lunedì 17 febbraio 2020

Jung and fascism

I love, like everybody, carl Gustav Jung. He is the prototype of the wise man, and the reading of his numerous text is always refreshing. Nonetheless he also suffers from the limitations of the "spiritual" approach. He says for instance that the rise of the totalitarisms in the XXth century is a problem of the soul. Fascism (when Jung writes of totalitarism means also the SOviet Unon but his analysis is more suited to fascism) is obviously a problem of the soul, it literally the incapability to love, but the cure to this illness cannot be neither psychonalaysis nor phylosophy bor religion, the only cure is politics. Man must find the solution to his problems in himself, but this self is fundamentally a social construction. Archetypes are only stones in the building of personality, the design of this construction is largelly social.

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