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Worldwide disorientation and dissociation

"Jung noted that civilized Germany had "disgorged its primitiveness," and that Russia was ruled by this same primitive impulse. "No wonder the Western world feels uneasy," wrote Jung, "for it does not know how much it plays into the hands of the uproarious underworld.... It has lost its moral and spiritual values to a very dangerous degree. Its moral and spiritual tradition has collapsed, and has left a worldwide disorientation and dissociation."


Carl Jung

A Short Philosophy of History
by J. R. Nyquist
 
The founder of analytic psychology, Carl Jung, proposed the existence of something he called the "collective unconscious."  He said it was the most misunderstood of his "empirical concepts." Its reality could be inferred from the presence of "archetypes," most readily discoverable in dreams, which are involuntary and spontaneous. Here is something about which the conscious mind knows nothing. And yet, the unconscious mind -- from the moment of birth -- is filled with built-in "mental contents." Continued...
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