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)
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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)
The appearance of the hero Chiwantopel on horseback—Hero and
horse equivalent of humanity and its repressed libido—Horse
a libido symbol, partly phallic, partly maternal, like the
tree—It represents the libido repressed through the incest
prohibition—The scene of Chiwantopel and the
Indian—Recalling Cassius and Brutus: also delirium of
Cyrano—Identification of Cassius with his mother—His
infantile disposition—Miss Miller’s hero also infantile—Her
visions arise from an infantile mother transference—Her hero
to die from an arrow wound—The symbolism of the arrow—The
onslaught of unconscious desires—The deadly arrows strike
the hero from within—It means the state of introversion—A
sinking back into the world of the child—The danger of this
regression—It may mean annihilation or new life—Examples of
introversion—The clash between the retrogressive tendency in
the individual unconscious and the conscious forward
striving—Willed introversion—The unfulfilled sacrifice in
the Miller phantasy means an attempt to renounce the mother:
the conquest of a new life through the death of the old—The
hero Miss Miller herself.
VII.— THE DUAL MOTHER ROLE 341
Chiwantopel’s monologue—His quest for the “one who
understands”—A quest for the mother—Also for the
life-companion—The sexual element in the wish—The battle for
independence from the mother—Its peril—Miss Miller’s use of
Longfellow’s Hiawatha—An analysis of Hiawatha—A typical hero
of the libido—The miraculous birth—The hero’s birth symbolic
because it is really a rebirth from the mother-spouse—The
twofold mother which in Christian mythology becomes twofold
birth—The hero his own procreator—Virgin conception a mask
for incestuous impregnation—Hiawatha’s early life—The
identification of mother-nature with the mother—The killing
of a roebuck a conquering of the parents—He takes on their
strength—He goes forth to slay the father in order to
possess the mother—Minnehaha, the mother—Hiawatha’s
introversion—Hiding in the lap of nature really a return to
the mother’s womb—The regression to the presexual revives
the importance of nutrition—The inner struggle with the
mother, to overpower and impregnate her—This fight against
the longing for the mother brings new strength—The Mondamin
motive in other myths—The Savior-hero the fruit of the
entrance of the libido into the personal maternal
depths—This is to die, and be born again—Hiawatha’s struggle
with the fish-monster—A new deliverance from the mother—And
so again with Megissogwon, the Magician—The hero must again
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