ABSTRACT
The incompatibility of Jung's psychology with any form of traditional monotheism or simple theism has far reaching political implications. A frequently heard criticism of Jungian psychology attacks its allegedly solipsistic individualism. Such criticism fails to distinguish an unrelated individualism from the process of maturation Jung describes as ``individuation''. This latter process is hostile to an isolated individualism because it rests on the experience and agency of the ground of the individual psyche as the source of consciousness universally. Intercourse with such an agency breeds in and of itself a universal sentiment and a compassion as encompassing as the universality of its ground. This same ground is also the source of archetypal patterns of social, political and religious bonding needed by every society as the basis of its social cohesion. However, this very bonding needed as a community's support can also be its cof®n. Latently such cohesion can induce in its members an unconscious adhesion to its values whose intensity is frequently directly proportionate to its aversion for differently bonded communities. More, Jungian psychology understands the unconscious to seek historical archetypal realization in individual and archetypally bonded communities in such a manner that no realization of individual or communal archetypal expression can ever exhaust the source of such expression. The ®nal kingdom can never come.
