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

which expresses itself in mass-mindedness, in the atomization and conscious internationalization of the individual.

Conscience then becomes a Jewish, capitalist, or Socialist “invention.”

as in the psychological life of the individual.

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

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

But the “voice,” that inward orientation which makes known the utterances of the self, will never speak in a disintegrated personality, in a bankrupt consciousness, and in a fragmented psychic system.

mass, let alone to a relationship of the participants with one another.

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