April 22, 2013.

As I'm done with most of the exams, I also had enough time to finish reading the Undiscovered Self by Carl Jung.

Through out the book, Jung's idea was focused on the importance of individuals to resist the collective forces of society (i.e. socialist dictatorship, state slavery, religion) and the need of awareness and understanding of one's unconscious mind and the true inner nature.

"Just a man, as a social being, cannot in the long run exist without a tie to the community, so the individual will never find the real justification for his existence, and his own spiritual and autonomy, anywhere except in an extramundane principle capable of relativizing the overpowering influence of external factors. The individual who is not anchored in God can offer no resistance on his own resources to the physical and moral blandishments of the world. For this he needs the evidence of inner, transcendent experience which alone can protect him from the otherwise inevitable submersion in the mass."

"Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his individuality as the mass itself."