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Adding to library failed. Please try again. Free with day Trial. Memories, Dreams, Reflections By: C. Are you an author? Jung invented the association word test and contributed the word complex to psychology, and first described the "introvert" and "extrovert" types.
His interest in the human psyche, past and present, led him to study mythology, alchemy, oriental religions and philosophies, and traditional peoples. Later he became interested in parapsychology and the occult. He thought that unidentified flying objects UFOs might be a psychological projection of modern people's anxieties. He died on June 6, after a short illness. Man and His Symbols. Nothing makes any sense.
With others its different, but for me… I enjoy nothing. The whole of life takes on a sad and oppressive aspect. Such dark moods can even lure a man to suicide, in which case the anima becomes a death demon. The anima, like the shadow, has two sides:. Are they a death demon singing you a siren song like the Lorelei of Teutonic myth?
Man and His Symbols owes its existence to one of Jung's own dreams. The great psychologist dreamed that his work was understood by a wide public, rather. Man and His Symbols book. Read reviews from the world's largest community for readers. Illustrated throughout with revealing images, this is the firs .
The hunter is drowned because he ran after a wishful fantasy that could not be fulfilled. Are you simply projecting onto someone who plays the role of coquette well? Do you know how close you are to drowning?
Of course, the anima has a light side that can guide you on your path:. This positive function occurs when a man takes seriously the feelings, moods, expectations, and fantasies sent by his anima and when he fixes them in some form — for example, in writing, painting, sculpture, musical composition, or dancing.
When he works at this patiently and slowly, other more deeply unconscious material wells up from the depths and connects in some specific form, it must be examined both intellectually and ethically, with an evaluating feeling action. Treat the messages sent to you by your unconscious as real. Then set about fixing that which needs to be fixed. Its dimensions in time and space are quite different; to understand it you must examine it from every aspect — just as you may take an unknown object in your hands and turn it over and over until you are familiar with every detail of its shape.
But how do you even begin to examine such an unknown object? But the dream world is not civilised life. Why are these images so important? In our conscious life, we are exposed to all kinds of influences. Other people stimulate or depress us, events at the office or in our social life distract us. Such things seduce us into following ways that are unsuitable to our individuality.
Whether or not we are aware of the effect they have on our consciousness, it is disturbed by and exposed to them almost without defence. On the contrary, their meaning and their emotional significance for us becomes more imprecise the more closely we examine them. The reason for this is that anything we have heard or experienced can become subliminal — that is to say, can pass into the unconscious. And even what we retain in our conscious mind and can reproduce at will has acquired an unconscious undertone that will colour the idea each time it is recalled.
Our conscious impressions, in fact, quickly assume an element of unconscious meaning that is physically significant for us, though we are not consciously aware of this existence of this subliminal meaning of the way in which is both extends and confuses the conventional meaning. Consciousness is coloured as richly with our individuality as our unconscious — so why revere one and scorn the other? We both assume we understand each other when we use those words, but we also know — however unconsciously — that this is not a full understanding. The reason for this variation is that a general notion is received into an individual context and is therefore understood and applied in a slightly individual way.
And the difference of meaning is naturally greatest when people have widely different social, political, religious, or psychological experience. Jung points out that the different variations on the same word are subliminal and never realized until held under great scrutiny.
And keep digging. But why bother to clarify your terms? This is particularly true in psychology, where we speak of archetypes like the anima and animus, the wise man, the great mother, and so on. You can know all about the saints, sages, prophets, and other godly men, and all the great mothers of the world.
But if they are mere images whose numinosity you have never experienced, it will be as if you were talking in a dream, for you will not known what you are talking about. The mere words you use will be empty and valueless. They gain life and meaning only when you try to take into account their numinosity — i. Their relationship to the living individual. Only then do you begin to understand that their names mean very little, whereas the way they are related to you is all-important. I had to look up that word numinosity. I suggest you check out the meaning yourself.
Dream dictionaries suck because they neglect the individual.
I see a monkey in my dream and it means something completely different from the monkey in your dream. It is through the individual that the collective finds freedom. In these times of social upheaval and rapid change, it is desirable to know much more than we do about the individual human being, for so much depends upon his mental and moral qualities.
The problem is that most individuals are asleep.