Psychology of the Unconscious: A Study of the Transformations and Symbolisms of the Libido. A Contribution to the History of the Evolution of ThoughtJung, C. G. (Carl Gustav)
Philosophy
Psychology of the Unconscious: A Study of the Transformations and Symbolisms of the Libido. A Contribution to the History of the Evolution of Thought
Jung, C. G. (Carl Gustav)
Libido (Psychology); Mother and child; Psychoanalysis; Subconsciousness; Symbolism (Psychology)
(37) “He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of
me.”
Or _Luke_, chap. xii, v. 51:
“Suppose ye that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, Nay:
but rather division.
(52) “For from henceforth there shall be five in one house divided,
three against two, and two against three.
(53) “The father shall be divided against the son, and the son against
the father; the mother against the daughter, and the daughter against
the mother; the mother-in-law against the daughter-in-law, and the
daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.”
Horus snatched from his mother her head adornment, the power. Just as
Adam struggled with Lilith, so he struggles for power. Nietzsche, in
“Human, All Too Human,” expressed the same in very beautiful words:
“One may suppose that a mind, in which the ‘type of free mind’ is to
ripen and sweeten at maturity, has had its decisive crisis in a great
detachment, so that before this time it was just so much the more a
fettered spirit and appeared chained forever to its corner and its
pillar.[629] What binds it most firmly? What cords are almost
untearable? Among human beings of a high and exquisite type, it would
be duties: that reverence, which is suitable for youth, that modesty
and tenderness for all the old honored and valued things, that
thankfulness for the earth from which they grew, for the hand which
guided them, for the shrine where they learnt to pray:—their loftiest
moments themselves come to bind them the firmest, to obligate them the
most permanently. The great detachment comes suddenly for people so
bound.
“‘Better to die than to live here,’—thus rings the imperative voice of
seduction: and this here, this ‘at home’ is all, that it (the soul)
has loved until now! A sudden terror and suspicion against that which
it has loved, a lightning flash of scorn towards that which is called
‘duty,’ a rebellious, arbitrary, volcanic, impelling desire for
travelling, for strange countries, estrangements, coolness, frigidity,
disillusionments, a hatred of love, perhaps a sacrilegious touch and
glance backwards[630] there where just now it adored and loved,
perhaps a blush of shame over what it has just done, and at the same
time an exultation over having done it, an intoxicating internal
joyous thrill, in which a victory reveals itself—a victory? Over what?
Over whom? An enigmatic, doubtful, questioning victory, but the first
triumph. Of such woe and pain is formed the history of the great
detachment. It is like a disease which can destroy men,—this first
eruption of strength and will towards self-assertion.”[631]
The danger lies, as is brilliantly expressed by Nietzsche, in isolation
in one’s self:
“Solitude surrounds and embraces him ever more threatening, ever more
constricting, ever more heart-strangling, the terrible Goddess and
Mater sæva cupidinum.”
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