Here’s another tasty treat from Von Franz’s Alchemy:

…I saw that children have tremendous difficulty because it is the function of the school, and the tendency of the development in those years, to grow into collective consciousness. The assimilation of collective consciousness is in fact the function of the school, and therefore the originality of individual consciousness generally fades and at twenty people are a sack of collective knowledge. If you ask them their opinion about anything, they just repeat what their parents or their friends say, or what they have read in the paper, and you have the greatest difficulty bringing them back to one unique conscious personal reaction.

If that ain’t the truth, I don’t know what is. How many people have you known like that? Goddamn