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C.G. Jung: ” Probably none of my empirical concepts has met with so much misunderstanding as the idea of the collective unconscious.”

 Probably none of my empirical concepts has met with so much misunderstanding as the idea of the collective unconscious…. I. Definition The collective unconscious is part of the psyche which can be negatively distinguished from a personal unconscious by the fact that it does not, like the latter, owe its existence to personal experience and…

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C.G. Jung: “The whole of mythology could be taken as a sort of projection of the collective unconscious.”

  Mythology as a projection of the Collective Unconscious   “The collective unconscious-so far as we can say anything about it at all-appears to consist of mythological motifs or primordial images, for which reason the myths of all nations are its real exponents. In fact, the whole of mythology could be taken as a sort…

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Anima: Ten Quotations from Carl Jung

Salome Dancing Gustav Moreau The projection-forming factor is the anima. Wherever she appears in dreams, phantasies or visions, she appears personified, thereby demonstrating that basically she possesses all the outstanding characteristics of a female person. She is not an invention of the conscious, but a spontaneous production of the unconscious; neither is she a substitute…

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Jung’s Essay on Ulysses

James Joyce with Ezra Pound, Ford Madox Ford, and John Quinn, ca. 1923. Like every true prophet, the artist is the unwitting mouth-piece of the psychic secrets of his time, and is often as unconscious as a sleep walker. Carl Jung, in his essay on Ulysses James Joyce’s Ulysses is frequently considered one of the…