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Saturday, February 20, 2016

Carl Jung On War

  A long essay but highly recommended, it will turn you around a little.

ILP: excerpt from Jung's 'Psychological-Analysis of Nietzsche's Zarathustra'. Seminar given by Jung in Zurich 1938.
We can never become anything else because we are caught in that contradiction, on the one side we want to do good and on the other we are doing the worst. How can man develop? He is forever caught in that dilemma. So you had better acknowledge the evil, what you call it doesn't matter. If there were priests who said that the god of war must be propitiated that would be a way of protecting yourself. But of course there are no such things, so we must admit that we prepare the war, that we are just thirsty for blood, everybody.

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