Looked at rationally and from outside, that is exactly what he is, and from this point of view it seems positively absurd to go on talking about the value or meaning of the individual.

Published in 1957, The Undiscovered Self is a series of essays written by Jung in which he expresses his discontent and concern with mass-movements, dictatorships, and the sudden insignificance of the individual. Therefore, the more you isolate yourself from what you know, the better you’ll understand what you don’t know about yourself and others. One of the world's greatest psychiatrists reveals how to embrace our own humanity and resist the pressures of an ever-changing world.It also contains his profoundly interesting parallel between the transference phenomena and alchemical processes.

By increasing your self-awareness, you can improve aspects of yourself such as your ability to identify and manage emotions, harness your strengths, increase flexibility and build self-confidence. Originally planned as a brief final volume in the Collected Works, The Symbolic Life has become the largest volume in the series, and one of unusual interest. What’s inside us remains hidden from us because we analyze ourselves based only on what is known, what is available to us. The individual, however, as an irrational datum, is the true and authentic carrier of reality, the concrete man as opposed to the unreal ideal or “normal” man to whom the scientific statements refer. His influence on popular psychology, the "psychologization of religion", spirituality and the New Age movement has been immense.The problem as it might become apparent by the previous lessons is the following: man is not what he knows about himself nor what others tell him about himself. He expresses his concern for the individual and how the lack of self-knowledge, and disregard for the unconscious will lead men into the wrong path. This may include aspects of your personality, attitudes, behaviours, emotions, skills, and life views. Public organizations are more interested in amassing more and more people, not caring about the individuals forming the group. This may be because you do not have the ability to share, or because you are trying to protect yourself.

The believer, on the other hand, while admitting that the State has a moral and factual claim on him, confesses to the belief that not only man but the State that rules him is subject to the overlordship of “God,” and that, in case of doubt, the supreme decision will be made by God and not by the State. The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), a popular psychometric instrument, has been developed from Jung's theory of psychological types. But since what we know about the world is not all that is available as knowledge, we usually end up not addressing the situation accordingly. The series includes 20 volumes, one of them published in two parts; detailed chapter-by-chapter abstracts of each volume are available online. Offering clear and crisp insights into some of his major theories, such as the duality of human nature, the unconscious, human instinct and spirituality, Jung warns against the threats of totalitarianism and political and social propaganda to the free-thinking individual.The Times Literary Supplement said that "This volume is an excellent introduction into Jungian theories and demonstrates their fundamental differences from psychoanalysis. Mysterium Coniunctionis: An Inquiry into the Separation and Synthesis of Psychic Opposites in Alchemy (1st ed. And while these things do help, they cannot fully liberate us if we don’t actually take the time to talk to ourselves – understand what we actually want. The problem, as described in the book, is that making conclusions about people is hard without at least partly relying on knowledge about mankind in general. Jung has a less pessimistic view of our unconscious desires; he accepts that they can be violent, but he also sees them as a great source of strength and happiness.