Therefore, I submit that the correct interpretation of Jung’s seemingly dual-aspect monist hypothesis above is the following: both the objective psyche (more specifically, the collective unconscious) and the objective world (i.e. matter) are conceptualinferences of ego-consciousness, neither being amenable to direct inspection. All we can know about them is their effects on ego-consciousness, caused by their impinging on it, either through the sense organs (in the case of the objective world) or through a shared, internal psychic boundary (in the case of the objective psyche). Therefore, it is
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