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- Wed Oct 08, 2025 6:51 am
- Forum: Philosophy of Mind
- Topic: The mind cannot know itself: the Dean Paradox
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Re: The mind cannot know itself: the Dean Paradox
The Dean Paradox — “the mind cannot know itself” — reflects the eternal tension within human consciousness. Carl Jung offered a profound perspective through his theory of anima and animus, explaining how the mind’s self-knowledge is often filtered through its inner opposites. The anima (the inner fe...