![]() ![]() It may even be assumed that just as the unconscious affects us, so the increase in our consciousness affects the unconscious. As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being. Neither should he persist in his unconsciousness, nor remain identical with the unconscious elements of his being, thus evading his destiny, which is to create more and more consciousness. ![]() But man's task is the exact opposite: to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious. Like them, he has fallen a victim to unconsciousness. Carl Gustav Jung was born on July 26th, 1875, in the small town of Kesswil, Switzerland, into an interesting and notable family. ![]() He writes The Psychology of Dementia Praecox. Jung initiates letter correspondance with Sigmund Freud and visits him next year in Vienna. Lectures on psychiatry at the University of Zurich. The phenomenon of dictators and all the misery they have wrought springs from the fact that man has been robbed of transcendence by the shortsightedness of the super-intellectuals. The get five children in the course of time. Our age has shifted all emphasis to the here and now, and thus brought about a daemonization of man and his world. ![]()
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