I am reading Jung and I had to make another post which quotes him. I believe this quote points to very important aspect of our minds which, in my opinion, may be one of the key reasons why humans are not able to live in a less destructive way on this earth.
"If the conscious mind becomes severed form instincts and loses its roots, while instincts, unable to express themselves, fall back into the unconscious and reinforce its energy, causing this in turn to overflow into the existing contents of the unconsciousness. It is then that the rootless condition of consciousness becomes a real danger. This secret vis-a-tergo results in an hybris of conscious mind which manifests in the form of exaggerated self-esteem or inferiority complex. At all levels a loss of balance ensues, and this is the most fruitful soil for psychic injury." (from the Collected Works of Jung)
In my understanding this could be what have happened to the humanity by large. We have lost our connection to our basic instincts, thus losing the connection with nature, and now we live too one-sidedly according to our conscious ideas of the world, which seems to result in very destructive behavior and lifestyles.
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