ver. Another way of expressing the above would be that reality is relative. As Wilson offers, Ira Progoff's study of Jung begins with a typically Jungian sentence: "The world is rich with many dimensions of reality" (105).
Jung's early split from Sigmund Freud, his early mentor, was largely the result of Jung's relativism and belief that mental health is a lifelong, evolving process. While the Freudian school holds that major personality changes rarely occur after childhood, the Jungian view is of possibilities for lifelong growth and development" (Good 138). Jung believed that humankind possesses a "collective unconscious" that can offer wisdom if one is open to it.
Another example of Jung's relativism is his belief that the psyche is "distinctly more complicated and inaccessible than the body. It is ... the half of the world that comes into existence only when we become conscious of it" (Matson 258). To Jung, "psychic existence is the only category of existence of which one can have immediate knowledge, since nothing can be known unless it first appears as a psychic image" (Matson 258).
The task of education, as well as psychotherapy, according to Jung, should be to make the unconscious conscious for a realization of a whole perso
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