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Jung on the Death and Rebirth of a Civilization

Posted by Bonnie Bright on June 4, 2017 at 4:03pm in Depth Psychology General

"It is said that always when one principle reaches the height of its power, the counter-principle is stirring within it like a germ. This is another, particularly graphic formulation of the psychological law of compensation by an inner opposite.

Whenever a civilization reaches its highest point, sooner or later a period of decay sets in. But the apparently meaningless and hopeless collapse into a disorder without aim or purpose, which fills the onlooker with disgust and despair, nevertheless contains within its darkness the germ of a new light."

- C.G. Jung

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