# The Undiscovered Self  ## Metadata - Author: [[C.G. Jung]] - Full Title: The Undiscovered Self - Category: #books ## Highlights - When the rationalist directs the main force of his attack against the magical effect of the rite as asserted by tradition, he has in reality completely missed the mark. The essential point, the psychological effect, is overlooked, although both parties make use of it for directly opposite purposes. ([Location 273](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0B9KDHLR3&location=273)) ## New highlights added February 24, 2024 at 8:05 PM - development of science has directed his interest beyond the range of the conscious personality to the world of unconscious instinct dominated by sexuality and the power drive (or self-assertion) ([Location 722](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0B9KDHLR3&location=722)) - The seat of faith, however, is not consciousness but spontaneous religious experience, which brings the individual’s faith into immediate relation with God. Here we must ask: Have I any religious experience and immediate relation to God, and hence that certainty which will keep me, as an individual, from dissolving in the crowd? ([Location 816](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0B9KDHLR3&location=816))