Carl Jung Brief Summary

Carl Jung begins the chapter narrating the story of how he ended up traveling to Africa. A friend of his invited him along to Tunis, where his friend had some business to attend to and he just wanted to get out of his normal day to day customs. To just forget for a while about his nationality (European) and experience a different type of culture, which he could do in that country. He then, in form of details, recounts everything he did. Where he went, what he did, who he met, what he encountered, and what he learned and experienced about this new reality. Jung, got to face particular types of situations and events which confronted his beliefs and his point of views in all sorts of ways. Personally and mentally. Involving his conscious way of interaction with the world in front of him and his unconscious way of his brain reacting to this fresh knowledge and involvement.

The author expresses his shock, and later on understanding, of how his unconscious acknowledge everything more intensely than his conscious viewpoint. Including almost entirely his surroundings and the people he saw or met. He tells the example of an Arab guy he saw passing by at the Sahara and on his dream this guy was trying to kill him. A reflection of how this Arab country affected his Europeanism.