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“The main content of Jung’s private library was contemporary literature of the 19th and 20th century, mainly about medicine, psychiatry, psychology and philosophy. Additionally there are a great number of books on antique cultures, gnosis, christian symbols, eastern religion, ethnology and occultism. The library also contains a collection of about 300 rare books (printed before 1800) on alchemy, theurgy and kabbala, as well as antique literature on dreams, writings of church fathers and of the latin and greek classic.”

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The Way to the Self

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1 week 2 days ago #24 by Charles
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1918 - Jung published a paper “On the Unconscious” The prime function of the unconscious is the creation of symbols; we must be willing to recognize them. The unconscious is also relative to the epoch.  What Jung draws is not artistic; it is a symbol whose meaning must be determined. 1919 - paper - “The Psychological Foundations of Belief in Spirits”. The unconscious becomes active in times of individual or societal upheavals. Related to this Jung investigated the concept of types. 1921 [1923 in English] the book Psychological Types was published. Now the concept of self as a psychological concept is realized. The self is a union of opposites; but what is that? {union of a anima and an animus.  The soul gives rise to images that may be used in an artistic way, or philosophic, or quasi-religious, or licentiously.  A fifth way is needed, a psychological; psychology needs to distinguish itself from art, philosophy, and religion. 

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