"The mass State has no intention of..." - Quote by Carl Jung
The mass State has no intention of promoting mutual understanding and the relationship of man to man; it strives, rather, for atomization, for the psychic isolation of the individual. The more unrelated individuals are, the more consolidated the State becomes, and vice versa.
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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. --"The Content of the Psychoses”
“I think there will be a reaction - a reaction will set in against this communal dissociation. You know, man doesn't stand forever, his nullification. Once, there will be a reaction, and I see it setting in, you know, when I think of my patients, they all seek their own existence and to assure their existence against that complete atomization into nothingness or into meaninglessness. Man cannot stand a meaningless life.”
“Real work is completed in silence and strikes a chord in the minds of only a very few.”
More on Society
“There is no way to be truly great in this world. We are all impaled on the crook of conditioning.”
“It is dainty to be sick if you have leisure and convenience for it.”
“In society you will not find health, but in nature. Unless our feet at least stood in the midst of nature, all our faces would bepale and livid. Society is always diseased, and the best is the most so.”
More on State
“Shakespeare cared little for the State, the source of all our judgments, apart from its shows and splendours, its turmoils and battles, its flamings out of the uncivilized heart.”
“The chief foundations of all states, new as well as old or composite, are good laws and good arms.”
“For, in order to turn the individual into a function of the State, his dependence on anything beside the State must be taken from him.”