Races and nations as functions of the world whole

impulses from our individual past, but also from the collective to which we belong. The basic unity of mankind of which religions have spoken has thus been demonstrated by psychology. Although we are for the most part quite unconscious of it, every nation and every race, in fact all forms of life over the whole world contribute to the contents of our individual souls. In our deepest unconscious each one of us contains the whole. As Mitrinovié wrote:

“The unity of Mankind, nay, of the whole of creation, which physiology has affirmed, psychology now confirms. It is no longer religion but science that announces the inter-relation and inter-dependence of all forms of life, past, present and future’.

Within the last hundred years psychology has arisen as a new science dealing with the human soul, and it is indeed true that what religions previously accepted as a fact, psychology has now confirmed scientifically. In the present century the scientific investigation opening up the previously uncharted world of the unconscious has proceeded, from the work of Freud, then Jung, Adler, Groddeck and others. This has revolutionised our understanding of a great deal of human life, even though it has not yet penetrated to universal acceptance. Many people tend to reject the idea of their own unconscious because, in the nature of the case, it remains unconscious. Of course there are very considerable differences in the approach made by these different pioneers of investigation into the vast reserves of human psychic experience and energy. Freud and his followers maintain that man’s unconscious houses all the shameful and troublesome areas of his experience that he does not wish to face and that he therefore denies and pushes down into the ‘unknown’. But other interpretations show.a known and an unknown part of the human psyche, both of equal value to the individual.

Jung, in his work with the mentally deranged, made further discoveries as a result of going into man’s unconscious world. He saw the human psyche as a coherent structure, not just as a list of faculties or a hotch-potch of feelings, desires, and so on. In his fourfold analysis of the human psyche, which he used so as to develop a typology of four types of person, there was an inner relationship between the different parts, and this inner dynamic