The Undiscovered Self:

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The Johari Window can be used as a guide to different aspects of relating, and provide a path to increased self-awareness through openness, connectedness, and communication. In terms of the window diagram, this means increasing the size of the Public or Open Self, or decreasing the size of the ‘unknown’ quadrants. This causes the following conflict: A single person is treated as a social unit based on average data. Therefore, always misunderstood and underappreciated. We avoid remembering these internal malicious thoughts for a good reason. We don’t want to feel bad about ourselves and we don’t want to accept that what we’re doing is somehow hurting us or others around us.

Collected Works of C.G. Jung, Volume 3: Psychogenesis of Mental Disease". Princeton University Press . Retrieved 2014-01-17. Dreams. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press (compilation from Collected Works Vols. 4, 8, 12, 16), ISBN 0-691-01792-1 Psychology and Religion The Terry Lectures. New Haven: Yale University Press. (contained in Psychology and Religion: West and East Collected Works Vol. 11 ISBN 0-691-09772-0). Avoid large communities: The bigger the crowd gets, the less helpful it becomes. The focus becomes a goal that is not at all focused on the individual needs, but on an idea that is presented by a leader who simply knows how to manipulate the masses. This concept creates an important conclusion that requires our attention: We can only survive in the world if we are willing to give away a portion of our individuality. After all, we can’t create a fully functional state on our own. So the question is: Is this all worth it? Few people can “escape” the State and go live in the woods on their own (not needing anything from others). After all, we need other people and communities to advance in life (plus jobs, hospitals, protection, etc.). However, the important thing here is that we’re asking the question and considering our options. If we don’t reach this realization – that mass movements are robbing us of ourselves – we’ll always live a delusional reality. In other words, the question has already been answered for us. We will join groups hoping to feel more ourselves not knowing that we are actually further distancing ourselves from our real desires. What Jung has to convey is so truly original and so far ranging in its implications that I suspect this book will be a real challenge even to those most psychologically sophisticated. What he here presents in rich and documented detail can perhaps best be described as an anatomy of the objective psyche. Editions [ edit ]

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In this seminal book, Jung compellingly argues that only then can we begin to cope with the dangers posed by mass society—“the sum total of individuals”—and resist the potential threats posed by those in power. However, the cultural hierarchy created and powered by the State is sadly working to our disadvantage. Our responsibility to take care of ourselves is replaced by constantly taking care of others and their interest – never actually figuring out what “I want” and “what is good for me.” Instead of the concrete individual, you have the names of organizations and, at the highest point, the abstract idea of the State as the principle of political reality. The moral responsibility of the individual is then inevitably replaced by the policy of the State (raison d’etat). Instead of moral and mental differentiation of the individual, you have public welfare and the raising of the living standard. The goal and meaning of individual life (which is the only real life) no longer lie in the individual development but in the policy of the State, which is thrust upon the individual from outside and consists in the execution of an abstract idea which ultimately tends to attract all life to itself. The individual is increasingly deprived of the moral decision as to how he should live his own life, and instead is ruled, fed, clothed, and educated as a social unit, accommodated in the appropriate housing unit, and amused in accordance with the standards that give pleasure and satisfaction to the masses. The rulers, in their turn, are just as much social units as the ruled, and are distinguished only by the fact they are specialized mouthpieces of State doctrine. They do not need to be personalities capable of judgment, but thoroughgoing specialists who are unusable outside their line of business. State policy decides what shall be taught and studied.” In society there are two major powers of mass organization: the Church and the State. In the second chapter, Jung makes various comparisons between the two to point out the similarities both have when it comes to controlling the masses. Both inspire fear and terrorize people in demand of obedience. He gives a clear example in which he says that socialist dictatorships can take the place of God, becoming religions and therefore, state slavery becomes a form of worship. Mass thinking makes people blind and unable to have personal interactions in which different ideas can be exchanged and personal knowledge attained. He then goes on to express his deep concern with religious fanaticism. He believes this to be a psychic infection almost impossible to kill. He states that belief is no substitute for inner experience, and that the fanatics don’t see or understand this. Due to this infection he believes than men are scared, enslaved, and endangered. The more statistically based the treatment is and the more it’s based on general knowledge, the more the personal healing will fail. Not that your approach will be necessarily wrong, but because it’s incredibly general and not attuned to the actual individual.

Extracted from Volumes 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 13 and 14. Extracts are also taken from Dream Analysis, C. G. Jung: Letters (Volumes 1 and 2) and C. G. Jung Speaking. A collection of Jung's most important contributions to the depth... The core message of this book aims to explain that individually matters and that it should be explored and cherished. Paradoxically, the laws and the parties that are supposedly helping individuals are actually focusing on attracting even more followers – to amass even more power for themselves, careless of the individuals constituting their party. The Psychology of Dementia Praecox (1st ed.). New York: Nervous and Mental Disease Publ. Co. (Contained in The Psychogenesis of Mental Disease, CW 3.) This is the disease now known as schizophrenia. In contrast to the subjectivism of the conscious mind the unconscious is objective, manifesting itself mainly in the form of contrary feelings, fantasies, emotions, impulses and dreams, none of which one makes oneself but which come upon one objectively. Even” Psychological Types, or, The Psychology of Individuation, with H. G. Baynes London: Kegan Paul Trench Trubner. (Collected Works Vol.6 ISBN 0-691-01813-8)

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Triumph over the psyche can happen by looking deep down inside us. When we stop observing the ever-expanding outer world and look at our inner self. Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle. (From Vol. 8. of the Collected Works of C. G. Jung) C. G. Jung

However, if this becomes habitual, he will start to heavily neglect his unconscious desires and what the rest of the self wants – self-expression. This becomes a problem at some point but it only reveals itself as a problem when, as Carl Jung puts it, “consciousness is no longer able to neglect or suppress his instinctual side.” Jung was intrigued from early in his career with coincidences, especially those surprising juxtapositions that scientific rationality could not adequately explain. He discussed these ideas with Albert Einstein before World War I, but... This might sound egoistic and neglectful for the surrounding people – and it actually might be. But the focus in the book is more on self-exploration and understanding ourselves, so we can improve ourselves. Memories, Dreams, Reflections [autobiography], recorded and edited by Aniela Jaffé. London: Collins. ISBN 0-679-72395-1.The paradox of the text is that weak individuals need support from the strong to flourish. Conversely, strong individuals use the weak, careless of their real desires for their own selfish needs. The examples are countless – children need support from parents, employees need a job, citizens need politicians. The solution here is not easily achievable – explore yourself to build a resilient inner character. Freud & Psychoanalysis, volume 4 in The Collected Works, contains most of Jung's published writings on Sigmund Freud and psychoanalysis from 1906-1916, with two papers from later years. The former period extends from the time of enthusiastic collaboration between Jung and Freud, through that when Jung's growing appreciation of religious experience and his criticism of Freud's emphasis on psychopathology led to their final break. [13] Subjects covered include Freud's theory of hysteria, the analysis of dreams, the theory of psychoanalysis, and more. [14]

This is a comprehensive summary of the book The Undiscovered Self: The Dilemma of the Individual in Modern Society by Carl Gustav Jung. Covering the key ideas and proposing practical ways for achieving what’s mentioned in the text. Written by book fanatic and online librarian Ivaylo Durmonski. Supporting Membersget access to a deluxe printable of the summary. The Book In Three Or More Sentences: Collected Works of C.G. Jung, Volume 9 (Part 2): Aion: Researches into the Phenomenology of the Self". Princeton University Press . Retrieved 2014-01-19. Collected Works of C.G. Jung, Volume 18: The Symbolic Life". Princeton University Press . Retrieved 2014-01-20. It contains " On the Psychology of Dementia Praecox" (1907), which Abraham Brill described as "indispensable for every student of psychiatry;" as well as nine other papers in psychiatry, all of which demonstrating Jung's original thinking about the origins of mental illness and give insight into the development of his later concepts such as the archetypes and the collective unconscious. [11] Among the latter nine works, " The Content of the Psychoses" (1908) and two papers from 1956 and 1958, respectively, discuss Jung's conclusions after long experience in the psychotherapy of schizophrenia. [12] And here, by objects, Carl Jung is not referring only to physical things, but also to religion and the State.Based on the text, “thanks” to this biased approach, we create a false self-image about ourselves which further buries the important parts of our psyche. What’s inside us remains hidden from us because we analyze ourselves based only on what is known, what is available to us. The man who looks only outside and quails before the big battalions has no resource with which to combat the evidence of his senses and his reason.”