Terror – Anthology – Quotations
Wherever justice is uncertain and police spying and terror are at work, human beings fall into isolation, which, of course, is the aim and purpose of the dictator State, since it is based on the greatest possible accumulation of depotentiated social units. ~Carl Jung; “The Undiscovered Self”, 1957.
Instead of being at the mercy of wild beasts, earthquakes, landslides, and inundations, modern man is battered by the elemental forces of his own psyche. This is the World Power that vastly exceeds all other powers on earth. The Age of Enlightenment, which stripped nature and human institutions of gods, overlooked the God of Terror who dwells in the human soul. ~Carl Jung; The Development of Personality.
To my terror I was forced into a pulpit, which gave me such a shock that I have never spoken in a church again. I hadn’t realized how much a sacred and hallowed precinct meant to me. ~Carl Jung, Letters Vol. II, Pages 128-129.
No charity in all the world can take away the divine terror. It could not even do away with the H-Bomb! ~Carl Jung, Letters Vol. II, Pages 362-363.
One can only say that somehow one has to reach the rim of the world or get to the end of one’s tether in order to partake of the terror or grace of such an experience at all. ~Carl Jung, Letters Vol. II, Pages 423-424
This is the average man, and he is right in his anxiousness, because it is a matter of the fathers and mothers of all the terrors he is bringing to this world in the form of Communism and H-bombs, and last but not least by his fertility and the inevitable overpopulation. ~Carl Jung, Letters Vol. II, Pages 496-497
The conscious extravert values his connection with the outer object and fears his own inner self. The introvert has no fear of himself, but great fear of the object, which he comes to endow with extraordinary terrors. ~Carl Jung, 1925 Seminar, Page 65
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On the psychology of terr0rism
Terror1sm is a manifestation of the psyche.
It is time we recognized the psyche as an autonomous factor in world affairs.
The psychological root of terrori1m is a fanatical resentment – a quasi-psychotic hatred originating in the depths of the archetypal psyche and therefore carried by religious (archetypal) energies.
A classic literary example is Melville’s Moby Dick.
Captain Ahab, with his fanatical hatred of the White Whale, is a paradigm of the modern terrori1t.
Articulate terr0rists generally express themselves in religious (archetypal) terminology.
The enemy is seen as the Principle of Objective Evil (Devil) and the terr-rist perceives himself as the “heroic” agent of divine or Objective Justice (God).
This is an archetypal inflation of demonic proportions which temporarily grants the individual almost superhuman energy and effectiveness.
To deal with terro0ism effectively we must understand it.
We need a new category to understand this new phenomenon.
These individuals are not criminals and are not madmen although they have some qualities of both.
Let’s call them zealots.
Zealots are possessed by transpersonal, archetypal dynamisms deriving from the collective unconscious.
Their goal is a collective, not a personal one.
The criminal seeks his own personal gain; not so the zealot.
In the name of a transpersonal, collective value – a religion, an ethnic or national identity, a “patriotic” vision, etc. – they sacrifice their personal life in the service of their “god.”
