## Metadata - Author: [[Murray Stein]] - Full Title: Jung's Map of the Soul - Category: #books ## Highlights - For Jung the study of the soul also became a matter of grave historical importance, for, as he once said, the whole world hangs on a thread and that thread is the human psyche. ([Location 100](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B003S3RL94&location=100)) - Once when he was criticized for being inconsistent on some point of theory, he responded: I have my eye on the central fire, and I am trying to put some mirrors around it to show it to others. Sometimes the edges of those mirrors leave gaps and don’t fit together exactly. I can’t help that. Look at what I’m trying to point to! ([Location 255](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B003S3RL94&location=255)) - Our knowledge as human beings about anything at all is conditioned by the capacities and limitations of our consciousness. To study consciousness, therefore, is to direct attention to the instrument that one is using for psychological investigation and exploration. ([Location 271](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B003S3RL94&location=271)) - Every ego has a shadow. This is unavoidable. In adapting to and coping with the world, the ego, quite unwittingly, employs the shadow to carry out unsavory operations that it could not perform without falling into a moral conflict. Without the ego’s knowledge, these protective and self-serving activities are carried out in the dark. The shadow operates much like a nation’s secret espionage system—without the explicit knowledge of the head of state, who is therefore allowed to deny culpability. ([Location 1778](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B003S3RL94&location=1778))