Jung, Gods, and Modern Man

Jung's concept of religion offers an
intriguing explanation of modern man's
alienation from his religious nature. In
this examination of Jung's religious
ideas and their connection with Christi-
anity and the recent tendency to mourn
the death of God, Antonio Moreno ex-
plores possible unconscious motiva-
tions behind modern man's religious
_ activity.
First Father Moreno discusses the
role and nature of concepts which are
presuppositions
of
Jung 's
religious
ideas: the collective unconscious, par-
ticularly the archetypes, which are the
source of religious factors and revela-
tion; and individuation, the process of
growth in man which is associated
with the development and assimilation
of certain archetypes, especially the
archetype of the self which Jung iden-
tifies with Christ. Next he ana Iyzes
Jung's ideas about religion, especially
Christian dogmas. He devotes a chapter
to myth, which for Jung is an expres-
sion of the deep religious needs of the
collective unconscious.