[b]C. G. Jung
They do not realize that a myth is dead if it no longer lives and grows. Our myth has become mute, and gives no answers.[/b]
Like my myths here, right?
Ideas are not just counters used by the calculating mind; they are also golden vessels full of living feeling. “Freedom” is not a mere abstraction, it is also an emotion.
And who really knows where one ends and the other begins.
It is not that present-day man is capable of greater evil than the man of antiquity or the primitive. He merely has incomparably more effective means with which to realize his propensity to evil.
Chief among them being this: insisting that [instead] it is for the greater good.
To be quite accurate, human nature is simply what it is; it has its dark and its light sides. The sum of all colours is grey — light on a dark background or dark on light.
Don’t expect many to agree.
And just as the typical neurotic is unconscious of his shadow side, so the normal individual, like the neurotic, sees his shadow in his neighbour or in the man beyond the great divide.
Me and my shadow walk into a bar…
In contrast to the subjectivism of the conscious mind the unconscious is objective, manifesting itself mainly in the form of contrary feelings, fantasies, emotions, impulses and dreams, none of which one makes oneself but which come upon one objectively.
And not just in a wholly determined universe.