The modern human in the search for the soul

Author's name: Carl Gustav Jung Publisher: Al Hiwar for Publishing and Distribution Year of publication: 2016 Literary classification: Psychology Brief about the book: Psychology teaches us that, in a way, there is nothing old in the soul, and that nothing can actually disappear completely, in reality. And whoever protects himself against what is new and strange and retreats to the past falls into the same neurotic state, like someone who connects himself to the new and escapes from the past. The only difference between them is that one has separated himself from the past, and the other from the future. They revive a narrow state of consciousness. The alternative is to break this state through the latent tension in the play of opposites, in order to build a broader and more refined state of consciousness. Fortunately, we are humans and not suns that rise and set, otherwise that would have a bad effect on our cultural values. But something within us resembles the sun, so talking about morning and spring, and about evening and autumn, is not just emotional specialized vocabulary. By this, we are not only expressing a psychological truth, but also physiological facts. This is because the eclipse at the horizon even changes physical traits, especially among southern peoples, as one can observe that older women become hoarser and deeper-voiced, develop initial beards, their facial features harden, and other masculine traits appear on them. On the other hand, the male body structure becomes softened with feminine features such as obesity and smooth facial features. Quotes from the book "The Modern Human in Search of the Spirit" by Carl Gustav Jung: It is true that the modern human is the final result of an ancient evolution, but tomorrow it will be surpassed, and it is true that he is the final product of what preceded him in evolution, but at the same time he is worse than the disappointment of humanity. Do we deceive ourselves into thinking that we own our souls and control them? Is what science calls "the soul" nothing but a question mark confined within the skull arbitrarily, but it is an open door to the world of man from another world, allowing from time to time strange latent forces that cannot be contained to influence the human being, and to shift him as if they carry him on the wings of the night away from the level of common humanity and transfer him to a more preoccupied level with personal worries? The ego is the place of fears, as Freud says in his book "Ego and Id," but it remains so as long as it does not return to the "Father" and "Mother." Freud is shattered by Nietzsche's question: Can a person enter his mother's womb again and be born a second time? Complexes do not necessarily indicate a deficiency; rather, complexes are focal or networked sites in psychological life that we may not want to relinquish. In fact, there is no need to lack psychological complexes, because mental activity might enter a deadly stillness.