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CG Jung, Man and His Symbols
Carl Jung's long and influential career in twentieth century psychology would culminate in his last major work, Man and His Symbols, which was written in 1961, the last year of his life, in which the duties of expounding Jung's philosophy devolved upon some of the first Jungians, including the author of the second chapter in Man and His Symbols, Joseph L. Henderson. But an examination of Henderson's contribution to the volume -- "Ancient Myths and Modern Man" -- is still a revealing way to explore Jungian thought.
A little historical context is necessary before approaching Man and His Symbols -- we need to realize that Jung first came to prominence as a follower of the Austrian medical doctor, and founder of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud. Freud placed a heavy emphasis on the unconscious motivations that came to play in daily life, but which could be observed in such...
Jung began as a Freudian but later distanced himself from Freud's specific doctrine: instead what he came away with was the notion that human thought and creativity participated in a "collective unconscious," in which certain recurrent symbolic phenomena could be read as a kind of allegorical vocabulary of human psychology. For Jung, an archaic Indian mandala could express very similar structural and psychological content to a contemporary American sighting of a "flying saucer." Henderson defines the "collective unconscious" on page 98 as "the part of the psyche which retains and transmits the common psychological inheritance of mankind." The symbols are both "ancient" but also so "unfamiliar to modern man that he cannot directly understand or assimilate them."
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