Every civilized human being, whatever his conscious development, is…

Every civilized human being, whatever his conscious development, is still an archaic man at the deeper levels of his psyche.

Carl Jung

1933

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Civilization Progress Human nature

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Psychological literature

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1933

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Carl Jung

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Jung, Carl. "Archaic Man." Modern Man in Search of a Soul, translated by Cary F. Baynes and William Stanley Dell. Kegen Paul, Trenche, Trubner & Co., 1933.

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