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A Modern Myth of Things Seen in the Sky.
Translation of Ein moderner Mythus.
"From the collected works of C. G. Jung, volumes 10 and 18."
Includes bibliographical references.
"In the threatening situation of the world today, when people are beginning
to see that everything is at stake, the projection-creating fantasy soars
beyond the realm of earthly organizations and powers into the heavens, into
interstellar space, where the rulers of human fate, the gods, once had
their abode in the planets.... Even people who would never have thought
that a religious problem could be a serious matter that concerned them
personally are beginning to ask themselves fundamental questions. Under
these circumstances it would not be at all surprising if those sections of
the community who ask themselves nothing were visited by `visions,' by a
widespread myth seriously believed in by some and rejected as absurd by
others."--C. G. Jung, in "Flying Saucers"
Jung's primary concern in Flying Saucers is not with the reality or
unreality of UFOs but with their psychic aspect. Rather than speculate
about their possible nature and extraterrestrial origin as alleged
spacecraft, he asks what it may signify that these phenomena, whether real
or imagined, are seen in such numbers just at a time when humankind is
menaced as never before in history. The UFOs represent, in Jung's phrase,
"a modern myth."
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LC: 78004325 //r842 Class: TL789
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