The Climate Movement is a Symbol for Inner Destruction

This from Von Franz might be helpful:

Let us assume that there is in you an unconscious liar and you meet someone who lies like a trooper.

You can only recognise the liar in the other because you are a liar yourself, otherwise you would not be aware of the other.

A quality in another perosn can only be recognised if one has the same quality and knows what it feels like to lie, and therefore one recognises the same thing in the other person.

Since the other person really is a liar, you have made a true statement, and why should you call that a projection which should be taken back? It makes the basis for a relationship, for you think to yourself: If X is a liar, whatever he tells me I must not believe entirely, I must question it.

That is very reasonable and well adapted and right. It would be very wrong to think it was only one's projection, and that one should believe the other person; one would be a fool to do so.

But if you take that philisophically, then is it a projection or a statement of fact?

Philisophically, you cannot reach a conclusion, you can only say that subjectively it seems to be correct. That is why Jung says and this is a subtle point which is seldom understood when people think about projections that we can only speak of projection, in the proper sense of the word, when there already exists a certain uneasiness, when the feeling identity is disturbed; that is, when I have an uneasy feeling as to whether what I have said about X is true or not. Until that has happened autonomously within me, there is no projection.

ML von Franz (Alchemy, pg. 35)

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