The unconscious is not just evil by nature, it is also the source of t…

Carl Jung
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The unconscious is not just evil by nature, it is also the source of the highest good: not only dark but also light, not only bestial, semihuman, and demonic but superhuman, spiritual, and, in the classical sense of the word, divine. ✨ Carl Gustav Jung (1968). The Collected Works
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