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When a living organism is cut off from its roots,

it loses a connection with the foundation of its existence and must necessarily perish.

Carl Jung dedicated his life to a single goal, which as he notes in his autobiography, was to penetrate into the secret of the personality.

To accomplish this task, he adopted the dictum of the great Roman poet Terence as his intellectual duty.

Nothing human is alien to me.

He probed the depths of the psyche like few before him, or few since,

and what he came to realize was just how little we know about the nature of our own psyche.

Our times, he wrote, characterized as they are by an almost total disorientation

in regard to the ends of human existence, stand in need, above all else, of a vast amount

of psychological knowledge.

In this video we explore some of what Jung learned about the inner world of the

psyche and examine the meaning behind his famous statement that we must strive to make the unconscious

conscious. Everything in the unconscious, wrote Jung, seeks outward manifestation, and the personality, too, desires to evolve out of its unconscious conditions

and to experience itself as a whole.

Psyche is a term that has been used to refer to many things, from life to breath to soul to spirit.

But Jung uses this term in a more modern way to refer to the mind in its most

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