Collected Papers on Analytical PsychologyJung, C. G. (Carl Gustav)
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Collected Papers on Analytical Psychology
Jung, C. G. (Carl Gustav)
Psychoanalysis
Development of concepts--Removal of repression does not
empty the unconscious--Repression is a special phenomenon--The
unconscious contains not only repressed material, but subliminal
sense-impressions which have never reached consciousness--It is
constantly busied with new phantasy formation--Patients are urged
to retain their hold on repressed materials that analysis has
brought into consciousness--Prolonged analysis reveals contents
other than those of a personal nature--Necessity to differentiate a
layer called the "personal" unconscious whose materials originate
in the personal past--Their omission from consciousness constitutes
a defect or neglect--The moral reaction against this neglect shows
they could become conscious if sufficient trouble were taken--The
gradual transference of the personal unconscious contents into
consciousness extends the periphery of consciousness.
II. THE CONSEQUENCES OF ASSIMILATION OF THE UNCONSCIOUS 449
First result is increased self-consciousness--May lead to
a sense of God-Almightiness in one type, or to overwhelming
self-depreciation in the other--A result of ascribing to
oneself qualities or vices that do not belong individually but
collectively--The collective pysche divided into collective
mind and collective soul--The collective contains the "parties
inférieures" of Janet; the conscious and personal unconscious
contains the "parties supérieures"--Incorporation of the impersonal
unconscious leads to a dissolution of the pairs of opposites--As
seen in neurotic, who combines megalomania and sense of inferiority
in extreme degree--Primitive man possesses the collective vices and
virtues in an undifferentiated way--Mental conflict only begins
with conscious personal development--Desire to be good brings about
repression of the bad--Collective view-point, though necessary,
is dangerous to individuality--Collective psyche is the result of
psychological differentiation of the gregarious instincts--Dangers
of identification with collective psyche--Recognition of the
different psychology of the types a safeguard, promoting a proper
respect for individuality of the opposite type--Individuation
hampered by man's suggestibility and tendency to imitation.
III. THE INDIVIDUAL AS AN EXCERPT OF THE COLLECTIVE PSYCHE 456
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