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“If we feel our way into the human secrets of the sick person, the madness also reveals its system, and we recognize in the mental illness merely an exceptional reaction to emotional problems which are not strange to us.”23
But how do we tell the difference between what looks sinister, and what is sinister?
Jung wrote that it was a difficult task to differentiate the personal and collective psyche. One of the factors one came up against was the persona—one’s “mask” or “role.” This represented the segment of the collective psyche that one mistakenly regarded as individual. When one analyzed this, the personality dissolved into the collective psyche,
... See moreLiber Novus (The Red Book) by C. G. Jung
“mask”, “role” - the segment of the collective psyche that one mistakenly regarded as individual