Source: [the undiscovered self. Jung](evernote:///view/463671/s5/e4f5eb18-2601-4b32-bf64-b7ef060e514e/c24bc1f0-1ab8-482a-b3ed-5d0ab50ef081/) --- Reading "The Undiscovered Self" - Carl Jung **#BookNote** **#CarlJung #The Undiscovered Self** ## Chapter 1. The plight of the individual in modern society - For every manifest case of insanity there are, in my estimation, at least ten latent cases who seldom get to the point of breaking out openly but whose views and behavior, for all there appearance of normality, are influenced by unconsciously morbid and perverse factors. - I only know what's conscious for me, - Ego knows only its own contents, not the unconscious and its contents. - "Self knowledge" is therefore a very limited knowledge, most of it dependent on social factors, of what goes on in the human psyche. - Unconscious can be infected. - "in this broad belt of unconsciousness, which is immune to conscious criticism and control, we stand defenceless, open to all kinds of influences and psychic infections." - "If i want to understand an individual human being, I must lay aside all scientific knowledge of the average man and discard all theories in order to adopt a completely new and unprejudiced attitude. I can only approach the task of understanding with a free and open mind, whereas knowledge of man, or insight into human character, presupposes all sorts of knowledge about mankind in general." - "In view of the fact that in principle, the positive advantages of knowledge work specifically to the disadvantage of understanding, the judgement resulting therefrom is likely to be something of a paradox." - "The bigger the crowd the more negligible the individual becomes." Scientific knowledge, or theories, or education presents knowledge, are based on Statistics. But statistical means do not exists in reality. For example if we weight all the pebbles in the river, the mean may be 145grams. But actual pebble may be more or less. Cannot say that Pebbles must be 145grams only. Same as human, and anything. To understand human, we must move away from this "scientific knowledge" of average human, but to understand that individual humans are unique. They can be more or less. It is this unique individuality that is lost in statistics. Applying a general treatment to an individual will draw out resistance. Thus treatment need to be personalised. Physics acknowledge that the observed is affected by the observer. Yet humanities do not acknowledge that the human psyche, unconsciousness affect what is being studied, how it is studied.. [Thomas Young's double slit experiment 2.0 - YouTube](evernote:///view/463671/s5/4bef1b1e-9e0f-3639-29cd-f20c8623b066/c24bc1f0-1ab8-482a-b3ed-5d0ab50ef081/) [How observer effect reality simply by observing - YouTube](evernote:///view/463671/s5/83e22814-9c5e-ba35-2cb1-ae6b05a7f71b/c24bc1f0-1ab8-482a-b3ed-5d0ab50ef081/)  One must be critical, and think for ourselves. Don't be reduced into a unit in statistics,  and a zombie. Questions and ask why we are doing what we do. ## Chapter 2. Religion as the Counterbalance to Mass-mindedness - In order to turn the individual into a function of the State, his dependence on anything beside the State must be taken from him... religion means dependence on and submission to the irrational facts of experience. These do not refer directly to social and physical conditions; they concern far more the individual's psychic attitude. - **Religion gives a solid ground for us to stand on, to retreat, to observe the life outside.** - "...everyone is exposed who lives only in the outer world and has no other ground under his feed except the pavement" p14 - The world/state constantly want to take over the church, the church is really like salt, to push back state/world, mass thinking. - Any force will trigger a counterforce which harden the positions. - The world is the hero-system. - State replaces God. - **It's not just about calling it a community "by name" but really, connection, personal encounters that makes the difference.** - "The value of a community depends on the spiritual and moral stature of the individuals composing it.... changes can come only from the personal encounter between man and man.. not from communistic or Christian baptisms en masse, which do not touch the inner man" ## Chapter 3. The position of the West on the question of religion. Too hard to understand ## Chapter 4. **THE INDIVIDUAL’S UNDERSTANDING OF HIMSELF** Without consciousness there would, practically speaking, be no world, for the world exists as such only in so far as it is consciously reflected and consciously expressed by a psyche. _Consciousness is a precondition of being_.