Carl G. Jung (1875-1961) was a Swiss psychologist whose principles hav - PDF document

99 Carl G. Jung (1875-1961) was a Swiss psychologist whose principles have been foundto be applicable to nearly all academic disciplines from mythology to religion toPROBABLY NONE OF MY empirical conceptsidea of the collective unconscious. In what follows(2) a description of what it means for psychology,but owe their existence exclusively to heredity.Whereas the personal unconscious consists for theunconscious is made up essentially of archetypesforms in the psyche which seem to be presentthem “motifs”; in the psychology of primitivesthey correspond to Levy-Bruhl’s concept of“representations collectives,” and in the field ofementary” or “primordial thoughts.” From theseof the archetype—literally a pre-existent form—to be the only empirical psyche (even if we tack onin all individuals. This collective unconscious doesof pre-existent forms, the archetypes, which candefinite form to certain psychic contents.Medical psychology, growing as it did out of natureand Adler. It is a psychology of the personpsychology is based on certain general biological children today, instead of having good and evilfather” and a “godmother.”times and in all places. In the earliest beginnings ofit is the key idea in medieval, occult philosophy,were handed over. Benvenuto Cellini also had thisidea, as he himself relates in his autobiography.versely that those few who shared Leonardo’s fatewhich is reflected in these motifs. If Leonardo daof Horapollo, a book much in use in Leonardo’sand symbolize the mother. They conceive throughity. Even in the account of the miracle at Pentecostdoubt to Mary, who, a virgin by nature, conceivedthrough the pneuma, like a vulture. Furthermore,according to Horapollo, the vulture also symbol-prehistory. And what about all the other artistsLet us now transpose Leonardo’s case to thehaving really had two mothers. The personalright—and yet it would be quite wrong. For inonly in medicine—could have so great a determin-forces. Nevertheless a purely personalistic psy-chology, by reducing everything to personal causes,personal analysis. I consider this a rather dangerousprocedure which cannot be justified medically.Today you can judge better than you could twentyarchaic symbol, yes, even archaic religious forms,Carl Jung say, the relevant associative material in which it isfantasy by observing the further fantasy materialthat adds itself to the fragment in a natural manner.images and associations. Obviously, this is aselected cases. The method is not entirely withoutaway from reality. A warning against thoughtlessFinally, very interesting sources of archetypalparanoiacs, the fantasies observed in trance-states,to the fifth year. Such material is available inconvincing mythological parallels. It does not, ofsame functional meaning. Establishing such factssearches, but is also an ungrateful subject forto sleep.I am choosing as an example a case which,been interned for many years. The patient hadgifts, and I myself knew nothing of mythology orarchaeology in those days, so the situation was notstanding at the window, wagging his head andfor then I would see something very interesting.When I asked him what he saw, he was astonishedthe sun’s penis—when I move my head to and fro,it moves too, and that is where the wind comesthrew light on this fantasy. The work, published inBibliotheque Nationale, Paris. Dieterich believed heCorpus Hermeticum. In Dieterich’s text we read theCarl Jung