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The Unconscious Crowd and the Illusion of Conviction

What Carl Jung understood about mobs eighty years ago, and why it still explains why disagreement now feels personal.

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Dr. Jessie Virga
Aug 12, 2026
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I have been spending my breaks lately reading Psychology and Religion, a series of lectures Carl Jung delivered at Yale in 1937. As I write this, I am only at the beginning, still working through the…

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