What We Are Reading Today: Civilization in Transition

What We Are Reading Today: Civilization in Transition
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Updated 27 May 2024

What We Are Reading Today: Civilization in Transition

What We Are Reading Today: Civilization in Transition

Author: C. G. Jung

‘The “Civilization in Transition” features Jung’s writings on contemporary events, especially the relation between the individual and society.

In the earliest essay, “The Role of the Unconscious” (1918), Jung advanced the theory that World War I was a psychological crisis originating in the collective unconscious of individuals.