a robot, i am not » jung http://jritchie.com an antidote to determinism Mon, 06 Sep 2010 15:44:48 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 the importance of myth and poetic imagery via Jung http://jritchie.com/965 http://jritchie.com/965#comments Wed, 07 Oct 2009 17:00:25 +0000 jritch http://jritchie.com/?p=965 “The collective unconscious appears to consist of mythological motifs or primordial images, for which reason the myths of all nations are its real exponents. In fact the whole of mythology could be taken as a sort of projection of the collective unconscious. We can see this most clearly if we look at the heavenly constellations, whose originally chaotic forms are organized through the projection of images. This explains the influence of the stars as asserted by astrologers. These influences are nothing but unconscious instrospective perceptions of the collective unconscious.”

from Jung’s lecture “The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious,” Collected Works

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