Just as man, as a social being, cannot in the long run exist without a tie to the community, so the individual will never find the real justification for his existence, and his own spiritual and moral autonomy, anywhere except in an extramundane principle capable of relativizing the overpowering influence of external factors. The individual who is not anchored in God can offer no resistance on his own resources to the physical and moral blandishments of the world. For this he needs the evidence of inner, transcendent experience which alone can protect him from the otherwise inevitable submersion in the mass.”

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.”The problem as it might become apparent by the previous lessons is the following: man is not what he knows about himself nor what others tell him about himself. He is more. But exploring the unconscious can’t happen from the conscious. Extracted from Volumes 10, 11, 13, and 18. Includes Commentary on The Secret of the Golden Flower, Psychological Commentary on The Tibetan Book of the Dead and The Tibetan Book of the Great Liberation, Foreword to Suzuki's Introduction... 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.” Carl Jung

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. The more the unconscious – referred to as the shadow – is neglected, the more we start to lose sight of the shadow itself.

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] Collected Works of C.G. Jung, Volume 10: Civilization in Transition". Princeton University Press . Retrieved 2014-01-20.

Collected Works of C.G. Jung, Volume 15: Spirit in Man, Art, and Literature". Princeton University Press . Retrieved 2014-01-20. Consciousness and the Unconscious: Lectures Delivered at ETH Zurich, Volume 2: 1934. Philemon Series & Princeton University Press. In either case, the behavior is powered by our inner desire to gain attention, satisfy our yearnings, and promote our views.The word association studies described in this book were an important contribution to diagnostic psychology and psychiatry, and show the influence on Jung of Eugen Bleuler and Sigmund Freud. 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: