Reason and the unconscious


As a matter of fact, day after day we live far beyond the bounds of our consciousness; without our knowledge, the life of the unconscious is also going on within us. The more the critical reason dominates, the more impoverished life becomes; but the more of the unconscious, and the more of myth we are capable of making conscious, the more of life we integrate. Overvalued reason has this in common with political absolutism: under its dominion the individual is pauperized.

C. G. Jung, “Memories, Dreams, Reflections”, Vintage Books Edition, April 1989 (Random House), p. 302

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