ABSTRACT
Long experience with the products of the unconscious has taught the author that there is a very remarkable parallelism between the specific character of the Western unconscious psyche and the "manifest" psyche of the East. Without first-hand experience it would be a hopeless task to approach the problem of Eastern psychology. One must be deeply and directly moved by the strangeness, one might almost say by the incomprehensibility, of the Eastern psyche. Knowledge of Eastern psychology provides the indispensable basis for a critique of Western psychology, as indeed for any objective understanding of it. One would be quite justified in saying the same thing about the Eastern psyche, but with the difference: that in the East it is consciousness that is characterized by an apperception of totality, while the West has developed a differentiated and therefore necessarily one-sided attention or awareness.
