“[Contemporary man] is blind to the fact that, with all his rationality and efficiency, he is possessed by ‘powers’ that are beyond his control. His gods and demons have not disappeared at all; they have merely got new names. They keep him on the run with restlessness, vague apprehensions, psychological complications, an insatiable need for pills, alcohol, tobacco, food – and, above all, a large array of neuroses. (Jung, 1964:82).”
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3 responses to “A Quick One from Carl Jung”
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awesome quotation!
Interesting because his Mom was a bit of a an eccentric who spent much of the time in her own separate bedroom, enthralled by the spirits that she said visited her at night.
I am so totally academically out of it these days. Is Jung hot or not this decade?