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Freud’s achievement, along with his more questionable assertions, was to discover the personal unconscious. This consists of memories that have been forgotten or suppressed, but which continue to influence the way a person thinks and behaves, usually unfortunately. By hypnotism Freud would uncover these memories. When his patients came out of hypnotism Freud would remind them of memories they had suppressed. This enabled Freud’s patients to overcome irrational fears. What cannot be denied to Jung is - dreams and fantasy images have a rhyme and reason based on archetypes, and contain evocative symbols that can be explained and interpreted. Jung looks at the world through the optics of "libido" or creative will. When libido encounters an obstacle in adolescence it regresses to a more primitive form of relationship - to childhood, or infancy. Sacrificing this libido, and facing up against the unconscious, whether willingly or unwillingly, allows us to either move forward in life or wade into neurosis.

I once came across the following hallucination in a schizophrenic patient. He told me he could see an erect phallus on the sun. When he moved his head from side to side, he said, the sun’s phallus moved with it, and that was where the wind came from.” The original 1912 edition of this work is of central importance in pointing out the direction in which Jung's "analytical psychology" diverged from psychoanalysis. The issue was, narrowly, libido theory and, broadly, religion. Jung was primarily a discursive, connotative thinker, his mind working by association, glorying in the riches of native imagination. He was, in this sense, an artist. For him, libido was simply the energetic principle of the psyche. Freud was more the scientist, seeking explanatory models in the field of psychology much as a physicist attempts to describe laws adequate to explain physical phenomena. For him, libido was the erotic drive, his models all being self-consciously related to evolutionary theory. It is perhaps relevant to note that there was a two decade age difference between the two men at the time of their break and that while Freud apparently was sexually distant from his wife and not prone to affairs (there's only evidence for one), Jung, the younger, had a far more active and wide-ranging sex life. Jung based this book on the self-published dream-fantasies of an American girl at the turn of the 20th century, but he admits to "have stumbled upon problems of such enormous proportions" that he himself is unsure if he's right about them.Jung claims to find much archetypal imagery in the poetry of an obscure poet he names “Miss Miller.” If his concepts had more validity we would expect to find archetypical imagery in popular literature written from the oral tradition, such as the Iliad and the Odyssey by Homer, and the East Indian epics the Mahabharata and the Ramayana. Jung rarely mentions these. His archetypical images do not appear in them. Jung appears not to have read the Ramayana, and to be unaware of the Mahabharata. A social thinker should be read for insight, rather than doctrine. After a reasonably extensive study of the writings of Jung I believe that there is a collective unconscious, but that it is less detailed than Jung maintained. Moreover, he hardly mentioned the most important archetypical figure of the collective unconsciousness. This is the myth of the dragon. Collected Works of C.G. Jung, Volume 3: Psychogenesis of Mental Disease". Princeton University Press . Retrieved 2014-01-17. Jung's interest in this book is to explain and illustrate how the conscious mind functions in dialog with the unconscious, and accordingly, how symbols are to be interpreted, using Miss Miller's journal as a primarily orientation. Along the way he takes a deep look at numerous mythological and literary artifacts of relevant import, such as Longfellow's "Song of Hiawatha" and Wagner's "Ring des Nibelungen," along with various myths and the work of poets and philosophers such as Nietzsche and Hölderlin. He also directly ties his analysis to Christianity to a degree I have often not found in his work - I believe he was later concerned to avoid the charge that he was reducing Christianity, or indeed any religious or psychological system, to a mere epiphenomenon of psychodynamic processes, as Freud was interested to do. That is clearly not his intent.

Reading every chapter of this book is necessary. Jung's theories are very complex and so they progress as the book moves forward. Reading the entire book is a bit of a commitment, but the introductory chapters cannot explain the entire book's thesis statement. Abstracts of the Collected Works of C.G. Jung; Volume 5: Symbols of Transformation". International Association for Analytic Psychology . Retrieved 2019-10-29. The book—with ten plates, a bibliography, an index, and an appendix of original Latin and Greek texts quoted—provides a final account of Jung's lengthy researches in alchemy. He empirically discovered that certain key problems of modern man were prefigured in what the alchemists called their "art" or "process." Edward F. Edinger poses an important question in the introduction to his book The Mystery of The Conjunctio:Jung created some of the best known psychological concepts, including the archetype, the collective unconscious, the complex, and synchronicity. The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), a popular psychometric instrument, has been developed from Jung's theory of psychological types. Abstracts: Vol 8: The Structure and Dynamics of the Psyche [ sic]". International Association for Analytic Psychology. What Jung has to convey is so truly original and so far ranging in its implications that I suspect this book will be a real challenge even to those most psychologically sophisticated. What he here presents in rich and documented detail can perhaps best be described as an anatomy of the objective psyche. Editions [ edit ]

Abstracts: Vol 17: The Development of Personality". International Association for Analytic Psychology. Abstracts: Vol 4: Freud & Psychoanalysis". International Association for Analytic Psychology . Retrieved 2020-08-22. The dragonfly is an insect attributed to transformation. The symbol of a dragonfly personifies the versatility of change witnessed through the course of everyday life. Dragonflies are small in stature but have wings that are usually in motion. For a mythical creature to be considered part of the collective unconscious it must be connected to an instinct that has survival value, or did have during human evolution. Jung’s archetypes rarely have that value.C.G. Jung's Collected Works: Abstracts". International Association for Analytical Psychology . Retrieved 2020-08-22. This volume is the general index to the eighteen published textual volumes in the Collected Works of C.G. Jung. The comprehensive indexing goes beyond the volume indexes, and includes sub-indexes to important general topics, such as Alchemical Collections; Codices and Manuscripts; Freud; and the sub-indexing for the Bible arranged by book, chapter and verse. [5] [37] Psychiatric Studies, volume 1 in The Collected Works, contains Jung's papers written between 1902 and 1905, focusing on descriptive and experimental psychiatry from his early days in medical practice. They show the influence on Jung of Eugen Bleuler and Pierre Janet. [7] The particular element of the dragonfly attributes to overwhelming change that is able to take place one step at a time. Dragonflies also represent light and progress. They also symbolize satisfaction, flexibility, and a connection with nature.

https://whatismyspiritanimal.com/spirit-totem-power-animal-meanings/insects/caterpillar-symbolism-meaning/ In 1911, Jung said that the book "laid down a programme to be followed for the next few decades of my life." It covers many and varied fields of study, including among others: psychiatry, psychoanalysis, ethnology, and comparative religion. It became a standard work and was translated into Spanish, Portuguese, French, Dutch and Italian as well as English. Its somewhat misleading title in English was The Psychology of the Unconscious. In the foreword to Symbols of Transformation, Jung wrote: An owl mostly implies intelligence, experience, and wisdom that is gained from age. But several interpretations of owls also hint at unveiling the unknown or disclosing the hidden. Owls also symbolize the capacity to detect deception. Practice of Psychotherapy, volume 16 in The Collected Works, contains essays on aspects of analytical therapy, specifically the transference, abreaction, and dream analysis. There is also an additional essay, " The Realities of Practical Psychotherapy", which was found among Jung's posthumous papers. [30] [31]Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 2015-01-28 15:12:49.41036 Associated-names Hull, R. F. C. (Richard Francis Carrington), 1913-1974; ebrary, Inc Bookplateleaf 0002 Boxid IA1146506 City Princeton, N.J. Donor In “Symbols of Transformation” C.G. Jung marked his divergence from the theories of Sigmund Freud. Freud was not pleased when his former acolyte formed a rival priesthood.

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