We are going to explore how positive social change in the direction of a freer world can be effectuated by individuals striving for what yung called the achievement of personality. When we make progress toward this ideal, we cease being an ordinary member of the great mass of conformists and become, in the words of yung, extraordinary. A vocation is the crucial factor that destines a man to emancipate himself from its well worn paths. To be in possession of a vocation means to turn within and listen to the call of conscience in order to discover our purpose or life's mission.
“Anxiously we look round for collective measures, thereby reinforcing the very mass-mindedness we want to fight against. There’s only one remedy for the leveling effect of all collective measures, and this is to emphasize and increase the value of the individual.” Carl Jung, Civilization in Transition We live in an age where two visions […]
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Is Humanity Doomed? – Carl Jung on Healing a Sick Society first appeared on
Academy of Ideas.