C.G. Jung: “[Hitler] was an utterly incapable, unadapted, irresponsible, psychopathic personality, full of empty, infantile fantasies… He represented the shadow…”
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C.G. Jung: “[Hitler] was an utterly incapable, unadapted, irresponsible, psychopathic personality, full of empty, infantile fantasies… He represented the shadow…”

      C.G. Jung, on Hitler and the Shadow From Civilization in Transition Collected Works Volume 10 Paragraphs 455-456 The individual’s feeling of weakness, indeed of non-existence, was thus compensated by the eruption of hitherto unknown desires for power. It was the revolt of the powerless, the insatiable greed of the “have-nots.” By such…

C.G. Jung: “In Hitler, every German should have seen his own shadow, his own worst danger.”
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C.G. Jung: “In Hitler, every German should have seen his own shadow, his own worst danger.”

    From Civilization in Transition Collected Works Volume 10 Paragraphs 455-456 The individual’s feeling of weakness, indeed of non-existence, was thus compensated by the eruption of hitherto unknown desires for power. It was the revolt of the powerless, the insatiable greed of the “have-nots.” By such devious means the unconscious compels man to become…

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Carl Jung: “Projections change the world into the replica of one’s own unknown face…”

Carl Jung, on the Effect of Projection   The effect of projection is to isolate the subject from his environment, since instead of a real relation to it there is now only an illusory one. Projections change the world into the replica of one’s own unknown face. In the last analysis, therefore, they lead to an…

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Carl Jung: “All the contents of our unconscious are constantly being projected into our surroundings….”

Carl Jung talks about projection   Just as we tend to assume that the world is as we see it, we naïvely suppose that people are as we imagine them to be. . . . All the contents of our unconscious are constantly being projected into our surroundings, and it is only by recognizing certain…

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Question: “How do I apply Jungian concepts to the Mideast Conflict?”

[These were the responses to “”How do I apply Jungian concepts to the Mideast Conflict?” on Facebook on July 20, 2014:] VR: Apply love, not concepts. JM: I believe the practice of compassion is helpful. Breathing in the pain and and suffering, breathing out healing golden light JH: The projection of the shadow on to…

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Question: “How does a person integrate a personal complex into their life instead of projecting it onto others?”

  (On the Jung-Hearted Facebook site, these were the response to the question of July 14: “How does a person integrate a personal complex into their life instead of projecting it onto others?): DO: Art. Create art. RP: Choose to see it as a ‘lesson’ in ‘self-discovery’… RN: Any exaggerated feelings I have for another,…