CARL JUNG: Psychology, Synchronicity and Archetypes

T.T. Lawson | Carl Jung
Oct 22, 2016
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Carl Jung conceived of what he named “archetypes” as timeless forms that find psychic expression in images. He saw them as giving body to a collective unconscious, an inherited psychic structure present in all humans.

"The dream comes in as the expression of an involuntary,

unconscious psychic process beyond the control of the conscious mind.

It shows the inner truth and reality of the patient as it really is:

not as I conjecture it to be, and not as he would like it to be, but as it is.

I have therefore made it a rule to regard dreams

as I regard physiological facts: if sugar appears in the urine,

then the urine contains sugar, and not albumen or urobilin

or something else that might fit in better with my expectations.

That is to say, I take dreams as diagnostically valuable facts."

~ Carl Jung

Jung compels us to acknowledge the reality of psychic manifestations. A dream, for instance, is a fact. The dream content may be taken by the sceptical observer as gibberish—bits of nonsense somehow infiltrating the waking awareness; yet no one can deny that the bits are there. So it is with other psychic disturbances of the conscious attitude: moods, fantasies, fears that flood in on one for no good reason—all arguably groundless, but none the less real.Jung could find a pattern; and he demonstrated it in pragmatic ways (Lawson T.T.).

Source:

APA (American Psychological Assoc.) Lawson, T. T. (2008). Carl Jung, Darwin of the Mind. London: Karnac Books. MLA (Modern Language Assoc.) Lawson, Thomas T. Carl Jung, Darwin Of The Mind. London: Karnac Books, 2008. eBook Collection (EBSCOhost). Web. 22 Oct. 2016.