The Undiscovered Self (Routledge Great Minds)

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A study of the analogies between alchemy, Christian dogma, and psychological symbolism. Revised translation, with new bibliography and index. The dictator State has one great advantage over bourgeois reason: along with the individual it swallows up his religious forces. The State takes the place of God; that is why, seen from this angle, the socialist dictatorships are religions and State slavery is a form of worship. But the religious function cannot be dislocated and falsified in this way without giving rise to secret doubts, which are immediately repressed so as to avoid conflict with the prevail trend towards mass-mindedness. […] The policy of the State is exalted to a creed, the leader or party boss becomes a demigod beyond good and evil, and his votaries are honoured as heroes, martyrs, apostles, missionaries. There is only one truth and beside it no other. It is sacrosanct and above criticism. Anyone who thinks differently is a heretic, who, as we know from history, is threatened with all manner of unpleasant things. Only the party boss, who holds the political power in his hands, can interpret the State doctrine authentically, and he does so just as suits him.”

The Essential Jung [compilation], edited by Anthony Storr. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, ISBN 0-691-02455-3 Structure & Dynamics of the Psyche, volume 8 in The Collected Works, is a revised translation of one of Jung's most important longer works. There is an appendix of four shorter papers on personality type, published between 1913 and 1935. [17] Princeton University Press catalog of the Bollingen series, with links to listings of individual works public aspects of our selves that we are prepared to share only with trusted others. The Blind SelfI opened this book without any expectations, so I can’t say I was surprised by its contents; but I am indeed surprised that it is still so well-liked and widely read. The Undiscovered Self is a book mired in a Cold War mentality—fear of communism, totalitarianism, technology, world destruction—so I find it interesting how many people feel that it hasn’t lost any of its relevance. Well, perhaps they’re right; after all, we still have oppressive governments, dangerous mass-movements, and weapons capable of destroying the world. So what is Jung’s message, then? The Philemon Series is currently in production by the Philemon Foundation. The series will eventually include an additional 30 volumes of work containing previously unpublished manuscripts, seminars and correspondence. It is time we asked ourselves exactly why and for what purpose we are lumping together in mass organizations and what constitutes the nature of own individual human being. This is hardly possible except through a new process of self-nourishment. Without self-knowledge, there can be no growth, compassion, and integrity. I would like to add in this matter the following “He who knows himself and made known their poverty and inability towards them self (accepted them self in weakness) knew God's self-esteem and his ability and his riches, so its self-knowledge first, and then the knowledge of God after –or- He who knows himself has indicated that he knew God grace and riches first then his self.” Psychology and Alchemy (2nd ed. 1968 Collected Works Vol. 12 ISBN 0-691-01831-6). London: Routledge. a b "Collected Works of C.G. Jung, Volume 4: Freud & Psychoanalysis". Princeton University Press . Retrieved 2014-01-17.

Philosopher Walter Kaufmann has criticized the arrangement of the Collected Works as unsystematic, and R. F. C. Hull's translation as occasionally inaccurate. [38] See also [ edit ] Since the dawn of time man have always been on the hunt towards understanding and discovering himself. A topic that has occupied man’s minds for ages. In this compelling work, C.G Jung approaches the topic of individuality in such a unique way. Presenting the individual’s struggle for moral and spiritual integrity against the “mass psychology’ generated by political fanaticism, scientific materialism and technological triumphalism on a global scale.

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If the psychologist happens to be a doctor who wants not only to classify his patient scientifically but also to understand him as a human being, he is threatened with conflict of duties between the two diametrically opposed and mutually exclusive attitudes of knowledge, on the one hand, and understanding, on the other. This conflict cannot be solved by an either-or, but only by a kind of two-way thinking: doing one thing while not losing sight of the other.” Pg. 19 The book begins with Jung's doctoral dissertation " On the Psychology and Pathology of So-Called Occult Phenomena", a case study of an adolescent girl who claimed to be a psychic medium. It also includes papers on cryptomnesia, Freudian slips in reading, simulated insanity, and other subjects, and discusses some conditions of inferiority and altered states of consciousness which were previously thought to be occult phenomena. Included are case studies of sleepwalkers and patients who had hypomania. [8] And are not Jesus and Paul prototypes of those who, trusting their inner experience, have gone their own individual ways, disregarding public opinions?” Pg. 69 Abstracts: Vol 1: Psychiatric Studies". International Association for Analytic Psychology . Retrieved 2020-08-22.