The Seba library treats Enthusiasm in 8 passages, across 4 authors (including Jung, C.G., Wilhelm, Richard, Richard Wilhelm, Cary F. Baynes).
Enthusiasm is an exceptional-state, and human reality is made up of a thousand vulga
Jung argues that enthusiasm is structurally transient and cannot substitute for the deeper, ordinary roots of genuine character, cautioning against collectively conjured enthusiasm that wanes with the words that summon it.
, Collected Works Volume 18: The Symbolic Life, 1976thesis
The source of enthusiasm. He achieves great things. Doubt not. You gather friends around you As a hair clasp gathers the hair.
Wilhelm’s commentary identifies authentic enthusiasm as rooted in the leader’s inner sureness and sincerity, which magnetically draws cooperation rather than compelling it.
, The I Ching or Book of Changes, 1950thesis
he attracts people because he has no doubts and is wholly sincere. Owing to his confidence in them he wins their enthusiastic cooperation and attains success.
The Wilhelm–Baynes translation establishes that authentic enthusiasm operates through sincerity and confidence, distinguishing it from ‘empty enthusiasm’ that squanders rather than generates energy.
, The I Ching or Book of Changes, 1950thesis
Such a deluded enthusiasm only repels others, and engages their distru: and life resistance modestly to following the good.
Anthony identifies ‘deluded enthusiasm’ with ego-inflation — specifically with the fantasy of an heroic spiritual quest — arguing that it produces alienation rather than genuine following.
, A Guide to the I Ching, 1988thesis
Deluded enthusiasm refers to times when the Inferior Man (ego) leads our personality. The Inferior Man relies on action, outward display, schemes, obsession, and devices to force progress.
Anthony equates deluded enthusiasm with ego dominance, cataloguing the inferior means — outward display, flattery, retaliation — by which the inflated ego counterfeit authentic enthusiasm.
, A Guide to the I Ching, 1988thesis
ENTHUSIASM leads to inertia. Appended Judgments … Yü means preparation as well as enthusiasm.
Wilhelm’s structural commentary reveals that the hexagram holds preparation and enthusiasm as cognates, and that unchecked enthusiasm paradoxically generates its opposite — inertia.
, The I Ching or Book of Changes, 1950supporting
When one possesses something great and is modest, there is sure to be enthusiasm. Hence there follows the hexagram of ENTHUSIASM.
The sequential logic of the I Ching positions enthusiasm as the natural consequence of greatness combined with modesty, grounding it in an ethical rather than merely emotional register.
, The I Ching or Book of Changes, 1950supporting
he was talking about Greece and Graecia Magna in most enthusiastic terms, and after the lecture a young man who had not understood something he had said … went up to the professor
Jung’s anecdote about Nietzsche illustrates how enthusiastic intellectual display can mask an underlying intolerance of others, linking enthusiasm to the shadow of grandiosity.
, Nietzsche’s Zarathustra: Notes of the Seminar Given in 1934-1939, 1988supporting