The Undiscovered Self: A Short Review

Religion and state, be it monotheistic or polytheistic and democratic or communist, by and large have made the individual, bereft of uniqueness, an unimportant unit among the crowd. The repercussions are loss of touch with his/her inner-self and the unfolding of history as we think we do but do not know it. This is an apologetic work prompting an individual to look inside him as opposed to outside in order to make the world, which is always one moment closer to its self-destruction, a better place.
Carl Jung asks it is time, back in the 50s, we stopped pointing our fingers at the Devil for the crimes of humanity and embrace our inherent duality: the self-knowledge of capable good and evil within. This is a small book that asks questions and posits provocative reflections as big as life itself. Jung at times is found to beat around the bush, nonetheless never fails to get to the thoughts that are of in vision existentialist and universal welfare.