Key insights from
The Undiscovered Self
By Carl Jung
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8 minute read
Published Feb 7, 2006
What you'll learn
Though the Second World War had recently ended, Jung still saw threats to the individual continuing to grow: from the proliferation of nuclear weapons to the emergence of a mind-numbing mass society. According to Jung, humanity’s predicament will not improve unless individuals do the brave work of examining their inner lives in order to discover who they are apart from mass society.
Key insights
- • What you'll learn
- 1 Abstract theories and universal principles can obscure the individual instead of showing who he is.
- 2 The best way to avoid becoming a dispensable social unit unwittingly in the hands of the State is to discover who you are apart from mass society.
- 3 The wedge between faith and knowledge is deepening the divide, and making individuals and society neurotic.
- 4 We are presumptuous to believe we can get a hold of “God” and analyze him, because true knowledge of God comes when he seizes us.
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