Complex/Archetype/Symbol in the Psychology of C. G. Jung

249 Pages·2013·7.82 MB·English

by  Jolande Jacobi

The International Library ofPsychology
COMPLEX!ARCHETYPE/SYMBOL
IN THE PSYCHOLOGY OF C G lUNG
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The International Library ofPsychology
ANALYTICAL PSYCHOLOGY
In 12 Volumes
1 StudiesinAnalyticalPsychology Adler
II Complex/Archetype/Symbolin the
PsychologyofCGJung Jacohi
III PsychologyofCGJung ]acohi
IV ExperimentinDepth Martin
V Arnotand Psyche Nell1/lann
VI Arl:and theCreadveUnconscious Neulllan11
VII TheOriginsandHistoryofConsciousness Nelttl1ann
VIII Jung'sPsychologyanditsSocjalMeaning P,'Ogol!
IX Religionand theCureofSoulsinJung's
Psychology Schaer
X ConsciousOrientation vatldet'Hoop
XI Luciferand Prometheus Werhlowsky
XII TheSecretoftheGoldenFlower Wi/helm
COMPLEX/ ARCHETYPE/SYMBOL IN
THE PSYCHOLOGY OF
CGJUNG
JOLANDE JACOBI
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CONTENTS
Illustrations viii
Foreword, by C. G. Tung ix
EditoriaZ"Nate xii
I. COMPLEX I ARCHETYPE / SYMBOL
INTRODUCTION 3
C~prnx 6
The feeling..toned groups of representations in
the unconscious 6
Autonomy of the co~plexes 9
On the phenomenology oftIlecomplex 1S
Thedifferencebetween tlie conceptions of Juog
and of Freud 19
The two kinds of complexes 22
-Complexes belong to the basic structure of the
psyche 25
Neurosis and psychosis 2.8
ARCHETYPE 31"
Of the nature of the archetype 31
The historical development of the concept of
the arclletype in tIle work of Jung 33
Archetype,. instinct, and brain structure 35
The biological aspect of the archetype 39
+6
Realistic and symbolic understanding
Archetype and Platonic idea 49
Thearclletypes are not inherited images 51
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CONTENTS
Archetype s:od Gestalt "53
The hierarchy of the ,ar~lletypes 55
On the collective unconscious 59
Archetype and synchronicity 62.
Archetypeandconsciousness 66
An example from the world of dreams 6t)
SYMB~ ~
Archetypeand symbol 74
'Xh
at is a symbol? "77
S}~lnbo.l and sign 79
T.r.le symbol in Freud and Jung 88
Thesymbol as mediator 94
The symbol as a transformer of energy 99
Individual and collective symbols 103
The ego between: the collective consciousness
and the Collective unconscious 110
The symbols of the individuation process 113
The psyche's capacity for symbol transforma-
tion 116
Summary
118
II. ARCHETYPE AND DREAM
INTRODUCTION 127
THE DREAM OF THE BADANIMAL 1~9
Thehermaphroditic aspect of the animal 144
Dragon and snake 146
Thehom 1$0
The horned serpent 152
Impaling (Uspiking upU) and devouring 153
Thedual psychologlcal aspect of the animal 1,6
The little animals 158
The blue fog or vapor 160
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CON-TENTS
The four 165
One and four 16
9
.The rebirth 175
The night sea journey. 179
CONCLUSION 190
ListofWorks Cited 199
Index 2.13
The CollectedWorks of C. Gil Tung 2.31
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ILLUSTRATIONS
..Frontispiece~ E--xorcising Complexes in the Seven..
'teenth Century
Woodcut, 1648, from a leaftet' ridiculing doctors and
their methods. Nurcl11berg, Germanisches Museum
Fig. 1. Night, Sleept Dea.~h1 and Dream
Woodcnt from V. Cart~ri~ Le IntcJgini de i dei de gli
cmtichi (Lyons, 1581) 126
Fig. ~I The Snake as a Symbol of the Curr~nt of
Time
Woodcut from Chr. CoUcrus Silcsius, Lux in Tenebds
(1657) 14°
Fig 3. Jona]I, Swallowed by.the Whale and Dis
I
gorgep
D.,rawings from a 14th-century ms.. of the "'Biblio pau
p~rum," St. Florian Monaste[y~ Upper Austria. From a
facsimile edn., ed. A. Camesilla and G. lIeider (Vienna,
1863) 180
Fig, 4. TIle Uroboros
Dra\ving from a Greek ms. of tlle Alexandrian period,
4th to 1St centuries B~C. 197
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FOREWORDl
The problem this book is concerned with is one in which
It too, have been interested for a long time. It is now ex..
actly fifty years since I learned, thanks to the associa·
tion experiment, tIle role which complexes play in our
conscious life. The thing that mo~t impressed me was the
peculiar autonoluy the complexes display as compared .
with tIle other contents of"consciousness. Whereas the
latterare under thecontrol of the will, comingorgoingat
its comluand, complexes eitl1er force themselves on our
consciollsness by breaking through its inhibiting effect, or
else, just'as suddenly, they obstinately reSist our conscious
intention to reproduce them. Complexes have not only
an obsessive, but very often a possessive, character, be...
having like imps and giving rise to all sorts of annoying,
ridiculous, and revealing actions, slips of the tongue, and
falsifications of memory and judgment. They cut across
the adapted performance of consc1ousness.
It was not difficult toseethat·whilecomplexes owetheir
relative autonomy to their ~motional nature, their ~pres­
sian is always dependent on a network of associations
grouped round a center charged with affect. The central
emotion generally proved to be individually acquired, and
thereforean exclusively personal matter. Increasing experi.
enceSllOWed,however thatthecomplexes~enotinfinifely
ll
variable, but mostly belong to definite catego~ies, which
soon began to acquire their popular, and by now hack...
ncyed, designations-inferiori~y complex, power complex,
1Translated by R. F. C. 1-1ull.
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