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established the identity of these with the older forms by the mass and the direction of its
own documentation.
But his argument for instinct, for a "collective unconscious," might still stand as
hypothesis--as no more than an extraordinary feat of scholarship--were it not found in the
psychiatrical clinic, every day, that men and women who have never heard of the
historical relationships dream the venerable symbols, and dream the legends--complete,
with their archetypal figures in the antique, classic forms. Human dreams--the very
functioning of the "unconscious" mind, as any dreamer will admit (not wishing to be held
accountable for what his sleeping brain considers)--repeat in the often unwilling and
usually uncomprehending ganglia of modem man all the patterns and persons and
problems and explaining devices with which his ancestors tried to express the very
instincts which he, as a rule, is busy all day trying to deny or repress. Thus the
unconscious mind endeavors to warn, instruct, and balance the individual's distorted or
distorting ego and the old idea that dreams have meaning is finally interpreted: they are
Function.
Children, who are not very conscious, by definition, also often draw the primitive
symbols spontaneously. They, too, dream dreams that once were religious practices and
legends and images of worship. Idiots, also, are bountifully productive of tangible proof
in speech and drawing; and the very natures of their afflictions shows how we are not
bare tablets, blank clay, or separated in any fashion from the million years we have been
men and the billion we have been beasts.
Our minds, whatever else they may be and may do, essentially own, whether we
are aware of it or not, the same kinship with life which our bodies have exhibited as they
grew in the womb to infancy, and our persons, as they developed from the cradle to such
maturity as we may individually possess. We belong in the trajectory of evolving
consciousness and that we can think, or that we think we can think, has not changed our
curve of ascent or even much accelerated it, so far as we can tell. The laws of instinct are
still absolute; they must still be served; the violation of them has in each instance its
appointed cost and it must be paid by men for what men do.
To understand is our new capacity--the peculiar limb of our species--our bright
wing. Until we understand instinct--the laws, limits and possibilities of it-all that we call
reason will but produce distortions in our views of ourselves and in our course, causing
us to slow or waver on the way. Reason will be rationalization for a temporal advantage,
whether it be pronounced by the President of the United States or the Pope: a mere
disturbance with a finite end, by opportunism fetched from instinct--a short-term purpose
confined by a narrow view of ourselves.
Instinct to live: to die.
To love: to fear.
To individuate: to submerge and belong.
To give and thus immortalize: to own and thus destroy.
To be powerful: to be humble.
To trust: to suspect. And so on.
The vehicles of the principle--men, sometimes whole nationsful--seem to deny the
truth of instinct for a long while, even as particles in a diffusing gas at one moment and in
one place will collect despite the general motion. But it operates in the end. The Bible is
an anthology of ways to state instinct (which is why it is precious) and Christ tried every
parable he could think of to explain what he knew of the corollary forms of creation and
destruction--of the steady increment of consciousness amidst chaos.
In the theory of the collective unconscious we have the same kind of key to the
energies of the mind that physicists have supplied for grosser energies.
Jung says that for every instinct in conscious use there is an equal and opposite
instinct-counterbalance in the unconscious mind. It might be added that instinct, like
inertia, tends to move unchecked until opposed. Or it might be said that instinct is the
thermodynamic law of all mind, conscious and unconscious, whereby psychological
energy is conserved, so that whether it be now in one form or now in its opposite form, it
never disappears And from this it might be inferred that the cyclicity of our partly [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]
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established the identity of these with the older forms by the mass and the direction of its
own documentation.
But his argument for instinct, for a "collective unconscious," might still stand as
hypothesis--as no more than an extraordinary feat of scholarship--were it not found in the
psychiatrical clinic, every day, that men and women who have never heard of the
historical relationships dream the venerable symbols, and dream the legends--complete,
with their archetypal figures in the antique, classic forms. Human dreams--the very
functioning of the "unconscious" mind, as any dreamer will admit (not wishing to be held
accountable for what his sleeping brain considers)--repeat in the often unwilling and
usually uncomprehending ganglia of modem man all the patterns and persons and
problems and explaining devices with which his ancestors tried to express the very
instincts which he, as a rule, is busy all day trying to deny or repress. Thus the
unconscious mind endeavors to warn, instruct, and balance the individual's distorted or
distorting ego and the old idea that dreams have meaning is finally interpreted: they are
Function.
Children, who are not very conscious, by definition, also often draw the primitive
symbols spontaneously. They, too, dream dreams that once were religious practices and
legends and images of worship. Idiots, also, are bountifully productive of tangible proof
in speech and drawing; and the very natures of their afflictions shows how we are not
bare tablets, blank clay, or separated in any fashion from the million years we have been
men and the billion we have been beasts.
Our minds, whatever else they may be and may do, essentially own, whether we
are aware of it or not, the same kinship with life which our bodies have exhibited as they
grew in the womb to infancy, and our persons, as they developed from the cradle to such
maturity as we may individually possess. We belong in the trajectory of evolving
consciousness and that we can think, or that we think we can think, has not changed our
curve of ascent or even much accelerated it, so far as we can tell. The laws of instinct are
still absolute; they must still be served; the violation of them has in each instance its
appointed cost and it must be paid by men for what men do.
To understand is our new capacity--the peculiar limb of our species--our bright
wing. Until we understand instinct--the laws, limits and possibilities of it-all that we call
reason will but produce distortions in our views of ourselves and in our course, causing
us to slow or waver on the way. Reason will be rationalization for a temporal advantage,
whether it be pronounced by the President of the United States or the Pope: a mere
disturbance with a finite end, by opportunism fetched from instinct--a short-term purpose
confined by a narrow view of ourselves.
Instinct to live: to die.
To love: to fear.
To individuate: to submerge and belong.
To give and thus immortalize: to own and thus destroy.
To be powerful: to be humble.
To trust: to suspect. And so on.
The vehicles of the principle--men, sometimes whole nationsful--seem to deny the
truth of instinct for a long while, even as particles in a diffusing gas at one moment and in
one place will collect despite the general motion. But it operates in the end. The Bible is
an anthology of ways to state instinct (which is why it is precious) and Christ tried every
parable he could think of to explain what he knew of the corollary forms of creation and
destruction--of the steady increment of consciousness amidst chaos.
In the theory of the collective unconscious we have the same kind of key to the
energies of the mind that physicists have supplied for grosser energies.
Jung says that for every instinct in conscious use there is an equal and opposite
instinct-counterbalance in the unconscious mind. It might be added that instinct, like
inertia, tends to move unchecked until opposed. Or it might be said that instinct is the
thermodynamic law of all mind, conscious and unconscious, whereby psychological
energy is conserved, so that whether it be now in one form or now in its opposite form, it
never disappears And from this it might be inferred that the cyclicity of our partly [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]