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Long after his famous split with Freud, psychotherapist Carl Jung focused on the growing UFO phenomenon that had captured imaginations since World War II. A lifelong scholar of symbols and their manifestation in both individual and collective consciousness, Jung saw the flying saucer as a new kind of myth for modern times. Writing in 1959, at the peak of the Cold War, Jung refrained from making any judgment on whether these “visitations” were real or imaginary; instead, he approached them psychologically. Using both reported sightings and dreams his patients had about UFOs, he saw a symbol of unity and completeness in the pristine, metallic roundness of the flying saucer. This stood in contrast to the prevailing psychology of “separateness” across postwar society. Considering the emergence of never-before-seen technologies of mass destruction, such as the atomic bomb, Jung regarded the flying saucer as a collective projection—a vision of an incomprehensible, unified, and machinic...More
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Long after his famous split with Freud, psychotherapist Carl Jung focused on the growing UFO phenomenon that had captured imaginations since World War II. A lifelong scholar of symbols and their manifestation in both individual and collective consciousness, Jung saw the flying saucer as a new kind of myth for modern times. Writing in 1959, at the peak of the Cold War, Jung refrained from making any judgment on whether these “visitations” were real or imaginary; instead, he approached them psychologically. Using both reported sightings and dreams his patients had about UFOs, he saw a symbol of unity and completeness in the pristine, metallic roundness of the flying saucer. This stood in contrast to the prevailing psychology of “separateness” across postwar society. Considering the emergence of never-before-seen technologies of mass destruction, such as the atomic bomb, Jung regarded the flying saucer as a collective projection—a vision of an incomprehensible, unified, and machinic...More
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