{"product_id":"psychology-of-the-unconscious","title":"Psychology of the Unconscious","description":"\u003ctable align=\"center\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"2\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\"\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd class=\"productDetailSmallElements\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eMarc Notes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tOriginally published: New York: Moffat, Yard, and Co., 1916, in series: Library of modern thought.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAUTHOR'S NOTE \n\u003cbr\u003ePART I \n\u003cbr\u003eINTRODUCTION \n\u003cbr\u003e Relation of the Incest Phantasy to the Oedipus Legend \n\u003cbr\u003e Moral revulsion over such a discovery \n\u003cbr\u003e The unity of the antique and modern psychology \n\u003cbr\u003e Followers of Freud in this field \n\u003cbr\u003e The need of analyzing historical material in relation to individual analysis \n\u003cbr\u003eI. CONCERNING THE TWO KINDS OF THINKING \n\u003cbr\u003e Antiquity of the belief in dreams \n\u003cbr\u003e \"Dream-meanings psychological, not literal\" \n\u003cbr\u003e They concern wish-fulfilments \n\u003cbr\u003e A typical dream: the sexual assault \n\u003cbr\u003e What is symbolic in our everyday thinking? \n\u003cbr\u003e \"One kind of thinking: intensive and deliberate, or directed\" \n\u003cbr\u003e Directed thinking and thinking in words \n\u003cbr\u003e Origin of speech in primitive nature sounds \n\u003cbr\u003e The evolution of speech \n\u003cbr\u003e Directed thinking a modern acquisition \n\u003cbr\u003e \"Thinking, not directed, a thinking in images: akin to dreaming\" \n\u003cbr\u003e Two kinds of thinking: directed and dream or phantasy thinking \n\u003cbr\u003e Science an expression of directed thinking \n\u003cbr\u003e The discipline of scholasticism as a forerunner \n\u003cbr\u003e Antique spirit created not science but mythology \n\u003cbr\u003e Their world of subjective phantasies similar to that we find in the childmind of to-day; or in the savage \n\u003cbr\u003e The dream shows a similar type \n\u003cbr\u003e Infantile thinking and dreams a re-echo of the prehistoric and the ancient \n\u003cbr\u003e The myths a mass-dream of the people: the dream the myth of the individual \n\u003cbr\u003e Phantastic thinking concerns wishes \n\u003cbr\u003e \"Typical cases, showing kinship with ancient myths\" \n\u003cbr\u003e Psychology of man changes but slowly \n\u003cbr\u003e Phantastic thinking tells us of mythical or other material of undeveloped and no longer recognized wish tendencies in the soul \n\u003cbr\u003e The sexual base \n\u003cbr\u003e \"The wish, because of its disturbing nature, expressed not directly, but symbolically\" \n\u003cbr\u003eII. THE MILLER PHANTASIES \n\u003cbr\u003e Miss Miller's unusual suggestibility \n\u003cbr\u003e Identifying herself with others \n\u003cbr\u003e Examples of her autosuggestibility and suggestive effect \n\u003cbr\u003e \"Not striking in themselves, but from analytic viewpoint they afford a glance into the soul of the writer\" \n\u003cbr\u003e Her phantasies really tell of the history of her love \n\u003cbr\u003eIII. THE HYMN OF CREATION \n\u003cbr\u003e Miss Miller's description of a sea-journey \n\u003cbr\u003e \"Really a description of \"introversion\" \n\u003cbr\u003e A retreat from reality into herself \n\u003cbr\u003e The return to the real world with erotic impression of officer singing in the night-watch \n\u003cbr\u003e The undervaluing of such erotic impressions \n\u003cbr\u003e Their often deep effect \n\u003cbr\u003e \"The succeeding dream, and poem\" \n\u003cbr\u003e The denied erotic impression usurps an earlier transference: it expresses itself through the Father-Imago \n\u003cbr\u003e Analysis of the poem \n\u003cbr\u003e \"Relation to Cyrano, Milton and Job\" \n\u003cbr\u003e The attempt to escape the problem by a religious and ethical pose \n\u003cbr\u003e Contrast with real religion \n\u003cbr\u003e \"Escape from erotic by transference: \"To a God or Christ\" \n\u003cbr\u003e \"This made effective by mutual transference: \"Love one another\" \n\u003cbr\u003e \"The erotic spiritualized, however\" \n\u003cbr\u003e The inner conflict kept conscious by this method \n\u003cbr\u003e \"The modern, however, represses the conflict and so becomes neurotic\" \n\u003cbr\u003e The function of Christianity \n\u003cbr\u003e Its biological purpose fulfilled \n\u003cbr\u003e Its forms of thought and wisdom still available \n\u003cbr\u003eIV. THE SONG OF THE MONTH \n\u003cbr\u003e The double rôle of Faust: creator and destroyer \n\u003cbr\u003e \"I came not to send peace, but a sword\" \n\u003cbr\u003e The modern problem of choice between Scylla of world-renunciation and Charybdis of world-acceptance \n\u003cbr\u003e \"The ethical pose of The Hymn of Creation having failed, the unconscious projects a new attempt in the Moth-Song\" \n\u003cbr\u003e \"The choice, as in Faust\" \n\u003cbr\u003e The longing for the sun (or God) the same as that for the ship's officer \n\u003cbr\u003e \"Not the object, however: the longing is important\" \n\u003cbr\u003e God is our own longing to which we pay divine honors \n\u003cbr\u003e \"The failure to replace by a real compensation the libido-object which is surrendered, produces regression to an earlier and discarded object\" \n\u003cbr\u003e A return to the infantile \n\u003cbr\u003e The use of the parent image \n\u003cbr\u003e \"It becomes synonymous with god, sun, fire\" \n\u003cbr\u003e Sun and snake \n\u003cbr\u003e Symbols of the libido gathered into the sun-symbol \n\u003cbr\u003e The tendency toward unity and toward multiplicity \n\u003cbr\u003e One God with many attributes: or many gods that are attributes of one \n\u003cbr\u003e Phallus and sun \n\u003cbr\u003e \"The sun-hero, the well-beloved\" \n\u003cbr\u003e Christ as sun-god \n\u003cbr\u003e \"Moth and sun\" then brings us to historic depths of the soul\" \n\u003cbr\u003e The sun-hero creative and destructive \n\u003cbr\u003e Hence: Moth and Flame: burning one's wings \n\u003cbr\u003e The destructiveness of being fruitful \n\u003cbr\u003e \"Wherefore the neurotic withdraws from the conflict, committing a sort of self-murder\" \n\u003cbr\u003e Comparison with Byron's Heaven and Earth \n\u003cbr\u003ePART II \n\u003cbr\u003eI. ASPECTS OF THE LIBIDO \n\u003cbr\u003e A backward glance \n\u003cbr\u003e The sun the natural god \n\u003cbr\u003e Comparison with libido \n\u003cbr\u003e \"Libido, \"sun-energy\" \n\u003cbr\u003e The sun-image as seen by the mystic in introversion \n\u003cbr\u003e The phallic symbol of the libido \n\u003cbr\u003e Faust's key \n\u003cbr\u003e Mythical heroes with phallic attributes \n\u003cbr\u003e These heroes personifications of the human libido and its typical fates \n\u003cbr\u003e \"A definition of the word \"libido\" \n\u003cbr\u003e Its etymological context \n\u003cbr\u003eII. THE CONCEPTION AND THE GENETIC THEORY OF LIBIDO \n\u003cbr\u003e A widening of the conception of libido \n\u003cbr\u003e New light from the study of paranoia \n\u003cbr\u003e The impossibility of restricting the conception of libido to the sexual \n\u003cbr\u003e A genetic definition \n\u003cbr\u003e The function of reality only partly sexual \n\u003cbr\u003e \"Yet this, and other functions, originally derivations from procreative impulse\" \n\u003cbr\u003e The process of transformation \n\u003cbr\u003e \"Libido, and the conception of will in general\" \n\u003cbr\u003e Examples in mythology \n\u003cbr\u003e The stages of the libido: its desexualized derivatives and differentiations \n\u003cbr\u003e Sublimation vs. repression \n\u003cbr\u003e Splittings off of the primal libido \n\u003cbr\u003e Application of genetic theory of libido to introversion psychoses \n\u003cbr\u003e Replacing reality by archaic surrogates \n\u003cbr\u003e Desexualizing libido by means of phantastic analogy formations \n\u003cbr\u003e Possibly human consciousness brought to present state in this manner \n\u003cbr\u003e \"The importance of the little phrase: \"Even as\" \n\u003cbr\u003eIII. THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE LIBIDO. A POSSIBLE SOURCE OF PRIMITIVE HUMAN DISCOVERIES \n\u003cbr\u003e An example of transition of the libido \n\u003cbr\u003e Act of boring with forefinger: an infantile presexual activity \n\u003cbr\u003e Similar activities in patient's early childhood \n\u003cbr\u003e Outcome in dementia præcox \n\u003cbr\u003e Its phantasies related to mythological products: a reproduction of the creations of a \n\u003cbr\u003e The psychological compulsion for such transitions of the libido based on an original division of the will \n\u003cbr\u003e Regression to incestuous \n\u003cbr\u003e Prohibition here sends incestuous component of libido back to pre-sexual \n\u003cbr\u003e Character of its application here \n\u003cbr\u003e The substitution of Mother-Earth for the parent \n\u003cbr\u003e Also of infantile boring \n\u003cbr\u003e Leading then to discovery of fire \n\u003cbr\u003e An example in Hindoo literature \n\u003cbr\u003e The sexual significance of the mouth \n\u003cbr\u003e Its other function: the mating call \n\u003cbr\u003e The regression which produced fire through boring also elaborated the mating call \n\u003cbr\u003e The beginnings of speech \n\u003cbr\u003e Example from the Hindoo \n\u003cbr\u003e Speech and fire the first fruits of transformation or libido \n\u003cbr\u003e \"The fire-preparation regarded as forbidden, as robbery\" \n\u003cbr\u003e The forbidden thing onanism \n\u003cbr\u003e Onanism a cheating of sexuality of its purpose \n\u003cbr\u003e The ceremonial fire-production a substitute for the possibility of onanistic regression \n\u003cbr\u003e Thus a transformation of libido ensues \n\u003cbr\u003eIV. THE UNCONSCIOUS ORIGIN OF THE HERO \n\u003cbr\u003e The cause of introversion \n\u003cbr\u003e The forward and backward flow of the libido \n\u003cbr\u003e The abnormal third \n\u003cbr\u003e The conflict rooted in the incest problem \n\u003cbr\u003e \"The \"terrible mother\" \n\u003cbr\u003e Miss Miller's introversion \n\u003cbr\u003e An internal conflict \n\u003cbr\u003e Its product of hypnagogic vision and poem \n\u003cbr\u003e The uniformity of the unconscious in all men \n\u003cbr\u003e The unconscious the object of a true psychology \n\u003cbr\u003e The individual tendency with its production of the hero cult \n\u003cbr\u003e The love for the hero or god a love for the unconscious \n\u003cbr\u003e A turning back to the mother of humanity \n\u003cbr\u003e Such regressions act favorably within limits \n\u003cbr\u003e Miss Miller's mention of the Sphinx \n\u003cbr\u003e Theriomorphic representations of the libido \n\u003cbr\u003e Their tendency to represent father and mother \n\u003cbr\u003e The sphinx represents the fear of the mother \n\u003cbr\u003e Miss Miller's mention of the Aztec \n\u003cbr\u003e Analysis of this figure \n\u003cbr\u003e The significance of the hand symbolically \n\u003cbr\u003e The Aztec a substitute for the Sphinx \n\u003cbr\u003e The name Chi-wan-to-pel \n\u003cbr\u003e The connection of the anal region with veneration \n\u003cbr\u003e \"Chiwantopel and Ahasver, the Wandering Jew\" \n\u003cbr\u003e The parallel with Chidher \n\u003cbr\u003e Heroes generating themselves through their own mothers \n\u003cbr\u003e Analogy with the Sun \n\u003cbr\u003e \"Setting and rising sun: Mithra and Helios, Christ and Peter, Dhulqarnein and Chidher\" \n\u003cbr\u003e The fish symbol \n\u003cbr\u003e The two Dadophores: the two thieves \n\u003cbr\u003e The mortal and immortal parts of man \n\u003cbr\u003e The Trinity taken from phallic symbolism \n\u003cbr\u003e Comparison of libido with phallus \n\u003cbr\u003e Analysis of libido symbolism always leads back to the mother incest \n\u003cbr\u003e The hero myth the myth of our own suffering unconscious \n\u003cbr\u003e Faust \n\u003cbr\u003eV. SYMBOLISM OF THE MOTHER AND OF REBIRTH \n\u003cbr\u003e The crowd as symbol of mystery \n\u003cbr\u003e The city as symbol of the mother \n\u003cbr\u003e \"The motive of continuous \"union\" \n\u003cbr\u003e The typical journey of the sun-hero \n\u003cbr\u003e Examples \n\u003cbr\u003e A longing for rebirth through the mother \n\u003cbr\u003e \"The compulsion to symbolize the mother as City, Sea, Source, etc.\" \n\u003cbr\u003e The city as terrible mother and as holy mother \n\u003cbr\u003e The relation of the water-motive to rebirth \n\u003cbr\u003e Of the tree-motive \n\u003cbr\u003e Tree of life a mother-image \n\u003cbr\u003e The bisexual character of trees \n\u003cbr\u003e \"Such symbols to be understood psychologically, not anatomically\" \n\u003cbr\u003e \"The incestuous desire aims at becoming a child again, not at incest\" \n\u003cbr\u003e It evades incest by creating myths of symbolic rebirth \n\u003cbr\u003e The libido spiritualized through this use of symbols \n\u003cbr\u003e To be born of the spirit \n\u003cbr\u003e This compulsion toward symbolism brings a release of forces bound up in incest \n\u003cbr\u003e This process in Christianity \n\u003cbr\u003e Christianity with its repression of the manifest sexual the negative of the ancient sexual cult \n\u003cbr\u003e The unconscious transformation of the incest wish into religious exercise does not meet the modern need \n\u003cbr\u003e \"A conscious method necessary, involving moral autonomy\" \n\u003cbr\u003e Replacing belief by understanding \n\u003cbr\u003e The history of the symbolism of trees \n\u003cbr\u003e The rise of the idea of the terrible mother a mask of the incest wish \n\u003cbr\u003e The myth of Osiris \n\u003cbr\u003e Related examples \n\u003cbr\u003e \"The motive of \"devouring\" \n\u003cbr\u003e The Cross of Christ: tree of death and tree of life \n\u003cbr\u003e Lilith: the devouring mother \n\u003cbr\u003e The Lamias \n\u003cbr\u003e The conquering of the mother \n\u003cbr\u003e Snake and dragon: the resistance against incest \n\u003cbr\u003e The father represents the active repulse of the incest with of the son \n\u003cbr\u003e He frequently becomes the monster to be overcome by the hero \n\u003cbr\u003e The Mithraic sacrificing of the incest wish an overcoming of the mother \n\u003cbr\u003e A replacing of archaic overpowering by sacrifice of the wish \n\u003cbr\u003e The crucified Christ an expression of this renunciation \n\u003cbr\u003e Other cross sacrifices \n\u003cbr\u003e \"Cross symbol possesses significance of \"union\" \n\u003cbr\u003e Child in mother's womb: or man and mother in union \n\u003cbr\u003e Conception of the soul a derivative of mother imago \n\u003cbr\u003e The power of incest prohibition created the self-conscious individual \n\u003cbr\u003e It was the coercion to domestication \n\u003cbr\u003e The further visions of Miss Miller \n\u003cbr\u003eVI. THE BATTLE FOR DELIVERANCE FROM THE MOTHER \n\u003cbr\u003e The appearance of the hero Chiwantopel on horseback \n\u003cbr\u003e Hero and horse equivalent of humanity and its repressed libido \n\u003cbr\u003e \"Horse a libido symbol, partly phallic, partly maternal, like the tree\" \n\u003cbr\u003e It represents the libido repressed through the incest prohibition \n\u003cbr\u003e The scene of Chiwantopel and the Indian \n\u003cbr\u003e Recalling Cassius and Brutus: also delirium of Cyrano \n\u003cbr\u003e Identification of Cassius with his mother \n\u003cbr\u003e His infantile disposition \n\u003cbr\u003e Miss Miller's hero also infantile \n\u003cbr\u003e Her visions arise from an infantile mother transference \n\u003cbr\u003e Her hero to die from an arrow wound \n\u003cbr\u003e The symbolism of the arrow \n\u003cbr\u003e The onslaught of unconscious desires \n\u003cbr\u003e The deadly arrows strike the hero from within \n\u003cbr\u003e It means the state of introversion \n\u003cbr\u003e A sinking back into the world of the child \n\u003cbr\u003e The danger of this regression \n\u003cbr\u003e It may mean annihilation or new life \n\u003cbr\u003e Examples of introversion \n\u003cbr\u003e The clash between the retrogressive tendency in the individual unconscious and the conscious forward striving \n\u003cbr\u003e Willed introversion \n\u003cbr\u003e The unfulfilled sacrifice in the Miller phantasy means an attempt to renounce the mother: the conquest of a new life through the death of the old \n\u003cbr\u003e \"Minnehaha, t\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher Marketing\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn this, his most famous and influential work, Carl Jung made a dramatic break from the psychoanalytic tradition established by his mentor, Sigmund Freud. Rather than focusing on psychopathology and its symptoms, the Swiss psychiatrist studied dreams, mythology, and literature to define the universal patterns of the psyche.\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003ePsychology of the Unconscious\u003c\/i\u003e, Jung seeks a symbolic meaning and purpose behind a given set of symptoms, placing them within the larger context of the psyche. The 1912 text examines the fantasies of a patient whose poetic and vivid mental images helped Jung redefine libido as psychic energy, arising from the unconscious and manifesting itself consciously in symbolic form. Jung's commentary on his patient's fantasies offers a complex study of symbolic psychiatry and foreshadows his development of the theory of collective unconscious and its constituents, the archetypes.\u003cbr\u003eThe author's role in the development of analytical psychology, a therapeutic process that promotes creativity and psychological development, makes this landmark in psychoanalytic methodology required reading for students and others interested in the practice and process of psychology.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jung, C G\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Dover Publications\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePub Date:\u003c\/b\u003e 2003-01-27\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC:\u003c\/b\u003e Psychology \/ Psychotherapy \/ Jungian\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSubjects:\u003c\/b\u003e Psychoanalysis|Subconsciousness|Sex (Psychology)|Mother and child|Symbolism (Psychology)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.65 lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780486424996\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eASIN:\u003c\/b\u003e -\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSKU:\u003c\/b\u003e SP-9780486424996\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dover Publications","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52372247806233,"sku":"SP-9780486424996","price":37.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0913\/0380\/5209\/files\/9780486424996_spiral.png?v=1778439976","url":"https:\/\/westbindery.com\/products\/psychology-of-the-unconscious","provider":"West Bindery","version":"1.0","type":"link"}