“... in consequence [of the decline of Christianity],” writes Carl Jung” the [religious] projections have largely fallen away from the divine figures and have necessarily settled in the human sphere…the [modern] “enlightened” intellect cannot imagine anything greater than ... those tin gods with totalitarian pretensions who call themselves State ...”**
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*Carl Jung, The Undiscovered Self
**Carl Jung, Practice of Psychotherapy
Both as quoted in https://academyofideas.com/2021/12/is-government-the-new-god-the-religion-of-totalitarianism/
See also: https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2021/12/when-pscience-becomes-god.html
Carl Gustav Jung (... 26 July 1875 – 6 June 1961), was a Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who founded analytical psychology. Jung's work has been influential in the fields of psychiatry, anthropology, archaeology, literature, philosophy, psychology[23] and religious studies. Jung worked as a research scientist at the famous Burghölzli hospital, under Eugen Bleuler. During this time, he came to the attention of Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis. The two men conducted a lengthy correspondence and collaborated, for a while, on a joint vision of human psychology. Freud saw the younger Jung as the heir he had been seeking to take forward his "new science" of psychoanalysis and to this end secured his appointment as President of his newly founded International Psychoanalytical Association. Jung's research and personal vision, however, made it impossible for him to follow his older colleague's doctrine and a schism became inevitable. This division was personally painful for Jung and resulted in the establishment of Jung's analytical psychology as a comprehensive system separate from psychoanalysis. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Jung