The Origins And History Of Consciousness (International Library of Psychology)
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The Origins And History Of Consciousness (International Library of Psychology)
The global revolution which has seized upon modern man and in whose storm center we find ourselves today has, with its transvaluation of all values, led to a loss of orientation in the part and in the whole, and daily we have new and painful experience of its repercussions in the political life of the collective, as well
Erich Neumann • The Origins And History Of Consciousness (International Library of Psychology)
which expresses itself in mass-mindedness, in the atomization and conscious internationalization of the individual.
Erich Neumann • The Origins And History Of Consciousness (International Library of Psychology)
regardless of conflicting national ideologies, every modern consciousness is confronted with that of other nations and races and with other
Erich Neumann • The Origins And History Of Consciousness (International Library of Psychology)
as in the psychological life of the individual.
Erich Neumann • The Origins And History Of Consciousness (International Library of Psychology)
The superiority of this group totality over the individual part invests the former with all the marks of an archetype. It is possessed of superior power, has a spiritual character and displays the qualities of leadership, is numinous, and is always the “wholly other,” as is apparent in all institutional groups in which the founder of the group play
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Conscience then becomes a Jewish, capitalist, or Socialist “invention.”
Erich Neumann • The Origins And History Of Consciousness (International Library of Psychology)
mass, let alone to a relationship of the participants with one another.
Erich Neumann • The Origins And History Of Consciousness (International Library of Psychology)
This unconscious mass component is opposed to consciousness and the world of culture. It resists conscious development, is irrational and emotional, anti-individual and destructive. It corresponds mythologically to the negative aspect of the Great Mother—it is her murderous accomplice, the adversary and man-slaying boar. This negative, unconscious
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largely governed by this pattern. The stability of the ego, i.e., its ability to stand firm against the disintegrative tendencies of the unconscious and the world, is developed very early, as is also the trend toward extension of consciousness, which is likewise an important prerequisite for self-formation.