THE SPIRITUAL PROBLEM OF MODERN MAN FROM MODERN MAN IN SEARCH OF A SOUL, by Carl Jung 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 What is Jungs distinctive

definition of the modern man, and why does he speak about this topic? (Paragraph 2) How did it come about? (12) What is the spiritual problem of modern man? (12) What does Jung think about the individual in mass society? (3 and 17) How is the individual related to the nation? (28) What is a stage or level of consciousness (3 and 5) What is a way to avoid the spiritual problem of today? (12, 13, 14) When Jung says that a human always has some kind of metaphysical system (14) what does this have to do with previous lectures in our class? What are ideals of modern man, and how does Jung regard them? (16) Apply the psychic or psychological law of paragraph 28 to some example of your choice. Where do great innovations come from? (30) Why? (1: the source is not merely an individuals consciousness) What does paragraph 38 have to do with Faust and patriarchy? What significance does the following sentence have for the whole essay? From Par. 49 And the days life is for many people such a bad dream that they long for the night when the spirit awakes? Why does the West have a fascination with the East and the body? (52) What is a general way of characterizing the Western spirit today? (51)

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Important ideas in this essay definition of the modern man or person (1,2 3, 6, and more) the position of the modern person in the social hierarchy and Jungs principle for distinguishing the levels in the social hierarchy (3) the value of culture in solving the problem of the modern soul (12): Jungs idea of an external form by which all the yearnings of the soul are expressed psychic energy must find its application in adequate and well-regulated ways (13) meaning of title: the modern person tries to refrain from acknowledging the might or importance of the psyche or human soul but the spiritual problem of its weakness or lack has caused it to be an issue of major importance today: to gain and preserve ones humanity and the quality of life ideals of the modern person: material security, general welfare, and humaneness science and technology have made having an inner, spiritual, or human life difficult (17) a symptom of the problem: the modern person is preoccupied with the self [and even then tends to not find it or find it through the means which tend to make it difficult anyway, e.g. self-help books in all areas of life are based on techniques and tend to be considered a material, magic solution to some needed change in attitude or life style] psychic law of balance of forces [like Freuds idea of the quantity of psychic forces] (28): For every piece of conscious life that loses its importance and valueso runs the lawthere arises a compensation in the unconscious. We may see this in an analogy to the conservation of energy in the physical world, for our psychic processes have a quantitative aspect also. psyche and nation: in one aspect the psyche is derived from the nation (28) great innovations come from below (30) there is a psychic life which embraces us all (33) modern and male and western traits: paragraphs 37 and 38 main trait of Western psyche today: an enormous tension between the opposite poles of outer and inner life (57)