Undiscovered Self

Nothing has a more divisive and alienating effect upon society than this moral complacency and lack of responsibility, and nothing promotes understanding and rapprochement more than the mutual withdrawal of projections.

This necessary corrective requires self-criticism, for one cannot just tell the other person to withdraw them. He does not recognize
them for what they are, any more than one does oneself.

We can recognize our prejudices and illusions only when, from a broader psychological knowledge of ourselves and others, we are prepared to doubt the absolute rightness of our assumptions and compare them carefully and conscientiously with the objective facts.

Funnily enough, “self-criticism” is an idea much in vogue in Marxist countries, but there it is subordinated to ideological considerations and must serve the State, and not truth and justice in men’s dealings with one another.

The mass State has no intention of Promoting Mutual Understanding and the relationship of man to man; it strives, rather, for atomization, for the psychic isolation of the individual.

The more unrelated individuals are, the more consolidated the State becomes, and vice versa. ~Carl Jung, Undiscovered Self, Page 72