Carl Jung on "The State or Goverment"

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"Jung stressed the importance of individual rights in a persons relation to the state and society. He saw that the state was treated as "a quasi-animate personality from whom everything is expected" but that this personality was "only camouflage for those individuals who know how to manipulate it", and referred to the state as a form of slavery. He also thought that the state "swallowed up [people's] religious forces", and therefore that the state had "taken the place of God"—making it comparable to a religion in which "state slavery is a form of worship." Jung observed that governments "stage acts of state" comparable to religious displays: "Brass bands, flags, banners, parades and monster demonstrations are no different in principle from ecclesiastical processions, cannonades and fire to scare off demons." From Jung's perspective, this replacement of God with the state in a mass society led to the dislocation of the religious drive and resulted in the same fanaticism of the church-states of the dark ages—wherein the more the state is 'worshiped', the more freedom and morality are suppressed; this ultimately leaves the individual psychically undeveloped with extreme feelings of marginalization."

Who was Carl Jung?-Jung has had an enduring influence on psychology as well as wider society. He founded a new school of psychotherapy, called analytical psychology or Jungian psychology. He gave us:

* The concept of introversion and extraversion.
* The concept of the complex.
* The concept of Collective Unconscious, which is shared by all people. It includes the archetypes.
* Synchronicity as an alternative to the Causality Principle, an idea which has even influenced modern physicists.
* The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) and Socionics were both inspired by Jung's psychological types theory.


Comment by Thunder: I have always said that the Government is nothing more then a organized religion. The above reference to "Peoples religious forces" in my view and that of Jung can be equated with spirituality or personal spiritual beliefs.