Separation from his instinctual nature inevitably plunges civilized man into the conflict between conscious and unconscious, spirit and nature, knowledge and faith, a split that becomes pathological the moment his consciousness is no longer able to neglect or suppress his instinctual side.
 Carl Jung, The Undiscovered Self (1959). copy citation

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Author Carl Jung
Source The Undiscovered Self
Topic separation consciousness
Date 1959
Language English
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Note Translated by R. F. C. Hull
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