This is the last part of Chapter 1 of
Man and His Symbols. These are the last
paragraphs that Dr. Jung wrote in his
lifetime, and he finished it 10 days
before he died. "As any change must begin
somewhere it is the single individual
who will experience it and carry it
through. The change must indeed begin
with an individual. It might be any one
of us. Nobody can afford to look around
and to wait for somebody else to do what
he is loath to do himself. But since
nobody seems to know what to do, it might
be worthwhile for each of us to ask
himself whether by any chance his or her
Unconscious may know something that will
help us. Certainly the conscious mind
seems unable to do anything useful in
this respect. Man today is painfully
aware of the fact that neither his great
religions, nor his various philosophies,
seem to provide him with those
powerful animating ideas that would give
him the security he needs in face of the
present condition of the world.
