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C. G. Jung Edited by William McGuire

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ANALYTICAL PSYCHOLOGY

PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS

Contents

INTRODUCTION, by William McGuire......................................................viiACKNOWLEDGMENTS.......................................................................xviiMEMBERS OF THE SEMINAR................................................................xviiiLIST OF ABBREVIATIONS.................................................................xixFOREWORD, by Gary F. de Angulo........................................................xxLecture 1: 23 March 1925..............................................................3Lecture 2: 30 March 1925..............................................................9Lecture 3: 6 April 1925...............................................................15Lecture 4: 13 April 1925..............................................................26Lecture 5: 20 April 1925..............................................................35Lecture 6: 27 April 1925..............................................................43Lecture 7: 4 May 1925.................................................................50Lecture 8: 11 May 1925................................................................58Lecture 9: 18 May 1925................................................................65Lecture 10: 25 May 1925...............................................................72Lecture 11: 1 June 1925...............................................................82Lecture 12: 8 June 1925...............................................................91Lecture 13: 15 June 1925..............................................................101Lecture 14: 22 June 1925..............................................................111Lecture 15: 29 June 1925..............................................................128Lecture 16: 6 July 1925...............................................................122Appendix to Lecture 16................................................................134"She".................................................................................136"The Evil Vineyard"...................................................................144"L'Atlantide".........................................................................151ADDENDA (Passages in Joan Corrie, ABC of Jung's Psychology, 1927).....................159INDEXES...............................................................................1631. General Index......................................................................1682. Cases in Summary...................................................................1693. Dreams, Fantasies, and Visions.....................................................170THE COLLECTED WORKS OF C. G. JUNG.....................................................173

Chapter One

23 March 1925

Dr. Jung:

No one seriously interested in analytical psychology can fail to have been struck with the astonishing width of the field embraced by it, and so I have thought it would be useful to all of us if, in the course of these lectures, we could obtain a view of that field. At the beginning, I would like to give you a brief sketch of the development of my own conceptions from the time I first became interested in problems of the unconscious. As on previous occasions, you can assist me greatly if you contribute written questions, permitting me to select the ones suitable for discussion.

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In 1896 something happened to me that served as an impetus for my future life. A thing of this sort is always to be expected in a man's life—that is to say, his family history alone is never the key to his creative achievements. The thing that started me off in my interest in psychology was the case of the fifteen-and-a-half-year-old girl whose case I have described in the Collected Papers, as the first contribution to that series. This girl was a somnambulist, and it was discovered by her sisters that they could obtain extraordinary answers to questions put to her when she was in the sleeping state: in other words, she was found to be a medium. I was impressed with the fact that, notwithstanding appearances, there must be a hidden life of the mind manifesting itself only in trance or in sleep. A little hypnosis would send this girl into a trance from which she would later awake as from sleep. During the trance several personalities would manifest themselves; and, little by little, I found I could call up by suggestion one personality or another. In short, I found I could have a formative influence on them.

Of course I became deeply interested in all these things and began to try to explain them, something I could not do as I was only twenty-one at the time, and quite ignorant along these lines. I said to myself, however, that there must be some world behind the conscious world, and that it was this world with which the girl was in contact. I began to study the literature of spiritism but could find no satisfaction there. Then I turned to philosophy, always seeking for a possible clue to these strange phenomena.

I was a student of medicine at the time and deeply interested in it, but also deeply interested in philosophy. Finally in my searching I came to Schopenhauer and Hartmann. From Schopenhauer I got a very enlightening point of view. His fundamental standpoint is that the will as a blind urge to existence is aimless; it simply "happened to the creative will to make the world." This is his position in The World as Will and Idea. However, in Will in Nature he drifts into a teleological attitude, though this is in direct opposition to his original thesis, something, be it said, which not infrequently happens to a philosopher. In this latter work he assumes that there is direction in the creating will, and this point of view I took as mine. My first conception of the libido then was not that it was a formless stream so to speak, but that it was archetypal in character. That is to say, libido never comes up from the unconscious in a formless state, but always in images. Using a figure of speech, the ore brought up from the mine of the unconscious is always crystallized.

Out of this reading of Schopenhauer, I got a tentative explanation of the possible psychology of the case I was studying; that is, I thought the personifications might be the result of this image-forming tendency of the libido. If I suggested a given person to the girl during her unconscious states, she would act that person out, and her answers to questions would come in a manner characteristic of the person suggested. From this I became convinced of the tendency of the unconscious material to flow into definite moulds. This gave a clue, too, to the disintegration of personality. In dementia praecox, for example, there is an independent working of the different parts of the psyche, but there is generally nothing vague about the different parts; the voices that are heard are the voices of definite individuals, of particular persons, and that is why they are so real. In the same way a spiritualist will always claim a high degree of individuality and personal character for his "spirits." At this time I thought that after all there might be ghosts.

My ideas of the unconscious, then, first became enlightened through Schopenhauer and Hartmann....