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The present volume is a revision of the work in which he repudiated Freud and formulated his well-known system of analysis which is based essentially on the postulate that the unconscious part of the psyche uses the symbols of religious mythology.

Even those who are most skeptical about Jung’s theory of the nature and value of “the religious myth” will be impressed by one significant fact. In the first edition of this book (1912) the author found it necessary to warn his readers that civilized men were so protected from violence that they would find it difficult to believe in the potential brutality of the human psyche. This revision is addressed to a disillusioned and wiser audience. “We have had bitter experience of what happens when a whole nation finds the moral mask too stupid to keep up. The beast breaks loose, and a frenzy of demoralization sweeps over the civilized world.”

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The present volume is a revision of the work in which he repudiated Freud and formulated his well-known system of analysis which is based essentially on the postulate that the unconscious part of the psyche uses the symbols of religious mythology.

Even those who are most skeptical about Jung’s theory of the nature and value of “the religious myth” will be impressed by one significant fact. In the first edition of this book (1912) the author found it necessary to warn his readers that civilized men were so protected from violence that they would find it difficult to believe in the potential brutality of the human psyche. This revision is addressed to a disillusioned and wiser audience. “We have had bitter experience of what happens when a whole nation finds the moral mask too stupid to keep up. The beast breaks loose, and a frenzy of demoralization sweeps over the civilized world.”