Which I assume was Jung’s fall-back position after getting a bit carried away with the pre-WWII German resurgence under Hitler, who was tapping into the collective unconscious and generating a lot of energy, which for a period of time was impressing a lot of people, not just Jung. The paradox of the beaten individuals finding energy within the collected group “worked” for a while, until it didn’t. But any time there is war, the masses are urged to be patriotic, support the stars and stripes, the Fatherland etc. In Vietnam, individuals who said “hell, no…” were castigated by the patriots, until the group of hell, noers got too large to dismiss (not that they still weren’t castigated). Righties and lefties like individuals if they are making decisions they approve of, but just as often they want them to join the group in some patriotic/socialistic collective effort.
Here’s a wild guess that if we had a Republican President doing essentially what Obama is doing, we would not be getting the glory of the individual talk from the right, but from the left. It all depends upon whose program we are supposed to be getting with, eh?
