The Undiscovered Self:

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Atom and Archetype: The Pauli/Jung Letters, 1932-1958, with Wolfgang Pauli, edited by C. A. Meier. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. ISBN 0-691-01207-5. Studies in Word Association. London: Routledge & K. Paul. (contained in Experimental Researches, CW 2) it was the explosion of all those psychic contents which could find no room, no breathing space, in the constricting atmosphere of Freudian psychology.... It was an attempt, only partially successful, to create a wider setting for medical psychology and to bring the whole of the psychic phenomena within its purview. [11]

Abstracts: Vol 10: Civilization in Transition". International Association for Analytic Psychology . Retrieved 2020-08-22. On Theology and Psychology: The Correspondence of C. G. Jung and Adolf Keller, Philemon Series & Princeton University Press. Collected Works of C.G. Jung, Volume 5: Symbols of Transformation". Princeton University Press . Retrieved 2014-01-18. These two essays, written late in Jung's life, reflect his responses to the shattering experience of World War II and the dawn of mass society. Among his most influential works, "The Undiscovered Self" is a plea for his generation--and... The statistical method shows the facts in the light of the ideal average but does not give us a picture of their empirical reality. While reflecting an indisputable aspect of reality, it can falsify the actual truth in a most misleading way. This is particularly true of theories which are based on statistics. The distinctive thing about real facts, however, is their individuality. Not to put too fine a point on it, once could say that the real picture consists of nothing but exceptions to the rule, and that, in consequence, absolute reality has predominantly the character of irregularity.”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.” While trying to appear as more concerned about others – but actually caring more about himself and his individual needs – a person creates a split personality. That real joy happens only when we take steps towards revealing the hidden layers of our inner desires, understand them, and befriend our unconscious. But all of this, shouldn’t happen at the expense of others. Meaning that we shouldn’t ​use others for our own ends gains. a b "Collected Works of C.G. Jung, Volume 4: Freud & Psychoanalysis". Princeton University Press . Retrieved 2014-01-17.

Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious is part 1 of volume 9 in The Collected Works, and includes numerous full-color illustrations. [19] [20] In this volume, Jung's theory is first established through three essays, followed by essays on specific archetypes, and finally a section relating them to the process of individuation. Flying Saucers: A Modern Myth of Things Seen in the Sky. (From Vols. 10 and 18, Collected Works) C Psychology and Alchemy (2nd ed. 1968 Collected Works Vol. 12 ISBN 0-691-01831-6). London: Routledge. But that’s not what Carl Jung believed. With his work, he wants to motivate more people to explore their inner selves. To bring forward their dark motives. Because only by revealing the shadow we can spot our imperfections and “touch” our real selves. Abstracts of the Collected Works of C.G. Jung; Volume 5: Symbols of Transformation". International Association for Analytic Psychology . Retrieved 2019-10-29.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. The problem, as described in the book, is that making conclusions about people is hard without at least partly relying on knowledge about mankind in general. 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] These two essays, written late in Jung’s life, reflect his responses to the shattering experience of World War II and the dawn of mass society. Among his most influential works, “The Undiscovered Self” is a plea for his generation—and those to come—to continue the individual work of self-discovery and not abandon needed psychological reflection for the easy ephemera of mass culture. Only individual awareness of both the conscious and unconscious aspects of the human psyche, Jung tells us, will allow the great work of human culture to continue and thrive.

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. Nowhere else than in this study of the interplay of East and West is the point so forcefully made that man's cultural past somehow molds his feelings and thinking as well as his highly contrasting attitudes toward reality. Editions [ edit ]This conflict can only be solved by a two-way thinking model: Doing one thing while at the same time not losing sight of the other possibilities (i.e., taking into consideration the data but also being aware that data is fragile and can’t showcase the uniqueness of the person, situation, etc.). Experimental Researches, volume 2 in The Collected Works, edited by Gerhard Adler, includes Jung's word association studies in normal and abnormal psychology; two 1909 Clark University lectures on the association method; and three articles on psychophysical researches from American and English journals in 1907 and 1908. [9] [10]

The Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst warn us that we’ll never find inner satisfaction if we rely on outside forces for help. The State and the religious movements we are forced to obey don’t care about the individual. And thus, the “individual” is replaced by the “mass.” The Solar Myths and Opicinus de Canistris: Notes of the Seminar given at Eranos in 1943. Daimon Verlag. ISBN 9783856309763 Plainly, you are responsible to take care of your inner desires and stop constantly trying to satisfy the needs of the outsiders.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 ] C.G. Jung's Collected Works: Abstracts". International Association for Analytical Psychology . Retrieved 2020-08-22. Spirit in Man, Art, and Literature (sometimes styled as The Spirit of...) is volume 15 in The Collected Works, and contains nine essays, written between 1922 and 1941, on Paracelsus, Freud, Picasso, sinologist Richard Wilhelm, James Joyce's Ulysses, artistic creativity generally, and the source of artistic creativity in archetypal structures. [28] [29] Editions [ edit ] The Jung-Kirsch Letters: The Correspondence of C.G. Jung and James Kirsch, with James Kirsch, edited by Ann Conrad Lammers. Routledge. ISBN 9780415419215. It is, unfortunately, only too clear that if the individual is not truly regenerated in spirit, society cannot be either, for society is the sum total of individuals in need of redemption. I can therefore see it only as a delusion when the Churches try – as they apparently do – to rope the individual into some social organization and reduce him to a condition of diminished responsibility, instead of raising him out of the torpid, mindless mass and making clear to him that he is the one important factor and that the salvation of the world consists in the salvation of the individual soul.”