懈 芯泻褉褍谐谢芯褋褌懈. 校褌褉邪褌邪 锌褉芯褋褌褉邪薪褋褌胁邪 褋邪泻褉邪谢褜薪芯谐芯 胁 褋胁芯褞 芯褔械褉械写褜 写邪谢邪 芯斜褉邪蟹邪屑 泻褉褍谐芯胁 薪邪 薪械斜械 薪邪褍褔薪芯-褌械褏薪懈褔械褋泻褍褞 芯斜褢褉褌泻褍. 袛邪-写邪, 懈屑械薪薪芯 褌邪泻 褌褉邪泻褌褍械褌 挟薪谐 褎械薪芯屑械薪 袧袥袨, 锌芯 泻褉邪泄薪械泄 屑械褉械 懈褏 胁芯褋锌褉懈褟褌懈械 胁 泻芯谢谢械泻褌懈胁薪芯泄 锌褋懈褏芯谢芯谐懈懈. 袙 褏芯写 懈写褍褌 褋薪褘 锌邪褑懈械薪褌芯胁, 泻邪褉褌懈薪褘 褋芯胁褉械屑械薪薪褘褏 褏褍写芯卸薪懈泻芯胁, 褋褉械写薪械胁械泻芯胁褘械 褋胁懈褌泻懈 懈 谐械褉屑械褌懈褔械褋泻懈械 褌褉邪泻褌邪褌褘.
袙 谐谢邪胁邪褏 芯斜 袗屑械褉懈泻械, 袠薪写懈懈 懈 楔胁械泄褑邪褉懈懈 挟薪谐 锌褘褌邪械褌褋褟 薪邪褖褍锌邪褌褜 泻芯谢谢械泻褌懈胁薪褍褞 写褍褕褍 懈褏 薪邪褉芯写芯胁, 褋褉邪胁薪懈胁邪褟 懈褏 褋 械胁褉芯锌械泄褋泻懈屑懈. 校写懈胁懈褌械谢褜薪芯 锌芯褔褌懈褌械谢褜薪褘泄 褌芯薪 懈 芯写薪芯胁褉械屑械薪薪芯 褋 褝褌懈屑 胁写褍屑褔懈胁芯械 懈蟹褍褔械薪懈械 懈薪邪泻芯胁芯褋褌懈 泻邪卸写芯谐芯.
袩褉械泻褉邪褋薪褘泄 褋褌懈谢褜 懈蟹谢芯卸械薪懈褟 屑褘褋谢械泄 芯屑褉邪褔邪械褌褋褟 斜械褋泻芯薪械褔薪褘屑懈 芯锌懈褋邪薪懈褟屑懈 屑懈褋褋懈懈 锌褋懈褏芯褌械褉邪锌械胁褌邪, 锌芯胁褌芯褉褟褞褖懈屑懈褋褟 芯斜芯褋薪芯胁邪薪懈褟屑懈 械褢 褍薪懈泻邪谢褜薪芯褋褌懈 懈 胁懈蟹懈芯薪械褉褋褌胁邪. 袝写胁邪 谢懈 褝褌芯 褋褌芯懈谢芯 褋胁芯懈褏 褕械褋褌懈褋芯褌 褋褌褉邪薪懈褑. 袨褌写械谢褜薪褘械 谢褍褔懈 锌芯褉懈褑邪薪懈褟 - 蟹邪 "屑芯褉邪谢褜薪芯 薪械锌芯谢薪芯褑械薪薪褘褏" 锌芯褋谢械 1945 谐芯写邪 薪械屑褑械胁.
袙 谐谢邪胁械 "袛褍褕邪 懈 蟹械屑谢褟" 挟薪谐 褉邪蟹胁懈胁邪械褌 懈写械褞 芯 褌芯屑, 褔褌芯 蟹邪胁芯械胁邪褌械谢褜 薪械懈蟹斜械卸薪芯 锌芯写胁械褉谐邪械褌褋褟 邪褋褋懈屑懈谢褟褑懈懈 褋芯 褋褌芯褉芯薪褘 褔褍卸芯泄 锌芯褔胁褘. 袗屑械褉懈泻邪薪褑褘 胁锌懈褌邪谢懈 胁 褋械斜褟 懈薪写械泄褋泻褍褞 懈 薪械谐褉懈褌褟薪褋泻褍褞 泻褍谢褜褌褍褉褍, 袪懈屑 斜褘谢 锌褉芯锌懈褌邪薪 斜谢懈卸薪械胁芯褋褌芯褔薪褘屑懈 泻褍谢褜褌邪屑懈, 邪 褝谢谢懈薪懈蟹屑 锌褉懈薪褢褋 屑芯写褍 薪邪 芯褉懈械薪褌邪谢懈蟹屑 胁 褋邪屑褍 袚褉械褑懈褞:
"袨褌褔褍卸写械薪懈械 芯褌 斜械褋褋芯蟹薪邪褌械谢褜薪芯谐芯, 芯褌褉褘胁 芯褌 懈褋褌芯褉懈褔械褋泻芯泄 芯斜褍褋谢芯胁谢械薪薪芯褋褌懈 褔褉械胁邪褌褘 谢懈褕械薪懈械屑 泻芯褉薪械泄".
袙 谐谢邪胁械 "袙芯褌邪薪" 褔械褉械蟹 械胁褉芯锌械泄褋泻懈械 邪褉褏械褌懈锌褘 芯斜褗褟褋薪褟械褌褋褟 锌芯写褗褢屑 锌褉邪胁褘褏 褋懈谢 胁 袝胁褉芯锌械 - 褋邪屑邪褟 胁写芯褏薪芯胁械薪薪邪褟 懈 写褍褕械褖懈锌邪褌械谢褜薪邪褟 懈蟹 褔邪褋褌械泄, 胁芯蟹屑芯卸薪芯 写械谢芯 胁 褌芯屑, 褔褌芯 写芯 锌褉芯褔褌械薪懈褟 褟 斜褘谢 蟹薪邪泻芯屑 褋 挟薪谐芯屑 懈屑械薪薪芯 锌芯 薪械泄:
"薪械锌芯褋褌懈卸懈屑邪褟 谐谢褍斜懈薪邪 褏邪褉邪泻褌械褉邪 袙芯褌邪薪邪 芯斜褗褟褋薪褟械褌 薪邪褑懈芯薪邪谢-褋芯褑懈邪谢懈蟹屑 谢褍褔褕械, 薪械卸械谢懈 胁褋械 褍泻邪蟹邪薪薪褘械 褉邪褑懈芯薪邪谢褜薪褘械 褎邪泻褌芯褉褘 胁 懈褏 褋芯胁芯泻褍锌薪芯褋褌懈".
袚谢邪胁邪 "袨写懈薪 褋芯胁褉械屑械薪薪褘泄 屑懈褎" 褋邪屑邪褟 蟹邪谐邪写芯褔薪邪褟 懈 懈薪褌械褉械褋薪邪褟. 袦邪褋褋芯胁邪褟 芯写械褉卸懈屑芯褋褌褜 谢械褌邪褞褖懈屑懈 褌邪褉械谢泻邪屑懈 胁 1950-褏 谐芯写邪褏 褌褉邪泻褌褍械褌褋褟 褔械褉械蟹 锌褉懈蟹屑褍 泻芯谢谢械泻褌懈胁薪芯谐芯 褋褌褉邪褏邪 锌械褉械写 褟写械褉薪芯泄 胁芯泄薪芯泄. 袙 褋芯褋褌芯褟薪懈懈 锌械褉屑邪薪械薪褌薪芯泄 褌褉械胁芯谐懈 锌械褉械谢芯屑薪芯谐芯 胁褉械屑械薪懈 锌芯褌褉械斜薪芯褋褌褜 胁 锌褋懈褏懈褔械褋泻芯泄 褑械谢芯褋褌薪芯褋褌懈 褍 谢褞写械泄 锌褉芯褟胁谢褟械褌褋褟 褔械褉械蟹 芯斜褉邪蟹褘 邪褉褏械褌懈锌邪 褋邪屑芯褋褌懈 - 泻褉褍谐懈, 褕邪褉褘 懈 芯泻褉褍谐谢芯褋褌懈. 校褌褉邪褌邪 锌褉芯褋褌褉邪薪褋褌胁邪 褋邪泻褉邪谢褜薪芯谐芯 胁 褋胁芯褞 芯褔械褉械写褜 写邪谢邪 芯斜褉邪蟹邪屑 泻褉褍谐芯胁 薪邪 薪械斜械 薪邪褍褔薪芯-褌械褏薪懈褔械褋泻褍褞 芯斜褢褉褌泻褍. 袛邪-写邪, 懈屑械薪薪芯 褌邪泻 褌褉邪泻褌褍械褌 挟薪谐 褎械薪芯屑械薪 袧袥袨, 锌芯 泻褉邪泄薪械泄 屑械褉械 懈褏 胁芯褋锌褉懈褟褌懈械 胁 泻芯谢谢械泻褌懈胁薪芯泄 锌褋懈褏芯谢芯谐懈懈. 袙 褏芯写 懈写褍褌 褋薪褘 锌邪褑懈械薪褌芯胁, 泻邪褉褌懈薪褘 褋芯胁褉械屑械薪薪褘褏 褏褍写芯卸薪懈泻芯胁, 褋褉械写薪械胁械泻芯胁褘械 褋胁懈褌泻懈 懈 谐械褉屑械褌懈褔械褋泻懈械 褌褉邪泻褌邪褌褘.
袙 谐谢邪胁邪褏 芯斜 袗屑械褉懈泻械, 袠薪写懈懈 懈 楔胁械泄褑邪褉懈懈 挟薪谐 锌褘褌邪械褌褋褟 薪邪褖褍锌邪褌褜 泻芯谢谢械泻褌懈胁薪褍褞 写褍褕褍 懈褏 薪邪褉芯写芯胁, 褋褉邪胁薪懈胁邪褟 懈褏 褋 械胁褉芯锌械泄褋泻懈屑懈. 校写懈胁懈褌械谢褜薪芯 锌芯褔褌懈褌械谢褜薪褘泄 褌芯薪 懈 芯写薪芯胁褉械屑械薪薪芯 褋 褝褌懈屑 胁写褍屑褔懈胁芯械 懈蟹褍褔械薪懈械 懈薪邪泻芯胁芯褋褌懈 泻邪卸写芯谐芯.
袩褉械泻褉邪褋薪褘泄 褋褌懈谢褜 懈蟹谢芯卸械薪懈褟 屑褘褋谢械泄 芯屑褉邪褔邪械褌褋褟 斜械褋泻芯薪械褔薪褘屑懈 芯锌懈褋邪薪懈褟屑懈 屑懈褋褋懈懈 锌褋懈褏芯褌械褉邪锌械胁褌邪, 锌芯胁褌芯褉褟褞褖懈屑懈褋褟 芯斜芯褋薪芯胁邪薪懈褟屑懈 械褢 褍薪懈泻邪谢褜薪芯褋褌懈 懈 胁懈蟹懈芯薪械褉褋褌胁邪. 袝写胁邪 谢懈 褝褌芯 褋褌芯懈谢芯 褋胁芯懈褏 褕械褋褌懈褋芯褌 褋褌褉邪薪懈褑. 袨褌写械谢褜薪褘械 谢褍褔懈 锌芯褉懈褑邪薪懈褟 - 蟹邪 "屑芯褉邪谢褜薪芯 薪械锌芯谢薪芯褑械薪薪褘褏" 锌芯褋谢械 1945 谐芯写邪 薪械屑褑械胁.
July 29, 2024
Reading Carl Jung, he is changing my life. He is also demonstrating why my Evangelical education was a complete waste of time and money. With every page, with every word, he answers all theological questions. For less money, I could had a better education by reading Jung. I know I am smarter than all my theology professors, with their Ph.ds, after reading Jung. What a complete waste of time and money going to college. I could had gotten a better education by reading Jung.
All the questions asked in Christian apologetics, every question could had been answered by Carl Jung. Alas, the evangelical church ignores or even rejects Carl Jung. The conservative evangelical Church is a pseudo-intellectual movement, filled with liars and hypocrites. Dr. William Lane Craig with his double doctorate in lying and being a hypocrite. Dr. Ravi Zacharias and his seven Ph.Ds from Cambridge, seven ph.ds in bullshitiing the world, seven ph.ds in being a fraud. The evangelical church never mentioned Carl Jung. My theology professor from my undergraduate studies, he confessed that he never read Freud. He does not understand philosophy even though he has a PhD in theology and a bachelor in philosophy. I hate the evangelical church. I hate the evangelical church because these idiots lied to me.
All the questions asked in Christian apologetics, every question could had been answered by Carl Jung. Alas, the evangelical church ignores or even rejects Carl Jung. The conservative evangelical Church is a pseudo-intellectual movement, filled with liars and hypocrites. Dr. William Lane Craig with his double doctorate in lying and being a hypocrite. Dr. Ravi Zacharias and his seven Ph.Ds from Cambridge, seven ph.ds in bullshitiing the world, seven ph.ds in being a fraud. The evangelical church never mentioned Carl Jung. My theology professor from my undergraduate studies, he confessed that he never read Freud. He does not understand philosophy even though he has a PhD in theology and a bachelor in philosophy. I hate the evangelical church. I hate the evangelical church because these idiots lied to me.
March 3, 2018
Dar vienas galingas Jungo ra拧t懦 tomas. 艩寞kart apie didesnius, visuomeninius rei拧kinius. Ra拧yta tarpukaryje, 3-4 de拧imtme膷iuose, pa膷iame verdan膷i懦 寞tamp懦 katile 艩veicarijoje, Vokietijoje. J懦 refleksija suteikia daug peno apm膮stymams apie 啪mogaus psichologij膮. Jung'as vadovaujasi savo tvirtu nepalau啪iamu principu: individo psichologija atspindi taut懦/masi懦 psichologij膮. 漠啪valgos 寞tikinamos.
O 膷ia vy拧nait臈 i拧 拧io kruop拧膷iai paruo拧to pyrago:
"But I speak not to nations, only to the individual few, for whom it goes without saying that cultural values do not drop down like manna from heaven, but are created by the hands of individuals. If things go wrong in the world, this is because something is wrong with the individual, because something is wrong with me. Therefore, if I am sensible, I shall put myself right first. For this I need鈥攂ecause outside authority no longer means anything to me鈥攁 knowledge of the innermost foundations of my being, in order that I may base myself firmly on the eternal facts of the human psyche."
O 膷ia vy拧nait臈 i拧 拧io kruop拧膷iai paruo拧to pyrago:
"But I speak not to nations, only to the individual few, for whom it goes without saying that cultural values do not drop down like manna from heaven, but are created by the hands of individuals. If things go wrong in the world, this is because something is wrong with the individual, because something is wrong with me. Therefore, if I am sensible, I shall put myself right first. For this I need鈥攂ecause outside authority no longer means anything to me鈥攁 knowledge of the innermost foundations of my being, in order that I may base myself firmly on the eternal facts of the human psyche."
June 3, 2021
Tirando os textos sociais do Jung, s贸 qualidade
August 21, 2023
Some highly enjoyable essays while others weren't as impressive. Overall, well organized and delivers important ideas. I've always been fascinated on the individual and his relation to society. This likely stemmed from inferiority during my schooling years, where in general, I had felt as if society had failed me. It had neglected many parts that I found as being vital towards my way of being; something I had to defend and protect. Now, as an adult, it is something I can refine and seek to understand as a personal endeavor.
"The deciding factor appears to be something else: it proceeds not from the traditional moral code but from the unconscious foundation of the personality. The decision is drawn from dark and deep waters. It is true that these conflicts of duty are solved very often and very conveniently by a decision in accordance with custom, that is, by suppressing one of the opposites. But that is not always so. If one is sufficiently conscientious the conflict is endured to the end, and a creative solution emerges which is produced by the constellated archetype and possesses that compelling authority not unjustly characterized as the voice of God. The nature of the solution is in accord with the deepest foundations of the personality as well as with its wholeness; it embraces conscious and unconscious and therefore transcends the ego." Carl Jung, Civilization in Transition, Pg. 454-455
It is all the more important, more so, with the advent of social media and online influence.
"The deciding factor appears to be something else: it proceeds not from the traditional moral code but from the unconscious foundation of the personality. The decision is drawn from dark and deep waters. It is true that these conflicts of duty are solved very often and very conveniently by a decision in accordance with custom, that is, by suppressing one of the opposites. But that is not always so. If one is sufficiently conscientious the conflict is endured to the end, and a creative solution emerges which is produced by the constellated archetype and possesses that compelling authority not unjustly characterized as the voice of God. The nature of the solution is in accord with the deepest foundations of the personality as well as with its wholeness; it embraces conscious and unconscious and therefore transcends the ego." Carl Jung, Civilization in Transition, Pg. 454-455
It is all the more important, more so, with the advent of social media and online influence.
August 14, 2020
This was excellent.
I wasn't sure how I'd get on with it though - I'd only read a couple of Jung's books before this so only had a basic understanding of his terminology. It turned out that it was all fairly contemporary - while a basic knowledge was useful it wasn't essential.
There was some repetition in explaining certain concepts though - but as this is a collection of separate writings rather than a series, it's to be expected I suppose.
There is one issue though - at times it's unclear whether Jung is expressing his professional opinion or his personal opinion. This is made all the more important given that these days some of the things he says would NOT sit comfortably with people at all ... I'm talking about statements he makes about sensitive issues such as race ("Racial infection is a most serious mental and moral problem where the primitive outnumbers the white man") and women ("[Women develop] a kind of rigid intellectuality based on so-called principles, and backs them up with a whole host of arguments which always just miss the mark in the most irritating way, and always inject a little something into the problem that is not really there") ...
I wasn't sure how I'd get on with it though - I'd only read a couple of Jung's books before this so only had a basic understanding of his terminology. It turned out that it was all fairly contemporary - while a basic knowledge was useful it wasn't essential.
There was some repetition in explaining certain concepts though - but as this is a collection of separate writings rather than a series, it's to be expected I suppose.
There is one issue though - at times it's unclear whether Jung is expressing his professional opinion or his personal opinion. This is made all the more important given that these days some of the things he says would NOT sit comfortably with people at all ... I'm talking about statements he makes about sensitive issues such as race ("Racial infection is a most serious mental and moral problem where the primitive outnumbers the white man") and women ("[Women develop] a kind of rigid intellectuality based on so-called principles, and backs them up with a whole host of arguments which always just miss the mark in the most irritating way, and always inject a little something into the problem that is not really there") ...
December 5, 2016
A typically great and illuminating collection of Jung's wisdom. Most interesting are his insights into the influence of the Wotan archetype upon the people of 20th Century Europe (Germany in particular).
Jung here also presents a core and vital piece of work in 'the Undiscovered Self'. We find Jung continuing some of the Nietzschean aspects of his work, urging man towards a realisation of the self and separation from the herd. Jung's employment of terms such as 'herd' and 'plebiscite's' betray the positive influence of Nietzsche upon his own philosophy.
Jung here also presents a core and vital piece of work in 'the Undiscovered Self'. We find Jung continuing some of the Nietzschean aspects of his work, urging man towards a realisation of the self and separation from the herd. Jung's employment of terms such as 'herd' and 'plebiscite's' betray the positive influence of Nietzsche upon his own philosophy.
July 24, 2015
O colectie de mai multe studii de maturitate in care sunt abordate transformarile societatii in cele doua razboaie mondiale din perspectiva psihologica. Este frapanta asemanarea intre ceea ce se credea la nivel social dupa primul razboi mondial si ceea ce se crede acum la o suta de ani dupa. De asemenea este prezentata aproape profetic iminenta celui de al doilea razboi inca din 1924 desi nimeni nu mai credea in aceasta varianta. O adevarata lectie despre dinamicile colective.
February 25, 2023
C.G. Jung begins the anthology 鈥淐ivilization in Transition鈥� with his essay 鈥淭he Role of the Unconscious.鈥� Sigmund Freud maintained there was a personal unconscious. This consisted of memories that were forgotten or suppressed, but which influenced the ways one thinks and behaves, usually in unfavorable ways. Jung maintained that behind the personal unconscious there is a collective unconscious. This consists of collective memories humans share of instincts that had survival value in the past. He argued that these appear in dreams, under hypnotism, and in fairytales, myths, and legends. They appear as archetypal situations and characters.
Jung鈥檚 theories of the collective unconscious initially attracted me to his writings when I was in my late twenties. Since then I have become skeptical of this aspect of Jung鈥檚 thinking.
I continue to believe that the collective unconscious exists, but that it is less extensive than Jung maintains, and that it has little or no influence on mental illness or curing mental illness.
Most of the essays in 鈥淐ivilization in Transition鈥� concern current events and developments at the time Jung wrote them.
I do not believe that contemporary Republicans are morally equivalent to the German Nazis living when he wrote 鈥淓ssays on Contemporary Events.鈥�
Nevertheless, I see most Republicans as suffering what Jung called a 鈥渕ass psychoses.鈥� For example, they believe that Donald Trump won the presidential election of 2016, but that it was stolen from him. To believe such a thing one must believe in a conspiracy involving not only the Democrat Party, and the mainstream media, but also the polling agencies and the judiciary, including the Supreme Court. According to public opinion surveys Trump is the only president on record who never had majority support during his term. Many of the judges who determined that Joe Biden won legitimately were chosen by Republicans, even by Trump.
Despite the growing destructiveness of the weather, most Republicans continue to disbelieve in the greenhouse effect. Despite the economic record of the administrations of Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush, and Trump most Republicans continue to believe that tax cuts pay for themselves, and will at some undisclosed time in the future pay off the national debt.
In Jung鈥檚 essay, 鈥淭he Undiscovered Self鈥� Jung writes, 鈥淎ll mass movements, as one might expect, slip with the greatest ease down an inclined plane made up of large number. Where the many are there is security; what the many believe must of course be true.鈥�
The Democrats are equally guilty of mass psychosis. Unlike the Republicans, they try to punish those who challenge their delusions. During the past century IQ tests have proven their ability to predict academic and economic success, and other favorable life events. Nevertheless, liberals continue to maintain that IQ tests measure nothing of value and that 鈥淭he Bell Curve鈥� is pseudo science. Liberals also maintain that racial differences in average non cosmetic characteristics do not exist, do not matter, or that 鈥淩ace is only a social construct.鈥� Geneticists who find genes that influence intelligence and criminal behavior risk their careers, if they draw too much attention to their discoveries.
Even many Republicans pretend to believe in wokish untruths. In the Preface to his essay 鈥淔lying Saucers: A modern Myth of Things Seen in the Skies,鈥� Jung writes, 鈥渘ews affirming the existence of Ufos is welcome, but skepticism seems to be undesirable.鈥�
The same can be said of misconceptions about human nature and human potential which since the early 1960鈥檚, have lead to reforms that have failed and government spending programs that have wasted trillions of dollars without having the desired effects. Social reforms and social welfare spending have sometimes exacerbated the problems they were designed to solve.
Tens of millions of Americans on each end of the political spectrum insist on believing what is manifestly not true. 鈥淐ivilization in Transition鈥� is valuable in drawing attention to civilization鈥檚 unfortunate transitions.
Jung鈥檚 theories of the collective unconscious initially attracted me to his writings when I was in my late twenties. Since then I have become skeptical of this aspect of Jung鈥檚 thinking.
I continue to believe that the collective unconscious exists, but that it is less extensive than Jung maintains, and that it has little or no influence on mental illness or curing mental illness.
Most of the essays in 鈥淐ivilization in Transition鈥� concern current events and developments at the time Jung wrote them.
I do not believe that contemporary Republicans are morally equivalent to the German Nazis living when he wrote 鈥淓ssays on Contemporary Events.鈥�
Nevertheless, I see most Republicans as suffering what Jung called a 鈥渕ass psychoses.鈥� For example, they believe that Donald Trump won the presidential election of 2016, but that it was stolen from him. To believe such a thing one must believe in a conspiracy involving not only the Democrat Party, and the mainstream media, but also the polling agencies and the judiciary, including the Supreme Court. According to public opinion surveys Trump is the only president on record who never had majority support during his term. Many of the judges who determined that Joe Biden won legitimately were chosen by Republicans, even by Trump.
Despite the growing destructiveness of the weather, most Republicans continue to disbelieve in the greenhouse effect. Despite the economic record of the administrations of Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush, and Trump most Republicans continue to believe that tax cuts pay for themselves, and will at some undisclosed time in the future pay off the national debt.
In Jung鈥檚 essay, 鈥淭he Undiscovered Self鈥� Jung writes, 鈥淎ll mass movements, as one might expect, slip with the greatest ease down an inclined plane made up of large number. Where the many are there is security; what the many believe must of course be true.鈥�
The Democrats are equally guilty of mass psychosis. Unlike the Republicans, they try to punish those who challenge their delusions. During the past century IQ tests have proven their ability to predict academic and economic success, and other favorable life events. Nevertheless, liberals continue to maintain that IQ tests measure nothing of value and that 鈥淭he Bell Curve鈥� is pseudo science. Liberals also maintain that racial differences in average non cosmetic characteristics do not exist, do not matter, or that 鈥淩ace is only a social construct.鈥� Geneticists who find genes that influence intelligence and criminal behavior risk their careers, if they draw too much attention to their discoveries.
Even many Republicans pretend to believe in wokish untruths. In the Preface to his essay 鈥淔lying Saucers: A modern Myth of Things Seen in the Skies,鈥� Jung writes, 鈥渘ews affirming the existence of Ufos is welcome, but skepticism seems to be undesirable.鈥�
The same can be said of misconceptions about human nature and human potential which since the early 1960鈥檚, have lead to reforms that have failed and government spending programs that have wasted trillions of dollars without having the desired effects. Social reforms and social welfare spending have sometimes exacerbated the problems they were designed to solve.
Tens of millions of Americans on each end of the political spectrum insist on believing what is manifestly not true. 鈥淐ivilization in Transition鈥� is valuable in drawing attention to civilization鈥檚 unfortunate transitions.
July 27, 2024
This is not a book that dives into Jung's theories in the technical sense, although they are of course there, but a book that collects various articles about his general views on society, politics, and the state of the world whether in the years between the world wars and the years after with the Iron Curtain which brought with it concerns of a new kind.
It will not be easy for today's reader to read the generalizations that Jung attributes to different populations, whether nationalities, races, blacks, Jews, Americans, etc. Jung is a son of his time, in a world where such writing was accepted and widespread, and there are also some interesting things to derive from his insights.
A more negative aspect to this point comes precisely in the book's appendix, which contains articles from the time he served as president of the Psychologists Society, a position i wish he would have given up earlier, and which has entangled him with criticism as if he was anti-Semitic.
He was undoubtedly not anti-Semitic, he was highly critical of the nazis in real-time, and even helped his Jewish friends to maintain the profession of psychotherapy during the difficult years in Nazi Germany. but his insistence on dealing with the Jewish question, even if originally many years before the war, was certainly not read in the right context in the catastrophic political atmosphere of Europe in the 1930s. In another book, the Oxford Introduction to Jung, a fascinating chapter is devoted to the subject of the criticism against Jung and the entanglement with that presidency in those bad years of Germany.
It will not be easy for today's reader to read the generalizations that Jung attributes to different populations, whether nationalities, races, blacks, Jews, Americans, etc. Jung is a son of his time, in a world where such writing was accepted and widespread, and there are also some interesting things to derive from his insights.
A more negative aspect to this point comes precisely in the book's appendix, which contains articles from the time he served as president of the Psychologists Society, a position i wish he would have given up earlier, and which has entangled him with criticism as if he was anti-Semitic.
He was undoubtedly not anti-Semitic, he was highly critical of the nazis in real-time, and even helped his Jewish friends to maintain the profession of psychotherapy during the difficult years in Nazi Germany. but his insistence on dealing with the Jewish question, even if originally many years before the war, was certainly not read in the right context in the catastrophic political atmosphere of Europe in the 1930s. In another book, the Oxford Introduction to Jung, a fascinating chapter is devoted to the subject of the criticism against Jung and the entanglement with that presidency in those bad years of Germany.
March 29, 2025
"Civilization in Transition," is like Jung diving deep into the human mind to explain why things are the way they are in society. He argues that the unconscious plays a huge role in everything from individual quirks to big world events, even saying that stuff like the European conflicts had psychological origins. He really stresses how crucial it is for each of us to understand ourselves instead of just blindly going along with the group. Plus, he looks at all sorts of interesting things 鈥� from dreams to societal shifts like the rise of Nazism and even the "modern myth" of UFOs 鈥� as clues to what's brewing in our collective unconscious. It鈥檚 basically Jung saying that if we want to get a grip on the world, we've gotta look inwards first.
August 12, 2023
Many topics are explored in this book but many of them focus on the effect the 2 world wars had on the world.
Maybe it was easy to notice after the fact, but the power of collectivity and a desire to defer responsibility to someone outside one鈥檚 self is elevated to the main stage at that time.
Jung鈥檚 toys with the tension between one鈥檚 individuality and one鈥檚 collectivity. I know of the concept of collective unconscious, but in this CW, it鈥檚 made more clear what he means in relation to individuality vs collectivity.
I enjoyed most of the topics Jung wrote about, but the book as a whole felt a little too much like a mixed bag.
If I read this again I would stick to the first few parts.
Maybe it was easy to notice after the fact, but the power of collectivity and a desire to defer responsibility to someone outside one鈥檚 self is elevated to the main stage at that time.
Jung鈥檚 toys with the tension between one鈥檚 individuality and one鈥檚 collectivity. I know of the concept of collective unconscious, but in this CW, it鈥檚 made more clear what he means in relation to individuality vs collectivity.
I enjoyed most of the topics Jung wrote about, but the book as a whole felt a little too much like a mixed bag.
If I read this again I would stick to the first few parts.
February 11, 2025
Jung鈥檚 collection of writings that centers around contemporary society and politics. My favorite was 鈥淔lying Saucers: A Modern Myth of Things Seen in the Skies鈥�. Most of his discussion is more on the viewpoint of UFOs from the unconscious, as seen through exploring dreams and art that feature UFOs, and what people project upon the phenomenon. He relates these to other celestial beings, such as angels and the like. He does contend briefly with the physicality of them as evidenced through appearing on radar. He has no final answers as to what they are, whether they are 鈥渟omething psychic that is endowed with certain physical properties鈥� or something more conventional.
Other topics discussed are the Cold War and relationship between the USA and USSR and also mass movements/ideologies. These are constellations of pre-existing archetypes that modern society is activating in different ways. One of excerpt I liked:
鈥淚n the same essay I uttered the almost banal truth: 鈥淭he best, just because it is the best, holds the seed of evil, and there is nothing so bad but good can come of it.鈥�6 I lay particular stress on this sentence, because it always put me in a mood of caution when I had to judge of any particular manifestation of the unconscious. The contents of the collective unconscious, the archetypes, with which we are concerned in any occurrence of psychic mass-phenomena, are always bipolar: they have both a positive and a negative side. Whenever an archetype appears things become critical, and it is impossible to foresee what turn they will take. As a rule this depends on the way consciousness reacts to the situation. During a collective manifestation of archetypes there is always a great danger of a mass movement, and a catastrophe can be avoided only if the effect of the archetype can be intercepted and assimilated by a sufficiently large majority of individuals. At the very least there must be a certain number of individuals who are still capable of making their influence felt.鈥�
Other topics discussed are the Cold War and relationship between the USA and USSR and also mass movements/ideologies. These are constellations of pre-existing archetypes that modern society is activating in different ways. One of excerpt I liked:
鈥淚n the same essay I uttered the almost banal truth: 鈥淭he best, just because it is the best, holds the seed of evil, and there is nothing so bad but good can come of it.鈥�6 I lay particular stress on this sentence, because it always put me in a mood of caution when I had to judge of any particular manifestation of the unconscious. The contents of the collective unconscious, the archetypes, with which we are concerned in any occurrence of psychic mass-phenomena, are always bipolar: they have both a positive and a negative side. Whenever an archetype appears things become critical, and it is impossible to foresee what turn they will take. As a rule this depends on the way consciousness reacts to the situation. During a collective manifestation of archetypes there is always a great danger of a mass movement, and a catastrophe can be avoided only if the effect of the archetype can be intercepted and assimilated by a sufficiently large majority of individuals. At the very least there must be a certain number of individuals who are still capable of making their influence felt.鈥�
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January 8, 2012
Amazing look at how Jung applied his theories to society and how the individual can live in a society.
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