Editing Carl Jung (section)

===Political views===
====The state====
Jung stressed the importance of [[Natural and legal rights|individual rights]] in a person's relation to the state and society. He saw that the state was treated as "a quasi-animate personality from whom everything is expected" but that this personality was "only camouflage for those individuals who know how to manipulate it".<ref>{{cite book|isbn=978-0-451-21860-5|title=The Undiscovered Self: The Problem of the Individual in Modern Society|pages=15–16|publisher=New American Library|last=Jung|first=Carl|year=2006}}</ref> He referred to the state as a form of slavery.<ref>C. G. Jung, ''Die Beziehungen zwischen dem Ich und dem Unbewußten'', chapter one, second section, 1928. Also, C. G. Jung ''Aufsätze zur Zeitgeschichte'', 1946. Speeches made in 1933 and 1937 are excerpted.</ref><ref>{{cite book|isbn=978-0-451-21860-5|title=The Undiscovered Self: The Problem of the Individual in Modern Society|page=14|publisher=New American Library|last=Jung|first=Carl|year=2006}}</ref><ref name="Jung 2006 23–24">{{cite book|isbn=978-0-451-21860-5|title=The Undiscovered Self: The Problem of the Individual in Modern Society|pages=23–24|publisher=New American Library|last=Jung|first=Carl|year=2006}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|isbn=978-0-300-16650-7|title=Psychology and Religion|page=59|publisher=The Vail-Ballou Press ic.|last=Jung|first=Carl<!-- |year=1960 -->}}</ref> He also thought that the state "swallowed up [people's] religious forces",<ref>{{cite book|isbn=978-0-451-21860-5|title=The Undiscovered Self: The Problem of the Individual in Modern Society|page=23|publisher=New American Library|last=Jung|first=Carl|year=2006}}</ref> and therefore that the state had "taken the place of God"—making it comparable to a religion in which "state slavery is a form of worship".<ref name="Jung 2006 23–24"/> Jung observed that "stage acts of [the] state" are comparable to religious displays:

{{blockquote|Brass bands, flags, banners, parades and monster demonstrations are no different in principle from ecclesiastical processions, cannonades and fire to scare off demons.<ref>{{cite book|isbn=978-0-451-21860-5|title=The Undiscovered Self: The Problem of the Individual in Modern Society|page=25|publisher=New American Library|last=Jung|first=Carl|year=2006}}</ref>}}

From Jung's perspective, this replacement of God with the state in a mass society leads to the dislocation of the religious drive and results in the same [[fanaticism]] of the [[Papal States|church-states]] of the [[Dark Ages (historiography)|Dark Ages]]—wherein the more the state is 'worshipped', the more freedom and morality are suppressed;<ref>{{cite book|isbn=978-0-451-21860-5|title=The Undiscovered Self: The Problem of the Individual in Modern Society|page=24|publisher=New American Library|last=Jung|first=Carl|year=2006}}</ref> this ultimately leaves the individual psychically undeveloped with extreme feelings of marginalization.<ref>{{cite book|isbn=978-0-451-21860-5|title=The Undiscovered Self: The Problem of the Individual in Modern Society|page=14 & 45|publisher=New American Library|last=Jung|first=Carl|year=2006}}</ref>

====Service to the Allies during World War II====
Jung was in contact with [[Allen Dulles]] of the [[Office of Strategic Services]] (predecessor of the [[Central Intelligence Agency]]) and provided valuable intelligence on the psychological condition of [[Hitler]].  Dulles referred to Jung as "Agent 488" and offered the following description of his service: "Nobody will probably ever know how much Professor Jung contributed to the Allied Cause during the war, by seeing people who were connected somehow with the other side".  Jung's service to the Allied cause through the OSS remained classified after the war.<ref>{{Cite news | url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-shrink-as-secret-agent-jung-hitler-and-the-oss | title=The Shrink as Secret Agent: Jung, Hitler, and the OSS| newspaper=The Daily Beast| date=12 November 2016| last1=Dickey| first1=Christopher}}</ref>