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Note 61 + + + + +THE PSYCHOLOGY OF JUNG. + + + + +I. + +THE PSYCHOLOGY OF THE FUTURE. + + +The origin of the new psychology, with its technic universally known as +psycho-analysis, lies in the effort which man has always made to cure +those ills “not of the body.” When we speak of the ills of the “soul,” +we do not, however, mean that the mind is not a part of the body. We +merely mean that there is a difference, for instance, between the +illness that might arise from receiving bad news, and that which was +caused, say, by being knocked down by a motor car. The first we call a +mental ill, a spiritual malady, the second a physical. + +The old shaman of the savage tribe did not only attempt to cure +gangrene and malaria and sore throat; he also treated people who were +“possessed by demons” or had “lost their souls”; he treated people who +had lost hope, who were despairing, who wanted a charm to conquer the +object of love or hate, who desired success, who heard voices, saw +visions and were afraid to live. + +From the beginning, therefore, man has attempted to bring a healing to +the mind. Every religion has been such an attempt. + +The trouble with this, however, from our modern standpoint, is that a +religion demands faith, not only in the natural, but the supernatural; +and not only, let it be added, in the supernatural, but a very definite +and dogmatic supernatural, some set of stories and brand of divinities. +There are Gods, Devils and ghosts to which we must submit. But modern +science, which has steadfastly discredited mythology and sought to +explain life and its phenomena by natural causes, or laws of nature, +has seriously undermined the old religions, and we see them beginning +to topple in all places of the earth. + +However, the science of medicine, which sought to discover the causes +of sickness, reached a limit beyond which it could not pass. If there +is no medicine for a broken heart, there is also none for a man with a +fixed idea or one with a sense of utter inferiority. The insane cannot +be cured by drugs or by operations, except in those rare curable cases +which have an indubitable physical origin. The thousands creeping and +stumbling around the world, victims of neurosis, cannot be reached by +serums or diets. + +It was therefore necessary for medicine to go beyond itself, to invade +the wide and dark realm of religion and preempt the creeds, by applying +the technic of science to what had hitherto been understood darkly +through intuition, guess-work and “revelation.” + +It is not my intention to give a history of the origin and rise of +psycho-analysis. That, in itself, is a book. It is merely necessary +to say that the first genius in this field was Sigmund Freud, that +Freud made the first great discoveries, that he traced the first chart +of the unconscious mind, and that he originated the first technic of +psycho-analysis. + +If Freud, however, was the pioneer, it remained for two of his pupils +to carry the work forward to the point where it has become one of the +vital contributions to the race. The work of Adler, the first of these, +came as a revolt against Freud and gave rise to a rival theory. The +work of Jung, however, not only brought a synthesis of the work of +Adler and Freud, but went beyond both. It is for this reason, then, +that I call his work “the psychology of the future.” + +In order to come to a clear understanding of Jung, it will be +necessary first to summarize the theories of both Freud and Adler. We +can then see how Jung, accepting both, has transcended both, and laid +out the first tracings of a complete psychology. + + + + +II. + +THE SEXUAL THEORY. + + +Freud sees life as a great and never-ending conflict between +civilization, or organized society, and the individual. The individual +is born with certain instincts, desires, wishes. Many of these are +in conflict with the law and moral code of society. Hence, they are +suppressed. + +This suppression works, however, in a curious way. Not only are the +unlawful and “sinful” impulses shut out of the mind; they are also +forgotten. And because they are forgotten, we actually have the +spectacle of pious men and women who can solemnly swear that they are +quite free of murderous, lustful, lecherous, dangerous thoughts and +wishes; that they are “good” people; that they have nothing in common +with the criminal and the debased. + +As a matter of fact, however, no instinct, no function in man can be +abolished by cutting it off from consciousness. It is merely repressed, +and forms what Dr. Jung later denoted as a _complex_; that is to say, a +group of ideas, emotions, wishes that all go together and become a sort +of mental family living off by itself, in exile. + +It is, in reality, a part of consciousness of which we are +unconscious: a part of the mind shut out by the barrier of our will and +our forgetfulness. And since there are many things that we repress, +a goodly area of the mind is so cut off. Hence, all that part of the +mind which is repressed, and of whose existence we are not aware, Freud +calls _the unconscious mind_. + +But since the unconscious is living, not dead; since every impulse in +man seeks constantly for expression; the unconscious is continually +active, like a volcano. Only, instead of sending up its fire and lava +and steam in their native state, it is sending them up in a camouflaged +form. The bottled up energy seeking ever an outlet, loads itself into +some part of the body, and becomes a symptom. It may appear as a +paralysis of some muscle, as deafness or blindness, heart trouble or +stomach trouble, etc. Naturally, these symptoms are not organic; it is +not a real blindness, a real paralysis. Which explains why there can +be miracles when believers touch saint’s bones or repeat the dogmas of +the Christian Scientists. The reason is, that being mental in origin, +these symptoms can also be cured in a mental way. But since faith +healing does not probe to the secret source of the symptom, which is +in the unconscious, such healing is usually followed by the outbreak +of another symptom, in a different place, perhaps, and of a different +nature. + +However, the repressed complex does not only express itself in bodily +symptoms. It may appear in the conscious mind. But since the conscious +mind resists the invasion, it appears in a masked form. It may become +apparent as a fixed idea, for instance, the idea that one must go to +some street corner and preach the Gospel, an idea which, in spite of +its absurdity and irrationality, the patient cannot dislodge, and which +is therefore fixed. Or it may appear as a fear, a fear of dogs, or of +the dark, of closed places, going outdoors, etc. + +Nor is this all. Where there is a marked repression of a large part of +oneself, the repressed material may become what is called a secondary +personality, and every so often preempt the conscious mind, so that +at one time the personality may be timid, pious, good, and at another +bold, wicked and evil. It is, in a way, the story of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. +Hyde. + +Finally, the unconscious appears in consciousness in the form of +dreams. It is really this great discovery which led to the development +of the technic of psycho-analysis, and opened up the path which has led +to all the other discoveries. + +A dream takes place when we are asleep; that is to say, when the +conscious mind is completely relaxed, when all the bars are let down. +What more natural than that the repressed portion of the mind may now +flare up, just as the stars become visible when the sun is withdrawn +from the sky? But dreams usually have something absurd about them. We +walk in seven league boots, we cut off a hand and sew it on again, +animals talk; we are in the land of make-believe and of the fairies and +the bad spirits. + +Why does the unconscious speak such a fantastic language? Why doesn’t +it express itself in simple English? According to Freud, this is +because the conscious mind has refused to face the evil which it +has repressed, and the unconscious therefore ever seeks a masked or +camouflaged expression, whether in the form of a physical symptom, a +fixed idea, a phobia, or a dream. + +Dreams, in short, are symbolic. Everything in a dream stands for +something else. But these symbols are not haphazard; what they stand +for are definitely expressed by the symbol. It is not haphazard for +instance that a dove has always symbolized the holy spirit, or that a +spear has stood for the masculine organ, or that a vessel has stood for +the womb. There is a certain likeness between symbol and fact. + +It is nothing new to invest dreams with meaning. The human race has +always done so. Man has always intuitively known that these strange +manifestations of the night held a hidden meaning for him, a meaning +that must be searched out by interpretation and analysis. So we +read in the Bible of Joseph interpreting the dreams of Pharaoh; in +Euripides’ play, Iphigenia, the action begins with a dream of the +heroine, which she herself interprets, though somewhat mistakenly. So +too we have the well-authenticated dream of Lincoln (ten days before +he was assassinated) that he heard a noise of lamentation and sobbing +downstairs in the White House and took a candle and went down. Around a +catafalque moved a crowd of weeping people. He asked who was dead, and +was informed that it was the President, who had been killed. + +Such dreams are of the prophetic order, and will be dealt with later +on. The last dream, also, was straightforward. It was not symbolic. But +such dreams are outside the usual run; they are the exceptions to the +rule. + +The way then to find out the meaning of a dream is to treat the images +in it as symbols and try to discover what the symbols stand for. And +the quickest way to do this is to ask the dreamer himself. + +You dream, for instance, to use a simple illustration, that you are +involved in a fight between a cat and a dog. Well, what do you think of +cats and dogs? What are your associations? + +You begin to tell all the thoughts that come into your mind when you +think of these two animals. You may drag in personal stories of a pet +cat you once had, of a dog it fought with, etc. When all you have said +is boiled down it may amount to this: that cats and dogs appear to be +opposites, that cats are aloof, “selfish,” withdrawn, asking much and +giving little, whereas dogs are loving, affectionate, very sociable, +and may even give their lives for their masters. Symbolically then, the +cat stands for the ego-impulses, the dog for the social impulses. It +is natural that they should fight each other every so often; there are +times when we are in great conflict between our wish to serve others +and our desire to gratify or satisfy ourselves. + +What Freud discovered was that the repression came to light through +the dream; that the dream material, if analyzed, showed exactly why +the patient was ill, why he had his phobia or his physical symptom. +For instance, the man might have a strain of sexual perversion in him. +He himself is not aware of it. But the dream immediately brings it to +light and he is forced to recognize it. + +Naturally it is difficult to get a patient to accept the repressed +material. If he repressed it because of a great moral revulsion, he can +only be led by a process of re-education to accept it. When he first +comes for treatment, therefore, he merely tells the analyst all that +he remembers about his past, his family and personal history, etc. +Gradually he acquires confidence in the analyst. This unburdening is +like a confession. The analyst hears things that the patient has never +before mentioned to anyone else. The analyst, because of his knowledge +of psychology, also shows an understanding of the patient that quite +startles the latter. The analyst, in short, becomes more than a father +to him, more than a mother. There is a feeling of gratitude, of trust, +which approaches the border of love. This feeling, this attitude, +is called the _transference_. The patient has transferred himself, +his burden, to the analyst. And no cure can take place until this is +achieved. + +For when the transference is made, the patient is now ready to go +along with the analyst in his re-education. He gains a new standpoint. +He discovers that the ugly and evil things which he suppressed are not +his personal property, his private depravity, but are public property, +that every one who is a human being has the same impulses, the same +shameful lusts, the same wicked wishes; and that there can be no +genuine health until one allows these impulses in consciousness and +accepts them in their nakedest aspect. + +The patient then is ready to face squarely and truthfully the +divulgences of his dreams. + +And what is the cure? Sometimes, happily, it is a simple matter. The +man who has suppressed his sexuality altogether, for instance, may now +marry and gain a good direct expression for his need. But what of those +who find strong perverted wishes, what shall we do with them? + +At this point Freud erects the theory of _sublimation_. It is not a new +theory. The youth in college is admonished to go into athletics that +he may channel off and use up the energy which otherwise would provide +him with a sexual problem. It is the substitution of a “higher” thing +for a “lower.” Only, of course, the higher thing must stand in some +natural relation to the lower, that the instinctive craving may have +some genuine satisfaction. + +The classic example is that of surgery. A man is sadistic. That is, +he desires to practice cruelty on the object of his love. Turn this +upside-down from something destructive to something creative, and you +let him dig his knife into the human body, but now it is to help and +heal another, not to hurt him. Hence, the surgeon is sublimating his +sadistic tendencies. + +Another example, according to Freud, is the artist. His wicked and +criminal impulses, we will say, would indicate a long list of murders +if he lived them out. He does not live them out, he writes them out. He +becomes known as a writer of crime and detective stories, and in this +form he releases his evil energy and spends it utterly. + +Or take the actor. As a child he wanted constantly to exhibit himself, +to go naked before others. This strong strain of exhibitionism can be +satisfied finally by acting, by showing himself off before audiences. + +Hence, the Freudian cure for those impulses we cannot live, is, first, +to recognize and accept them, and secondly, to sublimate them. + +The Freudian psychology, however, does not rest at this point. It has a +theory which underlies all the others; it is the theory connected with +the Oedipus complex. + +Oedipus was the man, celebrated in Greek drama, who, by a fluke of +fate, married his own mother, had children by her, and later had to +expiate his crime by blinding himself and wandering poor and helpless +about the world. For his crime is the one crime which mankind has +usually found absolutely taboo. In practically all the savage tribes, +and in every civilized code, incest, or intermarriage between child and +parent, brother and sister, has been strictly forbidden. + +Why is this so? Freud believes that there is a natural sexual +attraction within the family group itself, that the child begins its +sexual life very early, that the boy gains satisfactions through his +mother’s caresses; and that hence the whole beginnings of sexuality +are wrapped up in the incestuous wish. Naturally, however, for the son +there is a great rival. It is his father. His father would fight him +off just as he would any other male rival. This is one of the reasons +for the universal taboo. + +But if the origins and beginnings of sexuality are entwined in the +incestuous wish, and incest is taboo, we have an immediate cause of +trouble in human nature. We are all bound to repress. And indeed if we +look upon man, we see that he is afflicted with much sickness, that he +is born to trouble as the sparks fly upward. + +If, however, this is the nuclear complex, this Oedipus complex, how +can we account for the other sexual difficulties, the perversions? +They originate, according to Freud, in the Oedipus complex itself. The +child’s first act is suckling, this involves the mouth; he then learns +to suck his finger when he cannot get at the nipple, this involves +mouth and hand; he then begins to use his hand rubbing himself and this +leads to rubbing the sexual organ (auto-erotism); he now takes pleasure +in his own body and in bodies like his own (homosexual interest), and +finally he becomes interested in bodies unlike his own (normal sexual +wish). He may find, however, that he cannot cross the last bridge and +get to normal sexuality. The repressed incest wish stands in the way +and makes him fear the woman who would, unconsciously, be used as a +substitute for the mother. Hence, he remains fixed at some infantile +stage; mouth-erotism, auto-erotism, homosexuality, etc. Often in +analysis, when he discovers this, according to Freud, he can learn +to renounce the infantile fixation, or perversion, and learn to take +pleasure in normal sexuality. + +Such, in brief, and with, alas, much omitted, is an outline of the +Freudian theory. It is a sexual theory. The psychological troubles +of mankind, with all their symptoms, either physical or mental, are +traced back to a disturbance in sexuality, to taboos which bring the +individual into conflict with society and so cause these unnatural +repressions. Freud, however, does not use the word sexuality in a +narrow sense; he makes it synonymous with love-life, though the purely +sexual element is, on close examination, always present. + +However, recently, Freud, now an old man, has advanced a new theory to +supplement the sexual theory. He believes, though he is very cautious +in his statement, that beside the sexual impulse, the will-to-live, to +create and procreate, there is an opposite impulse, a will-to-death, a +wish to have done. In this, he pays an unconscious tribute to some of +the theories of Jung, which will be discussed later on. + + + + +III. + +WILL-TO-POWER. + + +Alfred Adler was a pupil of Freud. In the course of his psycho-analytic +practice he stumbled across a discovery which led to a break with Freud +and the enunciation of a new theory. In contradistinction to the sexual +theory it may be called the power-theory. + +What Adler noticed in every neurotic was a marked feeling of +inferiority, a feeling, as he put it, of being _under_, and a +consequent incessant striving to be _over_ or on top. To use a simple, +concrete case: If a man felt inferior to the woman he loved, and this +was a symptom of inferiority he had always had toward the women he +loved, he would strive by every means to put the woman down and himself +up. He might put her down by economic pressure, by intellectual attack; +or he might put her down in the sexual way, for instance through +cruelty (sadism). + +In the latter case, Freud would say that the problem was sexual. +But Adler would say, what the man is striving for is not sexual +satisfaction, but power. If he could put the woman down through +money-pressure, that would satisfy him, or if he could put her down +sexually, that would be satisfactory. What he was seeking was mastery. + +Take the well-known case of the Don Juan who has one love-affair +after another, who wins a woman only to tire of her and pass on to the +next. Such men will admit, as a rule, that the greatest pleasure is in +conquest, and that when a woman has been conquered she is no longer +interesting. They look upon love-affairs as a series of battles, and +the aim is not love or sexuality, so much as triumph. + +What becomes then of the Oedipus complex, the incestuous longing of +the son for the mother? According to Adler this, too, is a problem of +power. The father is the head of the house, the master, the king in the +realm of the family, and possesses the mother. The son is under the +father, but would depose this king and take his place. In short, he +would be the head and possess the mother. But actually, what the child +is seeking, is not really to possess the mother, but to have power in +the manner of his father. + +The cause, then, of mental disorders and spiritual maladies, Adler +traces to an excessive feeling of inferiority which leads to a marked +will-to-power. But whence arises this feeling of inferiority? Adler at +this point is sure that the origin is to be sought not in something +psychic but in something physical. His theory is that the feeling of +inferiority is due to some _actual organic inferiority_. + +In other words, he believes that a child who has a club foot, like +Byron, or one subject to epileptic fits, like Dostoyevski, or one with +an impediment which causes stammering, like Demosthenes, or one with +a chronic tendency to constipation like Lincoln (the cases of great +men could be multiplied endlessly), that such a child feels himself +inferior to normal children; he feels that there is something the +matter with him, that he has less chance of success, etc. This is the +feeling of inferiority, the feeling of being under. And the deeper this +feeling, the greater the reaction to it, the greater the striving to +change the position about, so that instead of being under his fellows +he is over them. Out of such defects, then, arise the great ambitions, +or as Adler puts it, the “guiding fiction.” By this he means a phantasy +of some great goal which the child dreams about and sets out to reach. + +A classical case is that of Demosthenes. Because he stammered, because +he was inferior in speech to other children, an ambition awoke not +merely to be able to talk in the normal manner, but something far +greater: namely, to be the greatest of orators, an ambition he actually +achieved. But suppose he could not have achieved such a victory, +suppose conditions had been such that it was impossible for him to +be an orator? Then his incessant striving would prove futile, the +feeling of inferiority would increase, and there would be a breakdown. +The breakdown would be a neurosis, and he would be ready for a +psycho-analyst. + +Why did Napoleon set out to conquer Europe? His inordinate +will-to-power could be traced back to a painful feeling of inferiority +in his youth, which showed itself in the military school, where he was +put to shame by his fellows. They, he must have felt, would become in +time great generals and leaders in the army; hence, he must be even +more than they, the general of generals. + +As to the feeling of inferiority itself, Adler denotes it as the +feeling of being _feminine_. Woman, he believes, has the psychology of +being under, man that of being over, as shown in the sexual act itself. +Besides, man is physically stronger than woman. Hence, if a man has an +organic inferiority, he feels that he is not a man, and hence, that he +is in some way feminine. All his striving therefore is to be masculine, +and indeed, super-masculine. This striving Adler calls _the masculine +protest_. One finds it in women also; a marked feeling of inferiority +in a woman leading her to strive to be like a man, and a refusal to +accept her own psychology. + +Such, in brief, is the Adler theory. It owes many things to Nietzsche, +who, in his “Thus Spake Zarathustra” teaches will-to-power as the +guiding principle of life, who relegates woman to a lesser, man to a +greater sphere, and who finds in the striving of the ego the dominant +impulse of life. + + + + +IV. + +THE BREAK BETWEEN FREUD AND JUNG. + + +At the time that Dr. Freud was making his discoveries in Vienna, Dr. +Carl Jung, a young psychiatrist, was conducting certain experiments +in Zurich, Switzerland. These were of a dry technical nature which +need not be given here, but they led to a tentative theory of an +unconscious mind. It was while he was engaged on these experiments that +Jung first read the work of Freud. He knew at once that he had found +his master and hastened to become Freud’s pupil and colleague. He did +more than that. At that period Freud was the laughing stock of Vienna, +and wherever his work penetrated. He was jeered and ridiculed for his +fantastic notions, and was suffering the bitter fate of all pioneers. +Jung was in a powerful position at Zurich, and at once proceeded to +enlarge and deepen the fight for Freud. He became the most powerful +exponent of the Freudian psychology, and helped to bring the new +knowledge and new technic into its first acceptance by the world. + +Freud looked upon Jung as upon a favorite son. They fought +shoulder-to-shoulder, the work spread, and they were invited to +this country to give lectures. In Switzerland, Austria, England and +America the psycho-analyst made his appearance, and the world of the +intelligentsia awoke with a shock to the sexual theory. Among the +cultured everywhere there was discussion of the Oedipus complex, the +repressions, the sexual perversions, the idea that much that we had +thought purely spiritual, like art and religion, were merely masks for +sexual complexes. The psycho-analytic movement, held firmly together by +two great men, was forging ahead. + +However, Jung, from his continued analysis of patients, and from his +own experiences, was beginning to form doubts in his own mind. There +was something, he began to think, inadequate in Freud’s theory. He +hardly dared, at this time, to make any formal criticism; but finally, +after a great conflict, he was moved, even inspired, to write his first +great book. This book is entitled “The Psychology of the Unconscious.” + +He has said of it that it was a voyage of discovery. He himself, when +he started it, hardly knew to what depths it would lead him, to what +conclusions it would force him. But when he was finished, he knew that +he could no longer withhold his own point of view and that this would +inevitably lead to a break with Freud. + +It proved to be so. Freud was shocked and appalled. He sent the +manuscript back with a letter in which their relationship was ended. He +said that Jung had betrayed the psycho-analytic movement, that he had +ventured out beyond the bounds of science, and that he was seeking to +destroy the greatest values in the new psychology. + +Of course such a break was inevitable, and in the end it proved +fortunate. It set Jung free. He could now go on, without hindrance, in +his great task, which led finally to the greatest contributions thus +far made. + +The break itself may be traced to a divergence between two theories of +the unconscious. As will be remembered, Freud’s theory would define the +unconscious as something which is produced after we are born, and when +the repressions begin. All that is anti-social, that flies in the face +of conventional morality and the law of the land, everything that is +taboo, gets walled off from the conscious mind, and is henceforth the +unconscious mind. The unconscious then is a storehouse of the evil, the +thwarted, the unconventional, the instinctive. + +Jung does not deny that a _part_ of the unconscious is exactly of this +nature. But in “The Psychology of the Unconscious” he proceeds to +prove, by a wealth of material and a sureness of analysis, that the +unconscious is something far deeper and greater than merely a personal +bag of discards. + +He finds in numerous typical dreams and phantasies of his patients +that they reproduce symbols and stories as old as the human race. He +shows that the human mind everywhere, among the most widely scattered +peoples, and in different ages, produces the same typical myths, the +same figures of deities and demons; and that the patient of today gives +forth, in analysis, a similar mythology; and very often something which +he, the patient, has been utterly ignorant of and which is beyond his +understanding. + +He finds further that man has always had what might be called a typical +psychological fate; that the story of man’s inner life and development +has always taken a certain form, embodied in the figure of the hero. +The hero, in the myth, is always he who goes forth to conquer greatly, +who overcomes dragons and supernatural powers, but who finally loses +his power, is subjugated and dies an inner death. But out of this death +he is reborn and appears with a new life, often magical, by which he +goes on to his greater achievements. + +Such a death and rebirth is pictured in the story of the crucifixion +of Jesus. It appears in a modern work, in “Jean-Christophe,” where +the hero suffers a spiritual disintegration and can no longer compose +music, but with the first breath of Spring, feels the new tides of life +pouring into him and rises to the greatest heights of his creative +power. Such, too, is doubtless the inner story of our greatest American +poet, Walt Whitman. When he was about 35, and after suffering some deep +personal reverse, he secluded himself on Long Island beside the sea for +some weeks, and had a spiritual experience which led to his awakening +as a poet and the beginning of “Leaves of Grass.” + +What is this typical myth? It is known as the sun-myth, for the savage +doubtless based it on the strange fact that the sun, after setting in +the west, rose again the following morning in the east. This sun-myth, +boiled down to its essentials, is somewhat as follows: The sun is the +hero. He is born of the mother, the sea, in the east. He rises in his +splendor and reaches the zenith. But now his strange descent begins, +and when he reaches the west, he must re-descend into the waters of the +sea, die again and re-enter the mother’s womb. Actually he is pictured +as being devoured by a sea monster. In the belly of this monster he +rides in the sea under the earth back toward the east. At first he lies +supine; but finally, plucking up courage he begins to battle with the +monster. Finally he kills him, and the body of the great fish floats to +shore, where the hero, the sun, steps out reborn, and rises again in +the east. + +This story, based on something seen in nature, is found to be typical +of man’s soul. And Jung discovered that wherever an analysis was +carried far enough, this typical myth appeared in various forms in +the dreams of the patient, and the patient went through an experience +analogous to the myth. + +What is this experience? A man has reached a high point of development +and achievements. There comes upon him now a sense of deadness and +futility, a period of disillusionment and turning away from the world, +the experience which is described in the beginning of Goethe’s “Faust.” +This inner death proceeds until he is lost in himself, until he is, +in the language of the myth, devoured by the monster; and now he goes +through a long period of inner suffering and groping until the time +comes when a new life awakens and he goes back to the world of men with +a greater energy, a new vision, and perhaps a new life-task. So, in the +beginning of Nietzsche’s “Thus Spake Zarathustra,” we see the hero step +forth after his years of preparation in the wilderness to bring his +message to the world of men. + +This then is the typical experience of those who carry their +development to any height. What is its meaning psychologically? + +There is no understanding of it, says Jung, unless we broaden the +conception of the unconscious. And with this he introduces his theory +of the _collective unconscious_. + +The human body is the product of millions of years of evolution, and in +it is written the history of life. It is not a sudden creation. If this +is true of the body, how can it be anything but true of the mind, which +is a function of the body? The mind, too, is a product of millions of +years of evolution, and just as the history of life is written in the +flesh, so too the history of man’s spirit, his adventure, is summed +up in the mind. In other words, the new born babe does not present a +mind like a blank sheet of paper on which his personal experience will +begin to write; he is born with the great inheritance of the race, the +collective unconscious, in which is stored the wisdom of the ages as +well as the great instincts, and what Jung calls “the residues of our +animal ancestry.” + +How do we know this? Because the mind of a man today, a man even +ignorant and unread, will, on certain occasions, produce the same +myths, the same supernatural figures, the same psychic phenomena as +those produced thousands of years ago, and the same in every part of +the earth among the most widely separated nations and races. + +In short, the unconscious contains typical _images_ and typical +_stories_. And whence did these arise? It is quite natural that the +presence in our own unconscious of a wisdom greater than ours and at +the same time of animal instincts sometimes overwhelming in their +destructiveness, should give the savage, for instance, a sense of the +nearness of supernatural powers of good and evil, of some supernatural +wisdom that helped him (in the form of revelation or inspiration) and +of some demonic lust or passion, which, if it swept over him, led +to the orgy, the murder or insanity. Hence, these experiences would +be pictured as the work of beings like those he knew, only greater. +Wisdom was a Great Mother or a Great Father, a God, in short; evil was +a Devil, a Demon, like a bad man, only greater and worse. And certain +experiences would be pictured in the form of monsters, great strange +animals, sometimes animals part human and part beast. + +Thus we see an explanation for the origin of the many religions on +earth, all of which have certain things in common. Some sensitive +man experienced his own unconscious in the form of dreams and +hallucinations. Moses for instance heard the voice of God and saw +the burning bush. Psychologically, this would mean that what Moses +thought was outside himself, came from within himself, came from the +unconscious and was, in the technical language, _projected_, the +vision of fire upon the bush, the voice into the air. He heard and saw +something out of his own depths. + +Every religion makes this projection. Heaven is up in the sky, hell +under the earth; the Gods are on high, the Devils below. It has +remained for modern psychology not only to locate these phenomena +as in the brain itself, but also to divest them of their miraculous +coating, and to explain them as something having a direct meaning in +the patient’s life. + +According to Jung, the collective unconscious is more or less dormant +in all of us, except under certain circumstances or after certain +experiences. The average man goes on unaware of his own demonic and +divine attributes. But in a lynching-bee or in battle the devil will +suddenly awake and transform him from something human into something +monstrous. On the other hand, the youth falling headlong in love, +the man who sustains the death of his loved one and similar great +experiences of life, will encounter the presence of ineffable wisdom +and power, so that he feels he is visited by something beyond the human. + +But the process of analysis also leads to the experience of the +collective unconscious. Psycho-analysis is self-discovery. One goes +deeper and deeper into oneself. One goes back on the track of the +years to one’s childhood. One exhausts in the process one’s personal +memories. One goes down, as it were, beyond the personal layers of the +unconscious, to the impersonal. At this point the manifestations of +the collective unconscious begin, and the dreams are now loaded with +mythological conceptions, and images of the supernatural. + +This deep entering into oneself Jung defines as _introversion_, a self +descent, and a means of development, a discipline not only in the +wisdom of all time, but in overcoming the undeveloped tendencies in +oneself. It is at this point that the hero is devoured by the monster, +the unconscious, and makes that voyage that leads to his rebirth. + +Dante depicts this in his Divine Comedy. The hero, Dante, is led +by Virgil, down through the depth of Inferno (the evil side of the +unconscious), up the mount of Purgatory (the overcoming) and finally +reaches Paradise, where he finds Beatrice, an image of his soul, and a +new wisdom, a new life are his. + +Naturally one cannot do justice to so deep a conception within +the space allotted. But we can see at a glance that much that is +otherwise inexplicable, save on the ground of something miraculous +and supernatural, is now given a more natural explanation. We +can understand the genius as one who has the gift of tapping his +unconscious and bringing forth works which are impossible to the run +of men. We can understand why man has always needed a religion. We can +understand those intuitions which lead to new discoveries in science. +Man has a storehouse of wisdom in himself. + +We can also understand the strange aberrations of insanity, of those +unfortunates who are caught, as it were, in the collective unconscious, +and live only in a world of demons and divinities and uncanny myths. +We can understand too the demonic outbreaks in war, and the cause of +many crimes. I know of the case of a man who was a clergyman, and who, +each time he had finished an impassioned sermon which passed through +the audience like a rousing electricity, immediately went to a brothel +and indulged in an orgy of drink and sexuality. He was a man under the +complete dominance of the collective unconscious. First the divine side +appeared, with its marvelous inspirations; then the demonic, dragging +him in the mud. + +It must not be thought, from the foregoing, that Jung rejected +the sexual theory of Freud. What he did was to modify this theory, +holding that not all cases of neurosis registered sexual repression +or maladjustment. He fully agreed however, that the Oedipus complex +appears as one of the great problems, but instead of interpreting +dreams of this nature to mean that the son actually had incestuous +longings for the mother, he took such dreams, like all others, to be +symbolic. If a man dreams that a monster devours him, it does not mean +that he is literally eaten by a large animal. It means that he has +made a deep introversion. So too a dream of incest means that the son +has reunited himself with the mother. But what does the mother mean? +She may symbolize that period of his life when he actually was united +with her spiritually, the time of early childhood, a time when he was +irresponsible, taken care of, sheltered, helped. His dream may mean +then that he longs to be like a child again; he longs to escape from +the hardships of adaptation and his present problems. + +On the other hand the mother may have a deeper meaning. She may appear +with a supernatural air about her, and stand for the collective +unconscious itself, which is the source (or mother) of our conscious +life. The longing of the son for the mother, from this standpoint, +is the longing for descent into self, for deep introversion. It has +the meaning of the sun-myth where the setting sun is devoured by the +monster and starts on his journey toward rebirth. + +Since there is great danger in the withdrawal from life, in an +introversion that in a way shuts one in oneself, whether one +does this as an escape from responsibility or from a longing for +self-development, it is natural that the myth should represent this +incest-longing as taboo, as forbidden, just as real incest is, and that +it is only the hero who can overcome this taboo and make that great +descent which Dante pictures in his Inferno, and which in Faust is +shown as the perilous descent to the Mothers. + + + + +V. + +THE INTROVERT VS. THE EXTRAVERT. + + +If the reader has compared Freud’s sexual theory with Adler’s power +theory, he must have been struck by the fact that _both theories sound +plausible_. It is certainly true that the conventional morality of +civilization causes us to suppress certain instinctive desires. If +a man is by nature polygamous, and is taught the ideal of monogamy +in such a way as to believe that even the thought of illicit love is +a sin, it is reasonable to think that he may repress his polygamous +tendencies, thus paving the way for an unconscious conflict and a +neurosis. + +But, on the other hand, who has not, at least at times, had the painful +feeling of inferiority and not been stirred by an ambition to get on +top? What seems more natural than that the stammerer, Demosthenes, +should strive to achieve greatness as an orator, or that a club-footed +Byron should attempt to make himself a conqueror of women and a famous +poet? Certainly the struggle for power is as widespread and clearly +discernible in life as the instinctive drive for sexuality and a full +love-life. + +It is at this point that the greatness of Jung emerges. He had, in +the course of his investigations, come upon a startling divergence +of reaction among his patients, so that he was forced to conclude +that there were two kinds of human being, as different, if not more +different, from each other, than the two sexes. These two types he +named the _extravert_ and the _introvert_. + +He next discovered that these two types had long been noted by men of +genius under such designations as objective and subjective, romantic +and classical, realistic and idealistic, materialistic and spiritual. +William James called them the tough-minded and the tender-minded. +William Blake, the English poet, said of them: + +“There are two classes of men: the _prolific_ and the _devouring_. +Religion is an endeavor to reconcile the two.” + +Jung interprets prolific here to mean, “the fruitful, who brings forth +out of himself”; and “the devouring, as the man who swallows up and +takes into himself.” + +Needless to say the prolific type, which has appeared under the +designations of the objective, romantic, realistic, materialistic +and tough-minded, is, more exactly defined, the extravert, and the +devouring type which was also called the subjective, classical, +idealistic, spiritual and tender-minded, is the introvert. + +What characterizes the extravert is that _his interest is normally +centered on things outside himself_. An excellent example was our +own Theodore Roosevelt. He was thoroughly extraverted, with instant +response to the world about him. His attention was given wholeheartedly +to anything that caught it. He was a man with an immense diversity of +interests, from birds and flowers, to simplified spelling, from a local +political fight to an international war; poetry, Greek coins, history, +hunting, sports, finance,--the list was almost endless. And into +each of these interests he could throw himself full force, and with +astonishing power. He was as interested in men as in things, and his +friends included people from every walk of life. He was well adapted +to life, and made himself at home almost anywhere. What characterized +him chiefly was that he gave himself without stint, went into action +at a moment’s notice, had a tendency to practicality and common sense +which kept him from being an extremist; was, in short, an excellent +opportunist, knowing, very often, just when to strike, just what to +say, with a decisiveness that won through. He was the fighting man, the +man of action, the man of his own time, his own age, his own country. + +He was, in other words, a man “orientated by the object.” That is to +say, his life was determined by things and thoughts and ideas coming to +him from the _outside_, in the main. If an enemy showed his head, he +struck; if a friend, he clasped hands; if a popular movement appeared, +he led it; if there was a war he wanted to be in it; if someone else +originated a good idea (not too radical) he took it over and made it +his. + +It will be seen from this that the extravert is normally a man who +is a harmonious part of the world _as it is_. This does not mean, of +course, that he will be merely a conservative; for the world is in +constant change, and an intelligent extravert will be one-to-one with +the forward tide. But since he is, to a large extent, bound up in the +things outside himself, he is, mainly, a reflection of the world. He +could almost say of himself, “I am--what I love.” + +His shortcomings are obvious. He covers a lot of ground, but +necessarily in a shallow way. He cannot be deep, because depth implies +a certain slowness, a certain amount of meditation and constant +study, a brooding and solitude. He originates but little, for it is +the thoughts and ideas of others which interest him. He is an enemy +to anything really new, anything pregnant with the future, because +it collides with the world as it is, which is the world he loves. +Finally, he lacks an inner life, the more creative and profound life; +a fact which the keen-sighted Roosevelt knew very well, for he said of +himself, “My danger is that I forget I have a soul.” + +Such is a brief sketch of the extravert as he appears in a pronounced, +perhaps an extreme form. The value of using an extreme case is, of +course, that he covers the whole territory, and we can see in him the +various sides of the type. Hence, it will be valuable to consider an +extreme introvert, the direct opposite of Roosevelt, so that we may +come to an understanding of the contrasting type. + +If the extravert is characterized by the fact that his interest +is normally centered in things outside himself, the introvert is +characterized by the fact that his interest is normally centered on +things _inside_ himself. From the extravert’s standpoint this would +mean that the introvert was a man who thought of nothing but himself, +was consumed with his own aches and pains, his own fears and hopes, and +perhaps certain erratic and absurd or dangerous ideas. For everything +that the extravert holds most dear, as action, fitting in, being a +“good fellow,” getting on, the introvert looks upon as rather shallow +and cheap, and vice versa, everything most valuable to the introvert +seems foolish, absurd, ridiculous, dangerous to the extravert. + +Naturally, to be interested in the things inside oneself need not be +anything trivial. Within oneself is the world of thought and ideas, the +world of imagination, the world out of which every art, every religion, +every philosophy, every invention, every fresh discovery of science, +every new idea for the advancement and development of the race has +sprung. Kant, oblivious of the world, sat and brooded, until out of +himself sprang a great philosophy which wrought a change in the mind of +Europe. A Jesus from his solitary brooding brings forth a new religion. +A Michaelangelo in his isolation gives birth to colossal art. + +We find in Friedrich Nietzsche an example of the extreme introvert. +His life, like those of most introverts who were extreme, was devoid of +action and hence without history. There is very little to say about it, +for the real drama took place within him. He served for a short time +in a war, but was discharged because of sickness. He taught philology +for a time in a university. But finally, on a small income, he retired, +and led a secluded life, producing his works, until, while still in +the prime of life, he became insane. He did not marry; he had but few +friends; he was a solitary. + +Where Roosevelt presents the picture of a man at home in the world, +Nietzsche is seen as a stranger in it, an alien. Where Roosevelt +went straight out and acted, Nietzsche withdrew into his shell. +Where Roosevelt forgot himself in others, in causes, in the glamour +and absorption of _things_, Nietzsche remained in a state of _acute +self-consciousness_. A Roosevelt glories in the world and thinks it is +good and the people in it excellent and interesting; a Nietzsche sees +it as full of horrible and terrible things and is filled with revulsion +at the sight of human cowardice, slothfulness and depravity. Where +a Roosevelt spreads himself all over, interested in a multitude of +objects, a Nietzsche concentrates more and more on a few things, a few +ideas, a life which shuts out as much as possible anything that will +disturb his predetermined path. + +This is the normal attitude of the introvert. He is ill adapted to +the outer world, because he is absorbed in the inner world. And this +absorption leads, in the case of a Nietzsche, to great discoveries and +great works. + +If we remember Jung’s conception of the collective unconscious as the +summation of the past, the storehouse of wisdom, the creative source, +we may readily understand that the collective unconscious is the +psychic stream of life itself and that it not only bears the past in +it, but also the budding future. That which is to be lies creatively +within it, and is revealed to the great artist, the great thinker in +majestic symbols and so-called visions. That is why we say that great +art and great thought are always ahead of the world. For the extreme +introvert, absorbed in himself, lives in that world of imagination +where the products of the collective unconscious become known to +him. He has deep intuitions, he actually may have symbols and ideas +presented to him in dream and phantasy, even in hallucination. The +English mystic, Blake, actually saw the forms and shapes which he drew, +and claimed, also, that some of his poems were dictated to him by a +voice. I have already spoken of Moses’ experience with the burning bush +and the voice of God. + +It was quite natural therefore that Nietzsche should have been a +forerunner. Out of his years of solitude there came at last an eruption +from the unconscious which was nothing short of amazing. Each part of +Thus Spake Zarathustra, and each part is about a hundred pages long, +was written in ten days. The thoughts and words came so fast that +Nietzsche could not keep up with them. If he was walking, he had to +write on scraps of paper. The experience was so overwhelming that he +compared it with that of the Biblical prophets, and said that not in +two thousand years had there been another such case of inspiration. + +What is Thus Spake Zarathustra? It is an incomparable picture of the +collective unconscious, as Jung points out, and foreshadows the new +psychology, which by the slow, painfully cumulative method of science +has come to some of the same discoveries that Nietzsche grasped +intuitively. It also is an indictment of Christian civilization and +foreshadows its breaking up by the erection of a new principle, the +Anti-Christ, the principle of power. + +It is, therefore, a revolutionary document, so far in advance of the +time when it was written that Nietzsche dared to show it only to +seven people, most of whom rejected it. He felt that he was in utter +isolation, a “voice crying in the wilderness.” + +What Nietzsche celebrates (as shown in the section on Adler) is +_will-to-power_. The doctrine of Christianity is love, and the rule of +love has certain implications. It means that everyone is included, for +in the eyes of love the object is always valuable. To a loving mother +the child who is an idiot is as precious (if not more so) than his more +normal brothers and sisters. She loves him: that gives him value. Hence +the rule of love means equality, fraternity, democracy. It leads to the +idea of the greatest good for the greatest number. It leads, in short, +to the idea of numbers; the rule of the many. + +Its dangers are obvious. Everything new, original, different is +pulled down to the common level. It breeds the spirit of conformity, +and finally eventuates in the Babbitts, the ideals of Main Street, the +formation of Ku Klux Klans. Such are the final fruits of a rampant rule +of love. If your neighbors are as valuable (really more valuable) than +yourself (for love always places the object above oneself) then you +should submit to your neighbors, live and do as they live and do, and +give up your own individual path, your own way, and anything original +or new that may be created by you. + +It is against this that Nietzsche comes with a voice which is far +deeper than a personal voice. It is the protest of the collective +unconscious itself; it is a deep racial movement against a violation +of man’s own future. Hence, Nietzsche sets the individual against +the race; he raises an aristocratic ideal against the democratic; +he celebrates new values, original things, the exceptional and the +different. As against love, he rears the doctrine of power. And by +power he means the setting of oneself against the race, and the triumph +of oneself, for in this triumph, the new is born, the new art, new +idea, new thinking, and the race is forced into new paths of greatness. + +But, seen in another light, the meaning of Zarathustra is the _revolt +of the introvert against the extravert_. + +Western civilization is the civilization of the extravert. A +civilization built up on the principle of love is one which puts the +accent on others, on things outside ourself. As the saying goes, it +takes two to love; there is always the other, and that other is more +important than oneself, if it is really love. Hence, love is the root +of the extraverted attitude. As I said of Roosevelt, he might have put +it of himself: “I am--what I love.” + +Such a civilization, therefore, tends toward action, democracy, the +rule of the many, invention, business (the exchange between people), +and since the power of a civilization over the individual is almost +overwhelming, it means that a Christian civilization has thwarted, +twisted, deformed all those whose natures were not in accord with it. +Christianity has been a violation of the introvert. + +For, naturally, what Nietzsche depicts in his superman and his +will-to-power, is himself. He depicts the psychology of the introvert. +The introvert is governed by the power principle. Where the extravert +finds relief, and only functions happily, by losing himself in others, +by giving himself to the world outside him; the introvert finds relief +only by remembering himself, by refusing to allow others to absorb +him, by withdrawing from the outer world. The introvert is constantly +striving to preserve the integrity of his ego. He seeks an inner +freedom. He feels bound by the demands of others. Action takes him away +from the stream of his ideas, his inner brooding, and he will not have +much of it. Serving others often seems to him a shallow thing, a waste +of time, compared with the great discovery he is tracking, or the art +he is aiming to achieve. + +Power vs. love--introvert vs. extravert. + +And how is it that two such dissimilar human beings appear in the +same world? We have only to go back to the root-instincts in man +to come to some sort of understanding. As we know, the two great +instincts are that of self-preservation and that of race-preservation. +Self-preservation leads us to think of ourselves, to turn the eye +inward. It is selfish, hence, it is power, not love. Race-preservation +leads us to think of others, of wife and family, of neighbors, of the +world, to turn the eye outward. It concerns interest in others; hence, +it is more love than power. + +The symbol of self-preservation is eating, devouring (we eat just for +ourselves); the symbol of race-preservation is sexuality (the motive in +sexuality is, unconsciously, to beget offspring). + +One sees now how this discovery of the types by Jung settles the +question as to the puzzling opposition between the theories of Freud +and Adler. + +Freud’s theory is the sexual, Adler’s the will-to-power. In other +words, as Jung has pointed out, Freud is an extravert, and his theory +reflects himself; Adler is an introvert, and his theory is typical of +his type. + +Both theories are, in a sense, true; only we must never apply the +Freudian theory to an introvert, nor the Adler theory to an extravert. + +It will be seen now how the theory of the collective unconscious +includes both the theory of Freud and the theory of Adler and +transcends them both. In the collective unconscious are both the +summed up wisdom of the race with its creative forward push and also +the instincts. The roots of both ego and sex are to be found there, +flowering in one individual more along the ego path, in another more +along the sex path. + +The trouble with both Freud and Adler, according to Jung, is that +they stop at this point. Their theories are _reductive_. The one +reduces human nature back to sex, the other to power. We are _nothing +but_--this or that. But, actually, we are also all we have experienced, +and not only that, but also all the race has experienced. We are also +creative. We cannot explain man only in terms of the past, in the +things from which he originated (finally, the instincts), we must also +explain him in terms of the future, his possibilities, the new life he +is seeking, the greatness which is to be. + +In short, we cannot cure a neurosis merely by explaining to a man that +he has an Oedipus complex or a homosexual tendency; neither can we cure +him by showing him that he has an inferiority complex and hence an +abnormal will-to-power. We can only cure him by giving him a future to +live; he must go out and feel that he has something to live for. + +Just how psycho-analysis arrives at such a result must be reserved for +a later chapter. + + + + +VI. + +TYPES. + + +In picturing Roosevelt as an extravert and Nietzsche as an introvert, +I did not mean to imply, of course, that either lacked the opposite +mechanism. All of us are born with both the sexual-instinct and the +ego-instinct, the gift of love and the will-to-power. However, because +we are loaded more one way than the other, the one tendency tends to +suppress the other, and the other remains therefore, not erased, but +relatively undeveloped, and shows itself in inadequate and perhaps +twisted expression. + +There was, of course, an extravert in Nietzsche. But that extravert +lived a shadowy life beside the great introvert, and showed himself in +a clumsy relationship with others, an inadequate response to the world, +an inability to get along. So too was there an introvert in Roosevelt, +but he was a poor one, with doubtless strange ideas sometimes breaking +forth into impulsive and wrong-headed action. + +All that we can say is that life forces us to accept one side more than +the other, until we become, as it were, specialists along the side of +extraversion or of introversion. + +This specialization, of course, makes us one-sided, and this +one-sidedness reaches an even greater narrowness through a still +further specialization, which is that of _function_. + +According to Jung, the human psyche is composed of four functions. +These are _thinking_, _feeling_, _intuition_ and _sensation_. + +I do not intend to burden the reader with explanations of these terms, +for we would go far afield in a maze of technicalities. I will merely +try to give a hint of their meaning. + +_Thinking_ is readily recognizable. It is, in its pure form, an act of +will, and it may begin with an idea, which it proceeds to illustrate +and to prove, or it may begin with many separated facts and proceeds to +bind them together into a theory or idea. + +_Feeling_ is a reaction of like or dislike to an object. It must not +be confused with _emotion_. Both thinking and feeling, according to +Jung, are adapted functions; that is, functions which have developed +through the discipline of life, and which did not exist in their pure +forms when we were born. _Emotion_, however, is something allied to +our instinctive life and something we share with the animals. It is +psychologically what Jung calls a feeling-sensation; that is to say, +it is partly physical and partly mental. We see this clearly when we +find an emotion of shame bringing a blush to the cheek, or one of fear +setting the heart pounding, or one of joy making the pulses leap. In +each case we were aware of something mental, sense of joy, fear, etc., +and something physical, heart pounding, cheeks blushing, etc. + +Feeling is separated from sensation and developed into something by +itself. The feeling person is one who has a highly developed sense of +the values of things registered through reactions of like and dislike. +His immediate liking is not accidental, but due to a high sensitiveness +to the really good qualities of the object; his disliking is equally a +deep and a true thing. + +If thinking and feeling are conscious functions, that is, more or less +under the direction of the will (one makes oneself think, one learns to +like and dislike), intuition and sensation are unconscious functions. +There is no control of them. They simply happen. + +_Intuition_ is a sort of instant insight. It has something of the +lightning flash in it. It is a seeing-into. And this seeing-into may +be of something near or of something far. A man may have a hunch +that a certain horse is going to win a race; a woman may have an +intuition that her husband, in spite of his protests, has been untrue +to her. Intuitions may also be of a deeper sort. The intuition of the +painter leads him to paint the soul, the inner life of the sitter. The +intuition of the inventor by a blinding flash reveals the solution of +the problem. + +_Sensation_, according to Jung, is sensing, a function which transmits +a physical stimulus to perception. We see, hear, feel (contact), etc. +It is our conscious sensing of the world about us through images, +sounds, etc., just as intuition is an unconscious sensing of the world +about us. Hence, sensation relates more closely to the physical life, +the body, than any of the other functions. + +Now what Jung maintains, and amply proves in his great work on +Psychological Types, is that each of us is not only either an introvert +or an extravert, but also that each of us _develops one of these four +functions at the expense of the others_. There are therefore thinking +types, feeling types, intuitive types and sensational types, and since +any of these types is also either extraverted or introverted we have +eight types. + +I will merely give a few examples to show what the types are like: + +_Extraverted thinking type._ A good example is Darwin. He was a slow, +patient thinker; thinking was most obviously his most highly developed +function; but this function was extraverted. That is to say, like all +extraverts his attention and interest was in outer things and the ideas +of others. Hence he was one who built up a theory on observed data, +whether this was a direct study of plants and animals or in reading the +works of others. His thoughts proceeded from the outside in. + +_Introverted thinking type._ Kant is a good example. He was a great +philosopher. Instead of proceeding from facts to theory, he proceeded +from ideas to facts. That is to say, through his introversion, he +received ideas from the unconscious, great ideas of a timeless nature, +conceptions of time, space, etc., and these he proceeded to elaborate +and prove. + +_Extraverted feeling type._ A good example of this type is Mary +Pickford. It is obvious that she is not a thinker; neither is she one +of those intuitive persons who see into others and know life deeply. +She feels others. She responds by like and dislike; and by the fitness +of things. She is well extraverted and well adapted. + +_Introverted feeling type._ Eleanore Duse is an example. She was a +great actress; but one felt her to be one of those silent women whose +feelings are all within, who nurse deep moods, who cannot express their +personal selves, who have great difficulty in their relationships and +tend, as a rule, to shun the world and live in seclusion. + +According to Jung thinking is more a masculine function; both +extraverted and introverted it is found more in men than in women; +feeling is more feminine, and is usually found in women. + +_Extraverted intuitive type._ Lloyd George, of England, is of this +type. A friend of mine who met him during the war said that as soon as +Lloyd George looked at him, he felt he was completely understood, that +the statesman saw through him. His gift has been to see the tide even +before it turned, to see the possibilities in the people about them, +to leap to his conclusions with a sure agility. If the thinking and +feeling types are more or less steady, pursuing a definite and logical +course, the intuitive type (and sensational) is changeable, erratic, +swift, fickle. This is due to the fact that wherever they see a new +possibility, they leap to it, forgetting what they hitherto pursued. + +_Introverted intuitive type._ An excellent example is that given +in the last chapter, that of Nietzsche. His intuitions were of the +introverted kind. He saw inwardly, into the unconscious. This type +is usually very badly adapted to the world. It is close to the +unconscious, and its great intuitions of change, disaster and the new +order of the future put it at variance with society to such an extent +as to make life very difficult. Undoubtedly such men have always been +the great mystics, the great prophets, as Jung quotes, “the voice of +one crying in the wilderness.” + +_Extraverted sensation type._ We see examples of this type very often +among actors, dancers, circus people. They are people of a very +sensuous nature, depending more on the sharp stimulus of sensation than +on any other function. We also see examples among men who are epicures +at eating, spend much of their time on fine dressing, and who seek +sensation for its own sake, sensuous surroundings, the more sybaritic +forms of sexuality, etc. Among women we see an inordinate love of +luxury, a theatrical exhibitionism, and self-indulgence in many forms. +Since this type is the least noble (as the intuitive is the most noble) +examples need not be given. + +_Introverted sensation type._ This is a type extremely hard to +define. I will merely suggest it. It is probable that the poet Poe +was of this type. He was certainly introverted, but his work is not +marked specifically by deep thought, by feeling or by intuition. +If we consider his poetry we see that he gives us strange pictures +of a No Man’s Land of the imagination; and that he senses these +imaginative realms of the dead and the ghostly. We feel a reality in +these dark pictures. But they have no meaning in the way of giving us +to understand life more deeply or leading us to great ideas or high +flights of feeling. What they do give us is a sense of “out of space, +out of time,” as he himself put it. Introverted sensation gives us just +that. It is a sensing of the eternal images of the unconscious. + +Such, by a series of swift strokes, are the eight types. I cannot, of +course, in this space, do full justice to them. They are included in +this survey because they represent an important element in Jung’s work +and serve to show how dark and deep are the psychological problems of +the race. With eight types (possibly more) living in the world about +us, there is indeed much room for misunderstanding and for human +conflict. + +It is also obvious that Nietzsche was psychologically correct when +he said that he saw only fragments of human beings about him, and +nowhere a man. Here he saw an arm, there a leg, there an eye and here +an ear, there a mouth and here a breast. In short, he saw a world of +specialization, where one man becomes, like Darwin, a good thinker, but +also is callous to art and to the beauty and joy of life; and where +another develops neither his thinking nor his insight, but spends his +existence in a vain round of the senses. + +It is no wonder, then, that there is so much mental sickness. Too +great a one-sidedness is a violation of man’s nature, which is full of +various needs and must, if it develops freely, live a rounded life. +Hence, according to Jung, the basis of the neurosis is not merely a +sexual problem or a problem of power; it is due to the conflict between +the developed and the undeveloped functions. There comes a time for the +thinker, for instance, when his outraged feeling life must manifest +itself. It is at such a moment that the neurosis begins. + + + + +VII. + +THE CONFLICT AND ITS SOLUTION. + + +If we want to put the matter in its broadest sense, we can say that +the great conflict of this age is between the extraverted attitude and +the introverted, between Christ and Anti-Christ, between Christianity +with its democracy, its insistence on good works, its life of activity +and service, its concentration, actually, on business, machinery and +getting on, and on the other hand, the claims of the individual and the +demands of the inner life for an enhancement of art, of research, of +philosophy, of spiritual development, of freedom. + +It is a conflict between the principle of love and the principle of +power, and naturally, it is not only an external thing, but something +that takes place in every individual who has made any sort of high +development. For it is a psychic law that if we carry anything to an +extreme, we meet the opposite. + +This is clearly illustrated in Goethe’s Faust. The hero, Faust, has +carried his introverted side to a very high development; indeed, so +far, that everything he studied and all that he knows now appears +lifeless and uninteresting. He is sick of himself, sick of life. It +is all nothing. His search for knowledge has led nowhere. In the end +all that we know is--that we cannot know. What a pity then that he has +squandered his youth on study and meditation and medicine. A kind of +death comes over him; which means, psychologically, that he has reached +the end of one line of development, and is preparing himself to change +over to another and new line. + +This soon appears, in the form of a poodle dog who soon shows himself +as the Devil. Both these symbols are inevitable. A dog, as shown +before, relates to our more extraverted side, and it is this side for +which Faust now longs. He has reached the end of his development (for +the time being) as an introvert; the longing that now is awakened is +for _life_--that is, for youth, activity, sexuality, love, ardent +adventure, etc. Hence, the symbol of the dog as representing the side +of himself he has not developed. But this really is also the Devil. +That is to say that which is undeveloped is still in a primitive state, +and through its long repression, bears the aspect of something ugly +and evil. In order, therefore, to reach the “other side,” in order to +begin to live out the unlived possibilities of his nature, he must sell +himself to the Devil. + +That is to say, that when the undeveloped side shows itself and takes +command, it cannot be lived unless one is willing to go a path which +may often appear evil and which is in direct defiance to what one has +previously lived and thought good. + +This selling out to the Devil appears as a great danger. It means +that he will never be “saved,” never go to heaven. But actually in +the prologue of the play, God allows the Devil to make this compact +with Faust because the Devil is “a part of that power which wills the +bad, but somehow works the good.” That is to say, if one is willing to +step over into the undeveloped side, and live it in spite of its evil +beginnings, one can only develop oneself and finally come to a higher +good. + +Such the drama shows. By magic Faust gains wealth and power. He seduces +Gretchen, and her end is insanity, infanticide and a death that +narrowly escapes the gallows. But Faust goes on, and the whole play +shows how, by following the Devil, he brings the neglected side up to +the developed side of himself, so that in the end the Devil is defeated +and Faust gains that heaven where the two sides of his nature may now +be united in harmony. + +If Faust outlines the problem, another great work, the “Prometheus and +Epimetheus” of Spitteler, shows its solution. Jung is at great pains to +analyze this long poem in his book on Psychological Types. Prometheus +and Epimetheus stand respectively for introvert and extravert. +Prometheus is the idealist who withdraws from the world into himself to +love and serve his soul; but Epimetheus is the man of the world, who +has common sense, who obeys the conventions and who becomes a king. +Epimetheus cannot wean his foolish brother from his obviously perverted +way of living. A conflict arises between them, which drives Prometheus +all the deeper in himself. Thus a great sickness falls not only upon +him, but upon his God (the collective unconscious). His soul then +brings him a jewel, a thing of magic, a wonder-child, which will save +the world. But this jewel is rejected by the king and by the world, and +as a result there is destruction, the king losing his throne. + +“The final extinction of Good is prevented by the intervention of +Prometheus. He rescues Messias, the last of the sons of God, out +of the power of his enemy. Messias becomes the heir to the Divine +Kingdom, while Prometheus and Epimetheus, the personifications of the +severed opposites, become united in the seclusion of their native +valley.... Which means, extraversion and introversion cease to dominate +as one-sided lines of direction.... In their stead, a new function +appears, symbolically represented by a child named Messias. He is the +mediator, the symbol of the new attitude that shall reconcile the +opposites.” + +What is the exact meaning of this? To begin with, Prometheus and +Epimetheus must be thought of, not as two men, but as the two sides of +one man, the conflict, in short, between introversion and extraversion. +In the normal course of development, like Faust, one develops first one +side, then the other. Naturally the time must come when the conflict +breaks out in full force: shall one follow the principle of power, +of introversion, or that of love, of extraversion? This conflict +produces a deadlock, and in this deadlock, a solution is offered by the +unconscious in the form of a symbol (the jewel, the wonder-child.) But +this is not understood, and there is a breakdown and collapse. However, +now a new path is found which leads out. + +This path Jung calls the _transcendent function_; this indeed is the +Messias of the poem. It is part of the analytic process, and emerges +only at the end of a deep analysis. What it amounts to is an _inner +guidance_. + +I have already shown that the collective unconscious is creative, that +it is ahead of the race, and projects at times, through geniuses, a +vision of what is to be, what is becoming. Just as it does this for the +race, it also to a certain extent, and at certain times, is prospective +for the individual, laying out the next step he is to take, and +forecasting the next phase of his development. + +This prospective quality is rarely found in the dream, though sometimes +it appears there. It is usually found in the _phantasy_. The phantasy +is a product analogous to the dream, but whereas when we dream we are +fully asleep, and hence, unconscious, the phantasy appears between +waking and sleeping, when we are really half-asleep. It appears as a +sort of dream, sometimes as a clear plastic image, and we know, when we +apprehend it, that we are not asleep. + +As Jung works out in great detail, the phantasy has a greater +value than the dream, for the dream is merely the product of the +unconscious, whereas the phantasy is the product of both the conscious +and unconscious minds working simultaneously at that moment when we +are half-conscious, or between the two. Hence, it contains in symbolic +form, our deepest insight, our deepest wish, our clearest foreknowledge +of what to do, being in this respect also superior to our conscious +working out of the problem. + +It is by following the insight gained from our phantasies that we +work out the problem of the deep conflict; for if we follow these +phantasies, we take the next necessary step and so learn gradually to +reconcile the claims of extraversion with those of introversion. + +In the great religion of the Hindoos, and in fact, in a religion of +the Chinese, we hear much of a Middle Path. The problem as set forth +by those religions is that life consists of a pair of opposites; such +for instance as spirituality vs. materialism, feminine vs. masculine, +love vs. power, divine vs. demonic, etc., and they see clearly that +neither extreme can bring peace. If we live one extreme then soon we +thirst and hunger for the other, and this brings discord and conflict. +The true wisdom of life then is to find a Middle Path, a way between +the opposites. This way is not something that can be thought out +and entered by violence. It is something found gradually through +development in religious ritual. + +It is this great thought, this truth which emerges again in modern +psychology. But it comes now with a difference. Psycho-analysis is a +highly specialized scientific technic. It does not deal with ritual +and dogma, it does not lay down general laws to the individual. It +recognizes that his problem is different from that of all other +individuals, and seeks to guide him, not from without, but from within. +From the material which rises naturally from his own psyche, from dream +and phantasy and intuition, he gains the insight which he must follow. + +Hence, religion ceases to be a mass-matter, but becomes an individual +matter. As Jung puts it, every creed attempts to make us all live the +phantasies of the founder of the religion. His phantasies may have been +very great and very deep; but they were, in the main, his own. Every +human being is constantly producing phantasies, and in these lies his +own path, and not in those of someone’s else. + +What is the goal then of this immense struggle in the human being, +this psychic conflict which sometimes goes on to a point of shattering +the individual, this inner division that cries out for healing, and +which goads us forward to our development? The word that Jung gives +us is _individuation_. We aim, he says, to be individuals in the true +sense of the word. Certainly, however, the fragments that Nietzsche +saw are not individuals, for an individual is one who contains the +many-sidedness of human nature in a state of inner harmony. If then +this one-sidedness precludes individuality, the psyche must be +constantly urging us on to develop that which has been neglected in +order that the undeveloped side may rise level to the developed side, +and so that in the end one may be a complete, rounded, harmonious human +being. + +This is the light which the new psychology offers to the race at +a moment of its greatest darkness. It has just fought the bloodiest +and most devastating war of all history; it has fought that war +in the twilight of the Gods. Its old Gods are disintegrating and +vanishing. Everywhere we see the harsh conflict going on, and at the +very moment when man has reached his highest point of extraversion, +with his machines, his radios and phonographs and aeroplanes, his +automobiles and newspapers and movies, his triumph over nature, we see +everywhere the sadness and suffering of humanity, the breakdown of +white civilization in Europe, the restless stirrings of the East, and +an immense increase in neurosis and insanity. A great change is due; +a new light has come. This new light however, is not a religion, it +is nothing to broadcast and apply _en masse_. It is a technic which +must reach individual by individual, making him known to himself, +discovering for him his type with its needs and limitation, showing him +his possibilities, directing him to the path of his own development. +Naturally such development will be different for each individual. +There are not many, as Jung shows, who must go to the painful lengths +depicted in the story of Prometheus and Epimetheus, or even in the +story of Faust. For the majority, a deeper self-understanding, +a knowledge of the types, an ability to understand some of the +products of the unconscious, a lifting off of the repressions, a full +recognition of one’s own needs and desires, will be enough to bring +about a more harmonious, a more fruitful life. But for the few, a +higher, deeper suffering is necessary, possibly because of their gifts, +which may thus be developed and become a heritage for the race. + + + + +VIII. + +NOTE. + + +This booklet has aimed to give a glimpse of a vast territory, merely +enough to set the reader toward the complete works on the subject. +It has been necessary to condense and suggest, where a deeper +understanding would be reached by elaboration and numerous examples. +For those who care to study the matter more deeply it is suggested +that they begin Jung by reading the second edition of his Papers in +Analytical Psychology. This is a difficult book because it contains a +series of articles which show his growth, step by step toward a new +insight. Much that he writes there he has since discarded. However, it +is well to read whatever of it one finds interesting. + +The next step is to read The Psychology of the Unconscious, which +uncovers the theory of the collective unconscious; and finally Jung’s +master-work up to this time, his Psychological Types. + +If I have stimulated the reader to the point where he desires to go on +to these works, then the purpose with which I wrote this little book is +fulfilled. + + + + +Transcriber’s Note + + +Italicized text is surrounded by underscores: _italics_. + +Erroneously placed or missing quotation marks or punctuation have been +silently corrected. + +The following printer errors or inconsistencies have been changed: + +p. 5: “bads” changed to “bad” (receiving bad news) + +p. 16: “homo-sexual” changed to “homosexual” (homosexual interest) + +p. 18: “psychoanalytic” changed to “psycho-analytic” (In the course of +his psycho-analytic practice) + +p. 56: “Epitheus” changed to “Epimetheus” (while Prometheus and +Epimetheus, the personifications) + +p. 57: “analagous” changed to “analogous” (The phantasy is a product +analogous to the dream) + +*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 77864 *** diff --git a/77864-h/77864-h.htm b/77864-h/77864-h.htm new file mode 100644 index 0000000..afca562 --- /dev/null +++ b/77864-h/77864-h.htm @@ -0,0 +1,2402 @@ +<!DOCTYPE html> +<html lang="en"> +<head> + <meta charset="UTF-8"> + <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"> + <title> + The Psychology of Jung | Project Gutenberg + </title> + <link rel="icon" href="images/cover.jpg" type="image/x-cover"> + <style> + +body { + margin-left: 10%; + margin-right: 10%; +} + +h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6 { + text-align: center; /* all headings centered */ + clear: both; +} +h1 { + font-size: 2.5em +} +.author { + font-size: 1.5em +} +.bold{ + font-weight: bold; +} + +p { + margin-top: .51em; + text-align: justify; + margin-bottom: .49em; + text-indent: 1.25em; +} + +.p2 {margin-top: 2em;} +.p6 {margin-top: 6em;} + +.lbb {font-size:1.15em;} + +hr { + width: 33%; + margin-top: 2em; + margin-bottom: 2em; + margin-left: 33.5%; + margin-right: 33.5%; + clear: both; +} + +hr.chap {width: 65%; margin-left: 17.5%; margin-right: 17.5%;} +@media print { hr.chap {display: none; visibility: hidden;} } + +div.chapter {page-break-before: always;} +h2.nobreak {page-break-before: avoid;} + +table { + margin-left: auto; + margin-right: auto; +} +table.toc { border-collapse: collapse;} +table.toc td, +table.toc th { padding: 0.25em; } + + +.tdl {text-align: left;} +.tdr {text-align: right;} +.thl {text-align: left;} +.thr {text-align: right;} + +.pagenum { /* uncomment the next line for invisible page numbers */ + /* visibility: hidden; */ + position: absolute; + left: 92%; + font-size: small; + text-align: right; + font-style: normal; + font-weight: normal; + font-variant: normal; + text-indent: 0; +} /* page numbers */ + +.center {text-align: center;} + +.half-title +{ + text-align: center; + font-size: large; + margin: 6em 0; +} + +/* Transcriber's notes */ +.transnote {background-color: #E6E6FA; + color: black; + font-size:small; + padding:0.5em; + margin-bottom:5em; + font-family:sans-serif, serif; +} + + </style> +</head> +<body> +<div style='text-align:center'>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 77864 ***</div> + + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_1">[Pg 1]</span></p> + +<p class="center lbb">LITTLE BLUE BOOK NO. <span class="bold">978</span></p> + +<p class="center">Edited by E. Haldeman-Julius</p> + +<h1> +The Psychology +<br> +of Jung +</h1> + +<p class="center author">James Oppenheim</p> + +<p class="center p6">HALDEMAN-JULIUS COMPANY</p> + +<p class="center">GIRARD, KANSAS</p> + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> +<div class="chapter"> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_2">[Pg 2]</span></p> + + +<p class="center p2">Copyright, 1925,</p> + +<p class="center">Haldeman-Julius Company</p> + +<p class="center p2">PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA</p> + +</div> + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> +<div class="chapter"> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_3">[Pg 3]</span></p> + +<p class="half-title">THE PSYCHOLOGY OF JUNG.</p> + +</div> + + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> +<div class="chapter"> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_4">[Pg 4]</span></p> + + + <h2 class="nobreak" id="CONTENTS"> + CONTENTS. + </h2> + + +<table class="toc"> + <tr> + <th class="thl"> + Chapter + </th> + <th class="thr"> + Page + </th> + </tr> + + <tr> + <td class="tdl"> + <a href="#I">I. The Psychology of the Future</a> + </td> + <td class="tdr"> + <a href="#Page_5">5</a> + </td> + </tr> + + <tr> + <td class="tdl"> + <a href="#II">II. The Sexual Theory</a> + </td> + <td class="tdr"> + <a href="#Page_8">8</a> + </td> + </tr> + + <tr> + <td class="tdl"> + <a href="#III">III. Will-To-Power</a> + </td> + <td class="tdr"> + <a href="#Page_18">18</a> + </td> + </tr> + + <tr> + <td class="tdl"> + <a href="#IV">IV. The Break Between Freud and Jung</a> + </td> + <td class="tdr"> + <a href="#Page_22">22</a> + </td> + </tr> + + <tr> + <td class="tdl"> + <a href="#V">V. The Introvert vs. the Extravert</a> + </td> + <td class="tdr"> + <a href="#Page_33">33</a> + </td> + </tr> + + <tr> + <td class="tdl"> + <a href="#VI">VI. Types</a> + </td> + <td class="tdr"> + <a href="#Page_45">45</a> + </td> + </tr> + + <tr> + <td class="tdl"> + <a href="#VII">VII. The Conflict and Its Solution</a> + </td> + <td class="tdr"> + <a href="#Page_53">53</a> + </td> + </tr> + + <tr> + <td class="tdl"> + <a href="#VIII">VIII. Note</a> + </td> + <td class="tdr"> + <a href="#Page_61">61</a> + </td> + </tr> +</table> + +</div> + + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> +<div class="chapter"> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_5">[Pg 5]</span></p> + + <h2 class="nobreak" id="THE_PSYCHOLOGY_OF_JUNG"> + THE PSYCHOLOGY OF JUNG. + </h2> + + <h3 class="nobreak" id="I"> + I. + <br> + THE PSYCHOLOGY OF THE FUTURE. + </h3> +</div> + + +<p>The origin of the new psychology, with its +technic universally known as psycho-analysis, +lies in the effort which man has always made +to cure those ills “not of the body.” When we +speak of the ills of the “soul,” we do not, however, +mean that the mind is not a part of the +body. We merely mean that there is a difference, +for instance, between the illness that +might arise from receiving <ins id="cor_05" title="Transcriber's Note: original text - bads">bad</ins> news, and +that which was caused, say, by being knocked +down by a motor car. The first we call a mental +ill, a spiritual malady, the second a +physical.</p> + +<p>The old shaman of the savage tribe did not +only attempt to cure gangrene and malaria +and sore throat; he also treated people who +were “possessed by demons” or had “lost their +souls”; he treated people who had lost hope, +who were despairing, who wanted a charm to +conquer the object of love or hate, who desired +success, who heard voices, saw visions and +were afraid to live.</p> + +<p>From the beginning, therefore, man has attempted +to bring a healing to the mind. Every +religion has been such an attempt.</p> + +<p>The trouble with this, however, from our +modern standpoint, is that a religion demands +faith, not only in the natural, but the supernatural; +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_6">[Pg 6]</span>and not only, let it be added, in the +supernatural, but a very definite and dogmatic +supernatural, some set of stories and brand of +divinities. There are Gods, Devils and ghosts +to which we must submit. But modern science, +which has steadfastly discredited mythology +and sought to explain life and its phenomena +by natural causes, or laws of nature, +has seriously undermined the old religions, and +we see them beginning to topple in all places +of the earth.</p> + +<p>However, the science of medicine, which +sought to discover the causes of sickness, +reached a limit beyond which it could not +pass. If there is no medicine for a broken +heart, there is also none for a man with a +fixed idea or one with a sense of utter inferiority. +The insane cannot be cured by drugs +or by operations, except in those rare curable +cases which have an indubitable physical +origin. The thousands creeping and stumbling +around the world, victims of neurosis, cannot +be reached by serums or diets.</p> + +<p>It was therefore necessary for medicine to +go beyond itself, to invade the wide and dark +realm of religion and preempt the creeds, by +applying the technic of science to what had +hitherto been understood darkly through intuition, +guess-work and “revelation.”</p> + +<p>It is not my intention to give a history of +the origin and rise of psycho-analysis. That, +in itself, is a book. It is merely necessary to +say that the first genius in this field was +Sigmund Freud, that Freud made the first +great discoveries, that he traced the first chart +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_7">[Pg 7]</span>of the unconscious mind, and that he originated +the first technic of psycho-analysis.</p> + +<p>If Freud, however, was the pioneer, it remained +for two of his pupils to carry the work +forward to the point where it has become one +of the vital contributions to the race. The +work of Adler, the first of these, came as a +revolt against Freud and gave rise to a rival +theory. The work of Jung, however, not only +brought a synthesis of the work of Adler and +Freud, but went beyond both. It is for this +reason, then, that I call his work “the psychology +of the future.”</p> + +<p>In order to come to a clear understanding of +Jung, it will be necessary first to summarize +the theories of both Freud and Adler. We can +then see how Jung, accepting both, has transcended +both, and laid out the first tracings +of a complete psychology.</p> + + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> +<div class="chapter"> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_8">[Pg 8]</span></p> + + + <h3 class="nobreak" id="II"> + II. + <br> + THE SEXUAL THEORY. + </h3> +</div> + + +<p>Freud sees life as a great and never-ending +conflict between civilization, or organized society, +and the individual. The individual is +born with certain instincts, desires, wishes. +Many of these are in conflict with the law +and moral code of society. Hence, they are +suppressed.</p> + +<p>This suppression works, however, in a curious +way. Not only are the unlawful and “sinful” +impulses shut out of the mind; they are +also forgotten. And because they are forgotten, +we actually have the spectacle of pious +men and women who can solemnly swear that +they are quite free of murderous, lustful, lecherous, +dangerous thoughts and wishes; that +they are “good” people; that they have nothing +in common with the criminal and the debased.</p> + +<p>As a matter of fact, however, no instinct, +no function in man can be abolished by cutting +it off from consciousness. It is merely repressed, +and forms what Dr. Jung later denoted +as a <em>complex</em>; that is to say, a group +of ideas, emotions, wishes that all go together +and become a sort of mental family living off +by itself, in exile.</p> + +<p>It is, in reality, a part of consciousness of +which we are unconscious: a part of the mind +shut out by the barrier of our will and our +forgetfulness. And since there are many +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_9">[Pg 9]</span>things that we repress, a goodly area of the +mind is so cut off. Hence, all that part of the +mind which is repressed, and of whose existence +we are not aware, Freud calls <em>the unconscious +mind</em>.</p> + +<p>But since the unconscious is living, not +dead; since every impulse in man seeks constantly +for expression; the unconscious is continually +active, like a volcano. Only, instead +of sending up its fire and lava and steam in +their native state, it is sending them up in a +camouflaged form. The bottled up energy +seeking ever an outlet, loads itself into some +part of the body, and becomes a symptom. +It may appear as a paralysis of some muscle, +as deafness or blindness, heart trouble or stomach +trouble, etc. Naturally, these symptoms +are not organic; it is not a real blindness, a +real paralysis. Which explains why there can +be miracles when believers touch saint’s bones +or repeat the dogmas of the Christian Scientists. +The reason is, that being mental in +origin, these symptoms can also be cured in a +mental way. But since faith healing does not +probe to the secret source of the symptom, +which is in the unconscious, such healing is +usually followed by the outbreak of another +symptom, in a different place, perhaps, and +of a different nature.</p> + +<p>However, the repressed complex does not +only express itself in bodily symptoms. It may +appear in the conscious mind. But since the +conscious mind resists the invasion, it appears +in a masked form. It may become apparent as +a fixed idea, for instance, the idea that one +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_10">[Pg 10]</span>must go to some street corner and preach the +Gospel, an idea which, in spite of its absurdity +and irrationality, the patient cannot dislodge, +and which is therefore fixed. Or it may appear +as a fear, a fear of dogs, or of the dark, +of closed places, going outdoors, etc.</p> + +<p>Nor is this all. Where there is a marked repression +of a large part of oneself, the repressed +material may become what is called a +secondary personality, and every so often preempt +the conscious mind, so that at one time +the personality may be timid, pious, good, and +at another bold, wicked and evil. It is, in a +way, the story of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.</p> + +<p>Finally, the unconscious appears in consciousness +in the form of dreams. It is really +this great discovery which led to the development +of the technic of psycho-analysis, and +opened up the path which has led to all the +other discoveries.</p> + +<p>A dream takes place when we are asleep; +that is to say, when the conscious mind is completely +relaxed, when all the bars are let down. +What more natural than that the repressed portion +of the mind may now flare up, just as the +stars become visible when the sun is withdrawn +from the sky? But dreams usually have +something absurd about them. We walk in +seven league boots, we cut off a hand and sew +it on again, animals talk; we are in the land +of make-believe and of the fairies and the bad +spirits.</p> + +<p>Why does the unconscious speak such a fantastic +language? Why doesn’t it express itself +in simple English? According to Freud, +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_11">[Pg 11]</span>this is because the conscious mind has refused +to face the evil which it has repressed, and the +unconscious therefore ever seeks a masked or +camouflaged expression, whether in the form +of a physical symptom, a fixed idea, a phobia, +or a dream.</p> + +<p>Dreams, in short, are symbolic. Everything +in a dream stands for something else. But +these symbols are not haphazard; what they +stand for are definitely expressed by the symbol. +It is not haphazard for instance that a +dove has always symbolized the holy spirit, or +that a spear has stood for the masculine organ, +or that a vessel has stood for the womb. There +is a certain likeness between symbol and fact.</p> + +<p>It is nothing new to invest dreams with +meaning. The human race has always done +so. Man has always intuitively known that +these strange manifestations of the night held +a hidden meaning for him, a meaning that +must be searched out by interpretation and analysis. +So we read in the Bible of Joseph interpreting +the dreams of Pharaoh; in Euripides’ +play, Iphigenia, the action begins with +a dream of the heroine, which she herself interprets, +though somewhat mistakenly. So +too we have the well-authenticated dream of +Lincoln (ten days before he was assassinated) +that he heard a noise of lamentation and sobbing +downstairs in the White House and took +a candle and went down. Around a catafalque +moved a crowd of weeping people. He asked +who was dead, and was informed that it was +the President, who had been killed.</p> + +<p>Such dreams are of the prophetic order, and +will be dealt with later on. The last dream, +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_12">[Pg 12]</span>also, was straightforward. It was not symbolic. +But such dreams are outside the usual +run; they are the exceptions to the rule.</p> + +<p>The way then to find out the meaning of +a dream is to treat the images in it as symbols +and try to discover what the symbols +stand for. And the quickest way to do this +is to ask the dreamer himself.</p> + +<p>You dream, for instance, to use a simple illustration, +that you are involved in a fight +between a cat and a dog. Well, what do you +think of cats and dogs? What are your associations?</p> + +<p>You begin to tell all the thoughts that come +into your mind when you think of these two +animals. You may drag in personal stories of +a pet cat you once had, of a dog it fought with, +etc. When all you have said is boiled down it +may amount to this: that cats and dogs appear +to be opposites, that cats are aloof, “selfish,” +withdrawn, asking much and giving little, +whereas dogs are loving, affectionate, very sociable, +and may even give their lives for their +masters. Symbolically then, the cat stands for +the ego-impulses, the dog for the social impulses. +It is natural that they should fight +each other every so often; there are times +when we are in great conflict between our +wish to serve others and our desire to gratify +or satisfy ourselves.</p> + +<p>What Freud discovered was that the repression +came to light through the dream; +that the dream material, if analyzed, showed +exactly why the patient was ill, why he had his +phobia or his physical symptom. For instance, +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_13">[Pg 13]</span>the man might have a strain of sexual perversion +in him. He himself is not aware of it. +But the dream immediately brings it to light +and he is forced to recognize it.</p> + +<p>Naturally it is difficult to get a patient to +accept the repressed material. If he repressed +it because of a great moral revulsion, he can +only be led by a process of re-education to +accept it. When he first comes for treatment, +therefore, he merely tells the analyst all that he +remembers about his past, his family and personal +history, etc. Gradually he acquires confidence +in the analyst. This unburdening is +like a confession. The analyst hears things +that the patient has never before mentioned to +anyone else. The analyst, because of his +knowledge of psychology, also shows an understanding +of the patient that quite startles the +latter. The analyst, in short, becomes more +than a father to him, more than a mother. +There is a feeling of gratitude, of trust, which +approaches the border of love. This feeling, +this attitude, is called the <em>transference</em>. The +patient has transferred himself, his burden, +to the analyst. And no cure can take place +until this is achieved.</p> + +<p>For when the transference is made, the patient +is now ready to go along with the analyst +in his re-education. He gains a new +standpoint. He discovers that the ugly and evil +things which he suppressed are not his personal +property, his private depravity, but are +public property, that every one who is a human +being has the same impulses, the same shameful +lusts, the same wicked wishes; and that +there can be no genuine health until one allows +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_14">[Pg 14]</span>these impulses in consciousness and accepts +them in their nakedest aspect.</p> + +<p>The patient then is ready to face squarely +and truthfully the divulgences of his dreams.</p> + +<p>And what is the cure? Sometimes, happily, +it is a simple matter. The man who has suppressed +his sexuality altogether, for instance, +may now marry and gain a good direct expression +for his need. But what of those who +find strong perverted wishes, what shall we +do with them?</p> + +<p>At this point Freud erects the theory of +<em>sublimation</em>. It is not a new theory. The +youth in college is admonished to go into athletics +that he may channel off and use up the +energy which otherwise would provide him +with a sexual problem. It is the substitution +of a “higher” thing for a “lower.” Only, of +course, the higher thing must stand in some +natural relation to the lower, that the instinctive +craving may have some genuine satisfaction.</p> + +<p>The classic example is that of surgery. A +man is sadistic. That is, he desires to practice +cruelty on the object of his love. Turn this +upside-down from something destructive to +something creative, and you let him dig his +knife into the human body, but now it is to +help and heal another, not to hurt him. Hence, +the surgeon is sublimating his sadistic tendencies.</p> + +<p>Another example, according to Freud, is the +artist. His wicked and criminal impulses, we +will say, would indicate a long list of murders +if he lived them out. He does not live them +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_15">[Pg 15]</span>out, he writes them out. He becomes known +as a writer of crime and detective stories, and +in this form he releases his evil energy and +spends it utterly.</p> + +<p>Or take the actor. As a child he wanted +constantly to exhibit himself, to go naked before +others. This strong strain of exhibitionism +can be satisfied finally by acting, by +showing himself off before audiences.</p> + +<p>Hence, the Freudian cure for those impulses +we cannot live, is, first, to recognize and accept +them, and secondly, to sublimate them.</p> + +<p>The Freudian psychology, however, does not +rest at this point. It has a theory which underlies +all the others; it is the theory connected +with the Oedipus complex.</p> + +<p>Oedipus was the man, celebrated in Greek +drama, who, by a fluke of fate, married his +own mother, had children by her, and later +had to expiate his crime by blinding himself +and wandering poor and helpless about the +world. For his crime is the one crime which +mankind has usually found absolutely taboo. +In practically all the savage tribes, and in +every civilized code, incest, or intermarriage between +child and parent, brother and sister, has +been strictly forbidden.</p> + +<p>Why is this so? Freud believes that there +is a natural sexual attraction within the family +group itself, that the child begins its sexual +life very early, that the boy gains satisfactions +through his mother’s caresses; and that hence +the whole beginnings of sexuality are wrapped +up in the incestuous wish. Naturally, however, +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_16">[Pg 16]</span>for the son there is a great rival. It is his +father. His father would fight him off just +as he would any other male rival. This is one +of the reasons for the universal taboo.</p> + +<p>But if the origins and beginnings of sexuality +are entwined in the incestuous wish, and +incest is taboo, we have an immediate cause +of trouble in human nature. We are all bound +to repress. And indeed if we look upon man, +we see that he is afflicted with much sickness, +that he is born to trouble as the sparks fly +upward.</p> + +<p>If, however, this is the nuclear complex, this +Oedipus complex, how can we account for the +other sexual difficulties, the perversions? They +originate, according to Freud, in the Oedipus +complex itself. The child’s first act is suckling, +this involves the mouth; he then learns +to suck his finger when he cannot get at the +nipple, this involves mouth and hand; he then +begins to use his hand rubbing himself and +this leads to rubbing the sexual organ (auto-erotism); +he now takes pleasure in his own +body and in bodies like his own (<ins id="cor_16" title="Transcriber's Note: original text - homo-sexual">homosexual</ins> +interest), and finally he becomes interested in +bodies unlike his own (normal sexual wish). +He may find, however, that he cannot cross +the last bridge and get to normal sexuality. +The repressed incest wish stands in the way +and makes him fear the woman who would, unconsciously, +be used as a substitute for the +mother. Hence, he remains fixed at some infantile +stage; mouth-erotism, auto-erotism, +homosexuality, etc. Often in analysis, when +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_17">[Pg 17]</span>he discovers this, according to Freud, he can +learn to renounce the infantile fixation, or +perversion, and learn to take pleasure in normal +sexuality.</p> + +<p>Such, in brief, and with, alas, much omitted, +is an outline of the Freudian theory. It is a +sexual theory. The psychological troubles of +mankind, with all their symptoms, either physical +or mental, are traced back to a disturbance +in sexuality, to taboos which bring the individual +into conflict with society and so cause +these unnatural repressions. Freud, however, +does not use the word sexuality in a narrow +sense; he makes it synonymous with love-life, +though the purely sexual element is, on +close examination, always present.</p> + +<p>However, recently, Freud, now an old man, +has advanced a new theory to supplement the +sexual theory. He believes, though he is very +cautious in his statement, that beside the +sexual impulse, the will-to-live, to create and +procreate, there is an opposite impulse, a will-to-death, +a wish to have done. In this, he pays +an unconscious tribute to some of the theories +of Jung, which will be discussed later on.</p> + + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> +<div class="chapter"> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_18">[Pg 18]</span></p> + + + <h3 class="nobreak" id="III"> + III. + <br> + WILL-TO-POWER. + </h3> +</div> + + +<p>Alfred Adler was a pupil of Freud. In the +course of his <ins id="cor_18" title="Transcriber's Note: original text - psychoanalytic">psycho-analytic</ins> practice he stumbled +across a discovery which led to a break +with Freud and the enunciation of a new +theory. In contradistinction to the sexual +theory it may be called the power-theory.</p> + +<p>What Adler noticed in every neurotic was +a marked feeling of inferiority, a feeling, as +he put it, of being <em>under</em>, and a consequent +incessant striving to be <em>over</em> or on top. To use +a simple, concrete case: If a man felt inferior +to the woman he loved, and this was a symptom +of inferiority he had always had toward the +women he loved, he would strive by every +means to put the woman down and himself +up. He might put her down by economic pressure, +by intellectual attack; or he might put +her down in the sexual way, for instance +through cruelty (sadism).</p> + +<p>In the latter case, Freud would say that +the problem was sexual. But Adler would say, +what the man is striving for is not sexual satisfaction, +but power. If he could put the woman +down through money-pressure, that would satisfy +him, or if he could put her down sexually, +that would be satisfactory. What he was seeking +was mastery.</p> + +<p>Take the well-known case of the Don Juan +who has one love-affair after another, who wins +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_19">[Pg 19]</span>a woman only to tire of her and pass on to +the next. Such men will admit, as a rule, that +the greatest pleasure is in conquest, and that +when a woman has been conquered she is no +longer interesting. They look upon love-affairs +as a series of battles, and the aim is not love +or sexuality, so much as triumph.</p> + +<p>What becomes then of the Oedipus complex, +the incestuous longing of the son for the +mother? According to Adler this, too, is a +problem of power. The father is the head of +the house, the master, the king in the realm +of the family, and possesses the mother. The +son is under the father, but would depose this +king and take his place. In short, he would +be the head and possess the mother. But actually, +what the child is seeking, is not really +to possess the mother, but to have power in the +manner of his father.</p> + +<p>The cause, then, of mental disorders and +spiritual maladies, Adler traces to an excessive +feeling of inferiority which leads to a +marked will-to-power. But whence arises this +feeling of inferiority? Adler at this point is +sure that the origin is to be sought not in +something psychic but in something physical. +His theory is that the feeling of inferiority is +due to some <em>actual organic inferiority</em>.</p> + +<p>In other words, he believes that a child who +has a club foot, like Byron, or one subject to +epileptic fits, like Dostoyevski, or one with an +impediment which causes stammering, like +Demosthenes, or one with a chronic tendency +to constipation like Lincoln (the cases of great +men could be multiplied endlessly), that such +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_20">[Pg 20]</span>a child feels himself inferior to normal children; +he feels that there is something the matter +with him, that he has less chance of success, +etc. This is the feeling of inferiority, the +feeling of being under. And the deeper this +feeling, the greater the reaction to it, the +greater the striving to change the position +about, so that instead of being under his fellows +he is over them. Out of such defects, +then, arise the great ambitions, or as Adler +puts it, the “guiding fiction.” By this he +means a phantasy of some great goal which +the child dreams about and sets out to reach.</p> + +<p>A classical case is that of Demosthenes. +Because he stammered, because he was inferior +in speech to other children, an ambition awoke +not merely to be able to talk in the normal +manner, but something far greater: namely, +to be the greatest of orators, an ambition he +actually achieved. But suppose he could not +have achieved such a victory, suppose conditions +had been such that it was impossible +for him to be an orator? Then his incessant +striving would prove futile, the feeling of inferiority +would increase, and there would be +a breakdown. The breakdown would be a +neurosis, and he would be ready for a psycho-analyst.</p> + +<p>Why did Napoleon set out to conquer +Europe? His inordinate will-to-power could +be traced back to a painful feeling of inferiority +in his youth, which showed itself in the +military school, where he was put to shame +by his fellows. They, he must have felt, would +become in time great generals and leaders in +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_21">[Pg 21]</span>the army; hence, he must be even more than +they, the general of generals.</p> + +<p>As to the feeling of inferiority itself, Adler +denotes it as the feeling of being <em>feminine</em>. +Woman, he believes, has the psychology of being +under, man that of being over, as shown +in the sexual act itself. Besides, man is physically +stronger than woman. Hence, if a man +has an organic inferiority, he feels that he is +not a man, and hence, that he is in some way +feminine. All his striving therefore is to be +masculine, and indeed, super-masculine. This +striving Adler calls <em>the masculine protest</em>. +One finds it in women also; a marked feeling +of inferiority in a woman leading her to strive +to be like a man, and a refusal to accept her +own psychology.</p> + +<p>Such, in brief, is the Adler theory. It owes +many things to Nietzsche, who, in his “Thus +Spake Zarathustra” teaches will-to-power as the +guiding principle of life, who relegates woman +to a lesser, man to a greater sphere, and who +finds in the striving of the ego the dominant +impulse of life.</p> + + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> +<div class="chapter"> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_22">[Pg 22]</span></p> + + + <h3 class="nobreak" id="IV"> + IV. + <br> + THE BREAK BETWEEN FREUD AND JUNG. + </h3> +</div> + + +<p>At the time that Dr. Freud was making his +discoveries in Vienna, Dr. Carl Jung, a young +psychiatrist, was conducting certain experiments +in Zurich, Switzerland. These were of +a dry technical nature which need not be given +here, but they led to a tentative theory of an +unconscious mind. It was while he was engaged +on these experiments that Jung first +read the work of Freud. He knew at once +that he had found his master and hastened to +become Freud’s pupil and colleague. He did +more than that. At that period Freud was the +laughing stock of Vienna, and wherever his +work penetrated. He was jeered and ridiculed +for his fantastic notions, and was suffering +the bitter fate of all pioneers. Jung was in a +powerful position at Zurich, and at once proceeded +to enlarge and deepen the fight for +Freud. He became the most powerful exponent +of the Freudian psychology, and helped to +bring the new knowledge and new technic into +its first acceptance by the world.</p> + +<p>Freud looked upon Jung as upon a favorite +son. They fought shoulder-to-shoulder, the +work spread, and they were invited to this +country to give lectures. In Switzerland, Austria, +England and America the psycho-analyst +made his appearance, and the world of the intelligentsia +awoke with a shock to the sexual +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_23">[Pg 23]</span>theory. Among the cultured everywhere there +was discussion of the Oedipus complex, the repressions, +the sexual perversions, the idea that +much that we had thought purely spiritual, +like art and religion, were merely masks for +sexual complexes. The psycho-analytic movement, +held firmly together by two great men, +was forging ahead.</p> + +<p>However, Jung, from his continued analysis +of patients, and from his own experiences, was +beginning to form doubts in his own mind. +There was something, he began to think, inadequate +in Freud’s theory. He hardly dared, +at this time, to make any formal criticism; but +finally, after a great conflict, he was moved, +even inspired, to write his first great book. +This book is entitled “The Psychology of the +Unconscious.”</p> + +<p>He has said of it that it was a voyage of +discovery. He himself, when he started it, +hardly knew to what depths it would lead him, +to what conclusions it would force him. But +when he was finished, he knew that he could +no longer withhold his own point of view and +that this would inevitably lead to a break +with Freud.</p> + +<p>It proved to be so. Freud was shocked and +appalled. He sent the manuscript back with +a letter in which their relationship was ended. +He said that Jung had betrayed the psycho-analytic +movement, that he had ventured out +beyond the bounds of science, and that he was +seeking to destroy the greatest values in the +new psychology.</p> + +<p>Of course such a break was inevitable, and +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_24">[Pg 24]</span>in the end it proved fortunate. It set Jung +free. He could now go on, without hindrance, +in his great task, which led finally to the +greatest contributions thus far made.</p> + +<p>The break itself may be traced to a divergence +between two theories of the unconscious. +As will be remembered, Freud’s theory would +define the unconscious as something which is +produced after we are born, and when the repressions +begin. All that is anti-social, that +flies in the face of conventional morality and +the law of the land, everything that is taboo, +gets walled off from the conscious mind, and +is henceforth the unconscious mind. The unconscious +then is a storehouse of the evil, the +thwarted, the unconventional, the instinctive.</p> + +<p>Jung does not deny that a <em>part</em> of the unconscious +is exactly of this nature. But in +“The Psychology of the Unconscious” he proceeds +to prove, by a wealth of material and a +sureness of analysis, that the unconscious is +something far deeper and greater than merely +a personal bag of discards.</p> + +<p>He finds in numerous typical dreams and +phantasies of his patients that they reproduce +symbols and stories as old as the human race. +He shows that the human mind everywhere, +among the most widely scattered peoples, and +in different ages, produces the same typical +myths, the same figures of deities and demons; +and that the patient of today gives +forth, in analysis, a similar mythology; and +very often something which he, the patient, +has been utterly ignorant of and which is beyond +his understanding.</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_25">[Pg 25]</span></p> + +<p>He finds further that man has always had +what might be called a typical psychological +fate; that the story of man’s inner life and development +has always taken a certain form, +embodied in the figure of the hero. The hero, +in the myth, is always he who goes forth to +conquer greatly, who overcomes dragons and +supernatural powers, but who finally loses his +power, is subjugated and dies an inner death. +But out of this death he is reborn and appears +with a new life, often magical, by which +he goes on to his greater achievements.</p> + +<p>Such a death and rebirth is pictured in the +story of the crucifixion of Jesus. It appears +in a modern work, in “Jean-Christophe,” +where the hero suffers a spiritual disintegration +and can no longer compose music, but +with the first breath of Spring, feels the new +tides of life pouring into him and rises to the +greatest heights of his creative power. Such, +too, is doubtless the inner story of our greatest +American poet, Walt Whitman. When he was +about 35, and after suffering some deep personal +reverse, he secluded himself on Long +Island beside the sea for some weeks, and +had a spiritual experience which led to his +awakening as a poet and the beginning of +“Leaves of Grass.”</p> + +<p>What is this typical myth? It is known as +the sun-myth, for the savage doubtless based +it on the strange fact that the sun, after setting +in the west, rose again the following +morning in the east. This sun-myth, boiled +down to its essentials, is somewhat as follows: +The sun is the hero. He is born of the mother, +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_26">[Pg 26]</span>the sea, in the east. He rises in his splendor +and reaches the zenith. But now his strange +descent begins, and when he reaches the west, +he must re-descend into the waters of the sea, +die again and re-enter the mother’s womb. +Actually he is pictured as being devoured by +a sea monster. In the belly of this monster +he rides in the sea under the earth back toward +the east. At first he lies supine; but finally, +plucking up courage he begins to battle with +the monster. Finally he kills him, and the +body of the great fish floats to shore, where the +hero, the sun, steps out reborn, and rises again +in the east.</p> + +<p>This story, based on something seen in nature, +is found to be typical of man’s soul. And +Jung discovered that wherever an analysis was +carried far enough, this typical myth appeared +in various forms in the dreams of the patient, +and the patient went through an experience +analogous to the myth.</p> + +<p>What is this experience? A man has reached +a high point of development and achievements. +There comes upon him now a sense of deadness +and futility, a period of disillusionment and +turning away from the world, the experience +which is described in the beginning of Goethe’s +“Faust.” This inner death proceeds until he +is lost in himself, until he is, in the language +of the myth, devoured by the monster; and +now he goes through a long period of inner +suffering and groping until the time comes +when a new life awakens and he goes back +to the world of men with a greater energy, a +new vision, and perhaps a new life-task. So, +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_27">[Pg 27]</span>in the beginning of Nietzsche’s “Thus Spake +Zarathustra,” we see the hero step forth after +his years of preparation in the wilderness to +bring his message to the world of men.</p> + +<p>This then is the typical experience of those +who carry their development to any height. +What is its meaning psychologically?</p> + +<p>There is no understanding of it, says Jung, +unless we broaden the conception of the unconscious. +And with this he introduces his +theory of the <em>collective unconscious</em>.</p> + +<p>The human body is the product of millions +of years of evolution, and in it is written the +history of life. It is not a sudden creation. If +this is true of the body, how can it be anything +but true of the mind, which is a function +of the body? The mind, too, is a product +of millions of years of evolution, and just as +the history of life is written in the flesh, so +too the history of man’s spirit, his adventure, +is summed up in the mind. In other words, +the new born babe does not present a mind +like a blank sheet of paper on which his personal +experience will begin to write; he is +born with the great inheritance of the race, +the collective unconscious, in which is stored +the wisdom of the ages as well as the great +instincts, and what Jung calls “the residues of +our animal ancestry.”</p> + +<p>How do we know this? Because the mind +of a man today, a man even ignorant and unread, +will, on certain occasions, produce the +same myths, the same supernatural figures, +the same psychic phenomena as those produced +thousands of years ago, and the same +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_28">[Pg 28]</span>in every part of the earth among the most +widely separated nations and races.</p> + +<p>In short, the unconscious contains typical +<em>images</em> and typical <em>stories</em>. And whence did +these arise? It is quite natural that the presence +in our own unconscious of a wisdom +greater than ours and at the same time of +animal instincts sometimes overwhelming in +their destructiveness, should give the savage, +for instance, a sense of the nearness of supernatural +powers of good and evil, of some supernatural +wisdom that helped him (in the form +of revelation or inspiration) and of some demonic +lust or passion, which, if it swept over +him, led to the orgy, the murder or insanity. +Hence, these experiences would be pictured as +the work of beings like those he knew, only +greater. Wisdom was a Great Mother or a +Great Father, a God, in short; evil was a Devil, +a Demon, like a bad man, only greater and +worse. And certain experiences would be pictured +in the form of monsters, great strange +animals, sometimes animals part human and +part beast.</p> + +<p>Thus we see an explanation for the origin +of the many religions on earth, all of which +have certain things in common. Some sensitive +man experienced his own unconscious in +the form of dreams and hallucinations. Moses +for instance heard the voice of God and saw +the burning bush. Psychologically, this would +mean that what Moses thought was outside +himself, came from within himself, came from +the unconscious and was, in the technical language, +<em>projected</em>, the vision of fire upon the +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_29">[Pg 29]</span>bush, the voice into the air. He heard and +saw something out of his own depths.</p> + +<p>Every religion makes this projection. +Heaven is up in the sky, hell under the earth; +the Gods are on high, the Devils below. It +has remained for modern psychology not only +to locate these phenomena as in the brain +itself, but also to divest them of their miraculous +coating, and to explain them as something +having a direct meaning in the patient’s life.</p> + +<p>According to Jung, the collective unconscious +is more or less dormant in all of us, except under +certain circumstances or after certain experiences. +The average man goes on unaware +of his own demonic and divine attributes. But +in a lynching-bee or in battle the devil will +suddenly awake and transform him from something +human into something monstrous. On +the other hand, the youth falling headlong in +love, the man who sustains the death of his +loved one and similar great experiences of +life, will encounter the presence of ineffable +wisdom and power, so that he feels he is visited +by something beyond the human.</p> + +<p>But the process of analysis also leads to the +experience of the collective unconscious. +Psycho-analysis is self-discovery. One goes +deeper and deeper into oneself. One goes back +on the track of the years to one’s childhood. +One exhausts in the process one’s personal +memories. One goes down, as it were, beyond +the personal layers of the unconscious, to the +impersonal. At this point the manifestations +of the collective unconscious begin, and the +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_30">[Pg 30]</span>dreams are now loaded with mythological conceptions, +and images of the supernatural.</p> + +<p>This deep entering into oneself Jung defines +as <em>introversion</em>, a self descent, and a means of +development, a discipline not only in the wisdom +of all time, but in overcoming the undeveloped +tendencies in oneself. It is at this +point that the hero is devoured by the monster, +the unconscious, and makes that voyage +that leads to his rebirth.</p> + +<p>Dante depicts this in his Divine Comedy. +The hero, Dante, is led by Virgil, down through +the depth of Inferno (the evil side of the unconscious), +up the mount of Purgatory (the +overcoming) and finally reaches Paradise, +where he finds Beatrice, an image of his soul, +and a new wisdom, a new life are his.</p> + +<p>Naturally one cannot do justice to so deep +a conception within the space allotted. But +we can see at a glance that much that is otherwise +inexplicable, save on the ground of something +miraculous and supernatural, is now +given a more natural explanation. We can +understand the genius as one who has the gift +of tapping his unconscious and bringing forth +works which are impossible to the run of men. +We can understand why man has always +needed a religion. We can understand those +intuitions which lead to new discoveries in +science. Man has a storehouse of wisdom in +himself.</p> + +<p>We can also understand the strange aberrations +of insanity, of those unfortunates who +are caught, as it were, in the collective unconscious, +and live only in a world of demons +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_31">[Pg 31]</span>and divinities and uncanny myths. We can +understand too the demonic outbreaks in war, +and the cause of many crimes. I know of the +case of a man who was a clergyman, and who, +each time he had finished an impassioned sermon +which passed through the audience like a +rousing electricity, immediately went to a +brothel and indulged in an orgy of drink and +sexuality. He was a man under the complete +dominance of the collective unconscious. First +the divine side appeared, with its marvelous +inspirations; then the demonic, dragging him +in the mud.</p> + +<p>It must not be thought, from the foregoing, +that Jung rejected the sexual theory of Freud. +What he did was to modify this theory, holding +that not all cases of neurosis registered +sexual repression or maladjustment. He fully +agreed however, that the Oedipus complex appears +as one of the great problems, but instead +of interpreting dreams of this nature to mean +that the son actually had incestuous longings +for the mother, he took such dreams, like all +others, to be symbolic. If a man dreams that +a monster devours him, it does not mean that +he is literally eaten by a large animal. It +means that he has made a deep introversion. +So too a dream of incest means that the son +has reunited himself with the mother. But +what does the mother mean? She may symbolize +that period of his life when he actually +was united with her spiritually, the time of +early childhood, a time when he was irresponsible, +taken care of, sheltered, helped. His +dream may mean then that he longs to be like +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_32">[Pg 32]</span>a child again; he longs to escape from the +hardships of adaptation and his present problems.</p> + +<p>On the other hand the mother may have a +deeper meaning. She may appear with a supernatural +air about her, and stand for the +collective unconscious itself, which is the +source (or mother) of our conscious life. The +longing of the son for the mother, from this +standpoint, is the longing for descent into self, +for deep introversion. It has the meaning of +the sun-myth where the setting sun is devoured +by the monster and starts on his journey +toward rebirth.</p> + +<p>Since there is great danger in the withdrawal +from life, in an introversion that in a +way shuts one in oneself, whether one does +this as an escape from responsibility or from a +longing for self-development, it is natural that +the myth should represent this incest-longing +as taboo, as forbidden, just as real incest is, +and that it is only the hero who can overcome +this taboo and make that great descent which +Dante pictures in his Inferno, and which in +Faust is shown as the perilous descent to the +Mothers.</p> + + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> +<div class="chapter"> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_33">[Pg 33]</span></p> + + + <h3 class="nobreak" id="V"> + V. + <br> + THE INTROVERT VS. THE EXTRAVERT. + </h3> +</div> + + +<p>If the reader has compared Freud’s sexual +theory with Adler’s power theory, he must have +been struck by the fact that <em>both theories sound +plausible</em>. It is certainly true that the conventional +morality of civilization causes us to +suppress certain instinctive desires. If a man +is by nature polygamous, and is taught the +ideal of monogamy in such a way as to believe +that even the thought of illicit love is a sin, it +is reasonable to think that he may repress his +polygamous tendencies, thus paving the way +for an unconscious conflict and a neurosis.</p> + +<p>But, on the other hand, who has not, at least +at times, had the painful feeling of inferiority +and not been stirred by an ambition to get on +top? What seems more natural than that the +stammerer, Demosthenes, should strive to +achieve greatness as an orator, or that a club-footed +Byron should attempt to make himself +a conqueror of women and a famous poet? Certainly +the struggle for power is as widespread +and clearly discernible in life as the instinctive +drive for sexuality and a full love-life.</p> + +<p>It is at this point that the greatness of Jung +emerges. He had, in the course of his investigations, +come upon a startling divergence of +reaction among his patients, so that he was +forced to conclude that there were two kinds +of human being, as different, if not more different, +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_34">[Pg 34]</span>from each other, than the two sexes. +These two types he named the <em>extravert</em> and +the <em>introvert</em>.</p> + +<p>He next discovered that these two types had +long been noted by men of genius under such +designations as objective and subjective, romantic +and classical, realistic and idealistic, +materialistic and spiritual. William James +called them the tough-minded and the tender-minded. +William Blake, the English poet, said +of them:</p> + +<p>“There are two classes of men: the <em>prolific</em> +and the <em>devouring</em>. Religion is an endeavor to +reconcile the two.”</p> + +<p>Jung interprets prolific here to mean, “the +fruitful, who brings forth out of himself”; and +“the devouring, as the man who swallows up +and takes into himself.”</p> + +<p>Needless to say the prolific type, which has +appeared under the designations of the objective, +romantic, realistic, materialistic and +tough-minded, is, more exactly defined, the extravert, +and the devouring type which was also +called the subjective, classical, idealistic, spiritual +and tender-minded, is the introvert.</p> + +<p>What characterizes the extravert is that <em>his +interest is normally centered on things outside +himself</em>. An excellent example was our own +Theodore Roosevelt. He was thoroughly extraverted, +with instant response to the world +about him. His attention was given wholeheartedly +to anything that caught it. He was +a man with an immense diversity of interests, +from birds and flowers, to simplified spelling, +from a local political fight to an international +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_35">[Pg 35]</span>war; poetry, Greek coins, history, hunting, +sports, finance,—the list was almost endless. +And into each of these interests he could throw +himself full force, and with astonishing power. +He was as interested in men as in things, and +his friends included people from every walk of +life. He was well adapted to life, and made +himself at home almost anywhere. What characterized +him chiefly was that he gave himself +without stint, went into action at a moment’s +notice, had a tendency to practicality and common +sense which kept him from being an extremist; +was, in short, an excellent opportunist, +knowing, very often, just when to strike, just +what to say, with a decisiveness that won +through. He was the fighting man, the man +of action, the man of his own time, his own +age, his own country.</p> + +<p>He was, in other words, a man “orientated +by the object.” That is to say, his life was determined +by things and thoughts and ideas +coming to him from the <em>outside</em>, in the main. +If an enemy showed his head, he struck; if a +friend, he clasped hands; if a popular movement +appeared, he led it; if there was a war +he wanted to be in it; if someone else originated +a good idea (not too radical) he took it +over and made it his.</p> + +<p>It will be seen from this that the extravert is +normally a man who is a harmonious part of +the world <em>as it is</em>. This does not mean, of +course, that he will be merely a conservative; +for the world is in constant change, and an +intelligent extravert will be one-to-one with the +forward tide. But since he is, to a large extent, +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_36">[Pg 36]</span>bound up in the things outside himself, +he is, mainly, a reflection of the world. He +could almost say of himself, “I am—what I +love.”</p> + +<p>His shortcomings are obvious. He covers a +lot of ground, but necessarily in a shallow way. +He cannot be deep, because depth implies a +certain slowness, a certain amount of meditation +and constant study, a brooding and solitude. +He originates but little, for it is the +thoughts and ideas of others which interest +him. He is an enemy to anything really new, +anything pregnant with the future, because it +collides with the world as it is, which is the +world he loves. Finally, he lacks an inner life, +the more creative and profound life; a fact +which the keen-sighted Roosevelt knew very +well, for he said of himself, “My danger is that +I forget I have a soul.”</p> + +<p>Such is a brief sketch of the extravert as +he appears in a pronounced, perhaps an extreme +form. The value of using an extreme case is, +of course, that he covers the whole territory, +and we can see in him the various sides of the +type. Hence, it will be valuable to consider +an extreme introvert, the direct opposite of +Roosevelt, so that we may come to an understanding +of the contrasting type.</p> + +<p>If the extravert is characterized by the fact +that his interest is normally centered in things +outside himself, the introvert is characterized +by the fact that his interest is normally centered +on things <em>inside</em> himself. From the extravert’s +standpoint this would mean that the +introvert was a man who thought of nothing +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_37">[Pg 37]</span>but himself, was consumed with his own aches +and pains, his own fears and hopes, and perhaps +certain erratic and absurd or dangerous +ideas. For everything that the extravert holds +most dear, as action, fitting in, being a “good +fellow,” getting on, the introvert looks upon +as rather shallow and cheap, and vice versa, +everything most valuable to the introvert seems +foolish, absurd, ridiculous, dangerous to the extravert.</p> + +<p>Naturally, to be interested in the things inside +oneself need not be anything trivial. +Within oneself is the world of thought and +ideas, the world of imagination, the world out +of which every art, every religion, every philosophy, +every invention, every fresh discovery of +science, every new idea for the advancement +and development of the race has sprung. Kant, +oblivious of the world, sat and brooded, until +out of himself sprang a great philosophy which +wrought a change in the mind of Europe. A +Jesus from his solitary brooding brings forth a +new religion. A Michaelangelo in his isolation +gives birth to colossal art.</p> + +<p>We find in Friedrich Nietzsche an example +of the extreme introvert. His life, like those +of most introverts who were extreme, was devoid +of action and hence without history. There +is very little to say about it, for the real drama +took place within him. He served for a short +time in a war, but was discharged because of +sickness. He taught philology for a time in a +university. But finally, on a small income, he +retired, and led a secluded life, producing his +works, until, while still in the prime of life, +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_38">[Pg 38]</span>he became insane. He did not marry; he had +but few friends; he was a solitary.</p> + +<p>Where Roosevelt presents the picture of a +man at home in the world, Nietzsche is seen as +a stranger in it, an alien. Where Roosevelt +went straight out and acted, Nietzsche withdrew +into his shell. Where Roosevelt forgot +himself in others, in causes, in the glamour and +absorption of <em>things</em>, Nietzsche remained in a +state of <em>acute self-consciousness</em>. A Roosevelt +glories in the world and thinks it is good and +the people in it excellent and interesting; a +Nietzsche sees it as full of horrible and terrible +things and is filled with revulsion at the sight +of human cowardice, slothfulness and depravity. +Where a Roosevelt spreads himself all over, interested +in a multitude of objects, a Nietzsche +concentrates more and more on a few things, +a few ideas, a life which shuts out as much as +possible anything that will disturb his predetermined +path.</p> + +<p>This is the normal attitude of the introvert. +He is ill adapted to the outer world, because +he is absorbed in the inner world. And this +absorption leads, in the case of a Nietzsche, to +great discoveries and great works.</p> + +<p>If we remember Jung’s conception of the collective +unconscious as the summation of the +past, the storehouse of wisdom, the creative +source, we may readily understand that the collective +unconscious is the psychic stream of +life itself and that it not only bears the past +in it, but also the budding future. That which +is to be lies creatively within it, and is revealed +to the great artist, the great thinker +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_39">[Pg 39]</span>in majestic symbols and so-called visions. That +is why we say that great art and great thought +are always ahead of the world. For the extreme +introvert, absorbed in himself, lives in +that world of imagination where the products +of the collective unconscious become known to +him. He has deep intuitions, he actually may +have symbols and ideas presented to him in +dream and phantasy, even in hallucination. The +English mystic, Blake, actually saw the forms +and shapes which he drew, and claimed, also, +that some of his poems were dictated to him +by a voice. I have already spoken of Moses’ +experience with the burning bush and the voice +of God.</p> + +<p>It was quite natural therefore that Nietzsche +should have been a forerunner. Out of his +years of solitude there came at last an eruption +from the unconscious which was nothing short +of amazing. Each part of Thus Spake Zarathustra, +and each part is about a hundred pages +long, was written in ten days. The thoughts +and words came so fast that Nietzsche could +not keep up with them. If he was walking, +he had to write on scraps of paper. The experience +was so overwhelming that he compared +it with that of the Biblical prophets, and +said that not in two thousand years had there +been another such case of inspiration.</p> + +<p>What is Thus Spake Zarathustra? It is an +incomparable picture of the collective unconscious, +as Jung points out, and foreshadows the +new psychology, which by the slow, painfully +cumulative method of science has come to some +of the same discoveries that Nietzsche grasped +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_40">[Pg 40]</span>intuitively. It also is an indictment of Christian +civilization and foreshadows its breaking +up by the erection of a new principle, the Anti-Christ, +the principle of power.</p> + +<p>It is, therefore, a revolutionary document, so +far in advance of the time when it was written +that Nietzsche dared to show it only to seven +people, most of whom rejected it. He felt that +he was in utter isolation, a “voice crying in the +wilderness.”</p> + +<p>What Nietzsche celebrates (as shown in the +section on Adler) is <em>will-to-power</em>. The doctrine +of Christianity is love, and the rule of +love has certain implications. It means that +everyone is included, for in the eyes of love +the object is always valuable. To a loving +mother the child who is an idiot is as precious +(if not more so) than his more normal brothers +and sisters. She loves him: that gives him +value. Hence the rule of love means equality, +fraternity, democracy. It leads to the idea of +the greatest good for the greatest number. It +leads, in short, to the idea of numbers; the +rule of the many.</p> + +<p>Its dangers are obvious. Everything new, +original, different is pulled down to the common +level. It breeds the spirit of conformity, +and finally eventuates in the Babbitts, the +ideals of Main Street, the formation of Ku +Klux Klans. Such are the final fruits of a +rampant rule of love. If your neighbors are +as valuable (really more valuable) than yourself +(for love always places the object above +oneself) then you should submit to your +neighbors, live and do as they live and do, +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_41">[Pg 41]</span>and give up your own individual path, your +own way, and anything original or new that +may be created by you.</p> + +<p>It is against this that Nietzsche comes with +a voice which is far deeper than a personal +voice. It is the protest of the collective unconscious +itself; it is a deep racial movement +against a violation of man’s own future. +Hence, Nietzsche sets the individual against the +race; he raises an aristocratic ideal against the +democratic; he celebrates new values, original +things, the exceptional and the different. As +against love, he rears the doctrine of power. +And by power he means the setting of oneself +against the race, and the triumph of oneself, +for in this triumph, the new is born, the new +art, new idea, new thinking, and the race is +forced into new paths of greatness.</p> + +<p>But, seen in another light, the meaning of +Zarathustra is the <em>revolt of the introvert +against the extravert</em>.</p> + +<p>Western civilization is the civilization of +the extravert. A civilization built up on the +principle of love is one which puts the accent +on others, on things outside ourself. As the +saying goes, it takes two to love; there is always +the other, and that other is more important +than oneself, if it is really love. Hence, +love is the root of the extraverted attitude. +As I said of Roosevelt, he might have put it +of himself: “I am—what I love.”</p> + +<p>Such a civilization, therefore, tends toward +action, democracy, the rule of the many, invention, +business (the exchange between people), +and since the power of a civilization over +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_42">[Pg 42]</span>the individual is almost overwhelming, it +means that a Christian civilization has +thwarted, twisted, deformed all those whose +natures were not in accord with it. Christianity +has been a violation of the introvert.</p> + +<p>For, naturally, what Nietzsche depicts in his +superman and his will-to-power, is himself. +He depicts the psychology of the introvert. +The introvert is governed by the power principle. +Where the extravert finds relief, and +only functions happily, by losing himself in +others, by giving himself to the world outside +him; the introvert finds relief only by remembering +himself, by refusing to allow others to +absorb him, by withdrawing from the outer +world. The introvert is constantly striving to +preserve the integrity of his ego. He seeks an +inner freedom. He feels bound by the demands +of others. Action takes him away from +the stream of his ideas, his inner brooding, +and he will not have much of it. Serving others +often seems to him a shallow thing, a waste of +time, compared with the great discovery he +is tracking, or the art he is aiming to achieve.</p> + +<p>Power vs. love—introvert vs. extravert.</p> + +<p>And how is it that two such dissimilar human +beings appear in the same world? We +have only to go back to the root-instincts in +man to come to some sort of understanding. +As we know, the two great instincts are that +of self-preservation and that of race-preservation. +Self-preservation leads us to think of +ourselves, to turn the eye inward. It is selfish, +hence, it is power, not love. Race-preservation +leads us to think of others, of wife and family, +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_43">[Pg 43]</span>of neighbors, of the world, to turn the eye outward. +It concerns interest in others; hence, +it is more love than power.</p> + +<p>The symbol of self-preservation is eating, devouring +(we eat just for ourselves); the symbol +of race-preservation is sexuality (the motive +in sexuality is, unconsciously, to beget offspring).</p> + +<p>One sees now how this discovery of the types +by Jung settles the question as to the puzzling +opposition between the theories of Freud and +Adler.</p> + +<p>Freud’s theory is the sexual, Adler’s the will-to-power. +In other words, as Jung has pointed +out, Freud is an extravert, and his theory reflects +himself; Adler is an introvert, and his +theory is typical of his type.</p> + +<p>Both theories are, in a sense, true; only we +must never apply the Freudian theory to an +introvert, nor the Adler theory to an extravert.</p> + +<p>It will be seen now how the theory of the +collective unconscious includes both the theory +of Freud and the theory of Adler and transcends +them both. In the collective unconscious +are both the summed up wisdom of the race +with its creative forward push and also the +instincts. The roots of both ego and sex are to +be found there, flowering in one individual +more along the ego path, in another more along +the sex path.</p> + +<p>The trouble with both Freud and Adler, according +to Jung, is that they stop at this point. +Their theories are <em>reductive</em>. The one reduces +human nature back to sex, the other to power. +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_44">[Pg 44]</span>We are <em>nothing but</em>—this or that. But, actually, +we are also all we have experienced, and +not only that, but also all the race has experienced. +We are also creative. We cannot explain +man only in terms of the past, in the +things from which he originated (finally, the +instincts), we must also explain him in terms +of the future, his possibilities, the new life +he is seeking, the greatness which is to be.</p> + +<p>In short, we cannot cure a neurosis merely +by explaining to a man that he has an Oedipus +complex or a homosexual tendency; neither +can we cure him by showing him that he has +an inferiority complex and hence an abnormal +will-to-power. We can only cure him by giving +him a future to live; he must go out and feel +that he has something to live for.</p> + +<p>Just how psycho-analysis arrives at such a +result must be reserved for a later chapter.</p> + + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> +<div class="chapter"> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_45">[Pg 45]</span></p> + + + <h3 class="nobreak" id="VI"> + VI. + <br> + TYPES. + </h3> +</div> + + +<p>In picturing Roosevelt as an extravert and +Nietzsche as an introvert, I did not mean to +imply, of course, that either lacked the opposite +mechanism. All of us are born with both +the sexual-instinct and the ego-instinct, the +gift of love and the will-to-power. However, +because we are loaded more one way than the +other, the one tendency tends to suppress the +other, and the other remains therefore, not +erased, but relatively undeveloped, and shows +itself in inadequate and perhaps twisted expression.</p> + +<p>There was, of course, an extravert in Nietzsche. +But that extravert lived a shadowy life +beside the great introvert, and showed himself +in a clumsy relationship with others, an inadequate +response to the world, an inability to +get along. So too was there an introvert in +Roosevelt, but he was a poor one, with doubtless +strange ideas sometimes breaking forth +into impulsive and wrong-headed action.</p> + +<p>All that we can say is that life forces us to +accept one side more than the other, until we +become, as it were, specialists along the side of +extraversion or of introversion.</p> + +<p>This specialization, of course, makes us one-sided, +and this one-sidedness reaches an even +greater narrowness through a still further specialization, +which is that of <em>function</em>.</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_46">[Pg 46]</span></p> + +<p>According to Jung, the human psyche is composed +of four functions. These are <em>thinking</em>, +<em>feeling</em>, <em>intuition</em> and <em>sensation</em>.</p> + +<p>I do not intend to burden the reader with +explanations of these terms, for we would go +far afield in a maze of technicalities. I will +merely try to give a hint of their meaning.</p> + +<p><em>Thinking</em> is readily recognizable. It is, in +its pure form, an act of will, and it may begin +with an idea, which it proceeds to illustrate +and to prove, or it may begin with many separated +facts and proceeds to bind them together +into a theory or idea.</p> + +<p><em>Feeling</em> is a reaction of like or dislike to an +object. It must not be confused with <em>emotion</em>. +Both thinking and feeling, according to Jung, +are adapted functions; that is, functions which +have developed through the discipline of life, +and which did not exist in their pure forms +when we were born. <em>Emotion</em>, however, is +something allied to our instinctive life and +something we share with the animals. It is +psychologically what Jung calls a feeling-sensation; +that is to say, it is partly physical +and partly mental. We see this clearly when +we find an emotion of shame bringing a blush +to the cheek, or one of fear setting the heart +pounding, or one of joy making the pulses leap. +In each case we were aware of something mental, +sense of joy, fear, etc., and something +physical, heart pounding, cheeks blushing, etc.</p> + +<p>Feeling is separated from sensation and developed +into something by itself. The feeling +person is one who has a highly developed sense +of the values of things registered through reactions +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_47">[Pg 47]</span>of like and dislike. His immediate +liking is not accidental, but due to a high sensitiveness +to the really good qualities of the +object; his disliking is equally a deep and a +true thing.</p> + +<p>If thinking and feeling are conscious functions, +that is, more or less under the direction +of the will (one makes oneself think, one +learns to like and dislike), intuition and sensation +are unconscious functions. There is no +control of them. They simply happen.</p> + +<p><em>Intuition</em> is a sort of instant insight. It has +something of the lightning flash in it. It is a +seeing-into. And this seeing-into may be of +something near or of something far. A man +may have a hunch that a certain horse is going +to win a race; a woman may have an intuition +that her husband, in spite of his protests, has +been untrue to her. Intuitions may also be of +a deeper sort. The intuition of the painter +leads him to paint the soul, the inner life of +the sitter. The intuition of the inventor by a +blinding flash reveals the solution of the problem.</p> + +<p><em>Sensation</em>, according to Jung, is sensing, a +function which transmits a physical stimulus +to perception. We see, hear, feel (contact), +etc. It is our conscious sensing of the world +about us through images, sounds, etc., just as +intuition is an unconscious sensing of the +world about us. Hence, sensation relates more +closely to the physical life, the body, than any +of the other functions.</p> + +<p>Now what Jung maintains, and amply proves +in his great work on Psychological Types, is +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_48">[Pg 48]</span>that each of us is not only either an introvert +or an extravert, but also that each of us <em>develops +one of these four functions at the expense +of the others</em>. There are therefore thinking +types, feeling types, intuitive types and sensational +types, and since any of these types is +also either extraverted or introverted we have +eight types.</p> + +<p>I will merely give a few examples to show +what the types are like:</p> + +<p><em>Extraverted thinking type.</em> A good example +is Darwin. He was a slow, patient thinker; +thinking was most obviously his most highly +developed function; but this function was extraverted. +That is to say, like all extraverts +his attention and interest was in outer things +and the ideas of others. Hence he was one +who built up a theory on observed data, +whether this was a direct study of plants and +animals or in reading the works of others. +His thoughts proceeded from the outside in.</p> + +<p><em>Introverted thinking type.</em> Kant is a good +example. He was a great philosopher. Instead +of proceeding from facts to theory, he +proceeded from ideas to facts. That is to say, +through his introversion, he received ideas +from the unconscious, great ideas of a timeless +nature, conceptions of time, space, etc., +and these he proceeded to elaborate and prove.</p> + +<p><em>Extraverted feeling type.</em> A good example +of this type is Mary Pickford. It is obvious +that she is not a thinker; neither is she one +of those intuitive persons who see into others +and know life deeply. She feels others. She +responds by like and dislike; and by the fitness +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_49">[Pg 49]</span>of things. She is well extraverted and +well adapted.</p> + +<p><em>Introverted feeling type.</em> Eleanore Duse is +an example. She was a great actress; but one +felt her to be one of those silent women whose +feelings are all within, who nurse deep moods, +who cannot express their personal selves, who +have great difficulty in their relationships and +tend, as a rule, to shun the world and live in +seclusion.</p> + +<p>According to Jung thinking is more a masculine +function; both extraverted and introverted +it is found more in men than in women; feeling +is more feminine, and is usually found in +women.</p> + +<p><em>Extraverted intuitive type.</em> Lloyd George, +of England, is of this type. A friend of mine +who met him during the war said that as +soon as Lloyd George looked at him, he felt he +was completely understood, that the statesman +saw through him. His gift has been to +see the tide even before it turned, to see the +possibilities in the people about them, to leap +to his conclusions with a sure agility. If the +thinking and feeling types are more or less +steady, pursuing a definite and logical course, +the intuitive type (and sensational) is changeable, +erratic, swift, fickle. This is due to the +fact that wherever they see a new possibility, +they leap to it, forgetting what they hitherto +pursued.</p> + +<p><em>Introverted intuitive type.</em> An excellent example +is that given in the last chapter, that of +Nietzsche. His intuitions were of the introverted +kind. He saw inwardly, into the unconscious. +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_50">[Pg 50]</span>This type is usually very badly +adapted to the world. It is close to the unconscious, +and its great intuitions of change, +disaster and the new order of the future put +it at variance with society to such an extent +as to make life very difficult. Undoubtedly +such men have always been the great mystics, +the great prophets, as Jung quotes, “the voice +of one crying in the wilderness.”</p> + +<p><em>Extraverted sensation type.</em> We see examples +of this type very often among actors, dancers, +circus people. They are people of a very sensuous +nature, depending more on the sharp stimulus +of sensation than on any other function. +We also see examples among men who are +epicures at eating, spend much of their time +on fine dressing, and who seek sensation for +its own sake, sensuous surroundings, the more +sybaritic forms of sexuality, etc. Among +women we see an inordinate love of luxury, +a theatrical exhibitionism, and self-indulgence +in many forms. Since this type is the least +noble (as the intuitive is the most noble) +examples need not be given.</p> + +<p><em>Introverted sensation type.</em> This is a type extremely +hard to define. I will merely suggest +it. It is probable that the poet Poe was of +this type. He was certainly introverted, but +his work is not marked specifically by deep +thought, by feeling or by intuition. If we consider +his poetry we see that he gives us strange +pictures of a No Man’s Land of the imagination; +and that he senses these imaginative +realms of the dead and the ghostly. We feel a +reality in these dark pictures. But they have +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_51">[Pg 51]</span>no meaning in the way of giving us to understand +life more deeply or leading us to great +ideas or high flights of feeling. What they +do give us is a sense of “out of space, out of +time,” as he himself put it. Introverted sensation +gives us just that. It is a sensing of +the eternal images of the unconscious.</p> + +<p>Such, by a series of swift strokes, are the +eight types. I cannot, of course, in this space, +do full justice to them. They are included in +this survey because they represent an important +element in Jung’s work and serve to +show how dark and deep are the psychological +problems of the race. With eight types (possibly +more) living in the world about us, there +is indeed much room for misunderstanding and +for human conflict.</p> + +<p>It is also obvious that Nietzsche was psychologically +correct when he said that he saw only +fragments of human beings about him, and +nowhere a man. Here he saw an arm, there +a leg, there an eye and here an ear, there +a mouth and here a breast. In short, he saw +a world of specialization, where one man becomes, +like Darwin, a good thinker, but also is +callous to art and to the beauty and joy of +life; and where another develops neither his +thinking nor his insight, but spends his existence +in a vain round of the senses.</p> + +<p>It is no wonder, then, that there is so much +mental sickness. Too great a one-sidedness is +a violation of man’s nature, which is full of +various needs and must, if it develops freely, +live a rounded life. Hence, according to Jung, +the basis of the neurosis is not merely a sexual +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_52">[Pg 52]</span>problem or a problem of power; it is due to +the conflict between the developed and the undeveloped +functions. There comes a time for +the thinker, for instance, when his outraged +feeling life must manifest itself. It is at such +a moment that the neurosis begins.</p> + + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> +<div class="chapter"> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_53">[Pg 53]</span></p> + + + <h3 class="nobreak" id="VII"> + VII. + <br> + THE CONFLICT AND ITS SOLUTION. + </h3> +</div> + + +<p>If we want to put the matter in its broadest +sense, we can say that the great conflict of this +age is between the extraverted attitude and the +introverted, between Christ and Anti-Christ, between +Christianity with its democracy, its insistence +on good works, its life of activity and +service, its concentration, actually, on business, +machinery and getting on, and on the other +hand, the claims of the individual and the demands +of the inner life for an enhancement of +art, of research, of philosophy, of spiritual development, +of freedom.</p> + +<p>It is a conflict between the principle of love +and the principle of power, and naturally, it is +not only an external thing, but something that +takes place in every individual who has made +any sort of high development. For it is a +psychic law that if we carry anything to an extreme, +we meet the opposite.</p> + +<p>This is clearly illustrated in Goethe’s Faust. +The hero, Faust, has carried his introverted +side to a very high development; indeed, so +far, that everything he studied and all that +he knows now appears lifeless and uninteresting. +He is sick of himself, sick of life. It is +all nothing. His search for knowledge has +led nowhere. In the end all that we know is—that +we cannot know. What a pity then that +he has squandered his youth on study and +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_54">[Pg 54]</span>meditation and medicine. A kind of death +comes over him; which means, psychologically, +that he has reached the end of one line of +development, and is preparing himself to +change over to another and new line.</p> + +<p>This soon appears, in the form of a poodle +dog who soon shows himself as the Devil. Both +these symbols are inevitable. A dog, as shown +before, relates to our more extraverted side, +and it is this side for which Faust now longs. +He has reached the end of his development (for +the time being) as an introvert; the longing +that now is awakened is for <em>life</em>—that is, for +youth, activity, sexuality, love, ardent adventure, +etc. Hence, the symbol of the dog as +representing the side of himself he has not +developed. But this really is also the Devil. +That is to say that which is undeveloped is +still in a primitive state, and through its long +repression, bears the aspect of something ugly +and evil. In order, therefore, to reach the +“other side,” in order to begin to live out the +unlived possibilities of his nature, he must sell +himself to the Devil.</p> + +<p>That is to say, that when the undeveloped +side shows itself and takes command, it cannot +be lived unless one is willing to go a path +which may often appear evil and which is in +direct defiance to what one has previously lived +and thought good.</p> + +<p>This selling out to the Devil appears as a +great danger. It means that he will never be +“saved,” never go to heaven. But actually in +the prologue of the play, God allows the Devil +to make this compact with Faust because the +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_55">[Pg 55]</span>Devil is “a part of that power which wills the +bad, but somehow works the good.” That is to +say, if one is willing to step over into the +undeveloped side, and live it in spite of its evil +beginnings, one can only develop oneself and +finally come to a higher good.</p> + +<p>Such the drama shows. By magic Faust +gains wealth and power. He seduces Gretchen, +and her end is insanity, infanticide and a +death that narrowly escapes the gallows. But +Faust goes on, and the whole play shows how, +by following the Devil, he brings the neglected +side up to the developed side of himself, so +that in the end the Devil is defeated and Faust +gains that heaven where the two sides of his +nature may now be united in harmony.</p> + +<p>If Faust outlines the problem, another +great work, the “Prometheus and Epimetheus” +of Spitteler, shows its solution. Jung is at +great pains to analyze this long poem in his +book on Psychological Types. Prometheus and +Epimetheus stand respectively for introvert +and extravert. Prometheus is the idealist who +withdraws from the world into himself to love +and serve his soul; but Epimetheus is the man +of the world, who has common sense, who +obeys the conventions and who becomes a king. +Epimetheus cannot wean his foolish brother +from his obviously perverted way of living. A +conflict arises between them, which drives +Prometheus all the deeper in himself. Thus +a great sickness falls not only upon him, but +upon his God (the collective unconscious). His +soul then brings him a jewel, a thing of magic, +a wonder-child, which will save the world. +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_56">[Pg 56]</span>But this jewel is rejected by the king and by +the world, and as a result there is destruction, +the king losing his throne.</p> + +<p>“The final extinction of Good is prevented +by the intervention of Prometheus. He rescues +Messias, the last of the sons of God, out of +the power of his enemy. Messias becomes the +heir to the Divine Kingdom, while Prometheus +and <ins id="cor_56" title="Transcriber's Note: original text - Epitheus">Epimetheus</ins>, the personifications of the +severed opposites, become united in the seclusion +of their native valley.... Which means, +extraversion and introversion cease to dominate +as one-sided lines of direction.... In +their stead, a new function appears, symbolically +represented by a child named Messias. He +is the mediator, the symbol of the new attitude +that shall reconcile the opposites.”</p> + +<p>What is the exact meaning of this? To begin +with, Prometheus and Epimetheus must be +thought of, not as two men, but as the two +sides of one man, the conflict, in short, between +introversion and extraversion. In the +normal course of development, like Faust, one +develops first one side, then the other. Naturally +the time must come when the conflict +breaks out in full force: shall one follow the +principle of power, of introversion, or that of +love, of extraversion? This conflict produces +a deadlock, and in this deadlock, a solution +is offered by the unconscious in the form of a +symbol (the jewel, the wonder-child.) But this +is not understood, and there is a breakdown +and collapse. However, now a new path is +found which leads out.</p> + +<p>This path Jung calls the <em>transcendent function</em>; +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_57">[Pg 57]</span>this indeed is the Messias of the poem. +It is part of the analytic process, and emerges +only at the end of a deep analysis. What it +amounts to is an <em>inner guidance</em>.</p> + +<p>I have already shown that the collective unconscious +is creative, that it is ahead of the +race, and projects at times, through geniuses, +a vision of what is to be, what is becoming. +Just as it does this for the race, it also to a +certain extent, and at certain times, is prospective +for the individual, laying out the next +step he is to take, and forecasting the next +phase of his development.</p> + +<p>This prospective quality is rarely found in +the dream, though sometimes it appears there. +It is usually found in the <em>phantasy</em>. The phantasy +is a product <ins id="cor_57" title="Transcriber's Note: original text - analagous">analogous</ins> to the dream, but +whereas when we dream we are fully asleep, +and hence, unconscious, the phantasy appears +between waking and sleeping, when we are +really half-asleep. It appears as a sort of +dream, sometimes as a clear plastic image, and +we know, when we apprehend it, that we are +not asleep.</p> + +<p>As Jung works out in great detail, the phantasy +has a greater value than the dream, for +the dream is merely the product of the unconscious, +whereas the phantasy is the product +of both the conscious and unconscious minds +working simultaneously at that moment when +we are half-conscious, or between the two. +Hence, it contains in symbolic form, our deepest +insight, our deepest wish, our clearest foreknowledge +of what to do, being in this respect +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_58">[Pg 58]</span>also superior to our conscious working out of +the problem.</p> + +<p>It is by following the insight gained from +our phantasies that we work out the problem +of the deep conflict; for if we follow these +phantasies, we take the next necessary step +and so learn gradually to reconcile the claims +of extraversion with those of introversion.</p> + +<p>In the great religion of the Hindoos, and in +fact, in a religion of the Chinese, we hear much +of a Middle Path. The problem as set forth +by those religions is that life consists of a pair +of opposites; such for instance as spirituality +vs. materialism, feminine vs. masculine, love +vs. power, divine vs. demonic, etc., and they +see clearly that neither extreme can bring +peace. If we live one extreme then soon we +thirst and hunger for the other, and this +brings discord and conflict. The true wisdom +of life then is to find a Middle Path, a way +between the opposites. This way is not something +that can be thought out and entered by +violence. It is something found gradually +through development in religious ritual.</p> + +<p>It is this great thought, this truth which +emerges again in modern psychology. But it +comes now with a difference. Psycho-analysis +is a highly specialized scientific technic. It +does not deal with ritual and dogma, it does +not lay down general laws to the individual. +It recognizes that his problem is different from +that of all other individuals, and seeks to guide +him, not from without, but from within. From +the material which rises naturally from his +own psyche, from dream and phantasy and intuition, +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_59">[Pg 59]</span>he gains the insight which he must +follow.</p> + +<p>Hence, religion ceases to be a mass-matter, +but becomes an individual matter. As Jung +puts it, every creed attempts to make us all +live the phantasies of the founder of the religion. +His phantasies may have been very +great and very deep; but they were, in the +main, his own. Every human being is constantly +producing phantasies, and in these lies +his own path, and not in those of someone’s +else.</p> + +<p>What is the goal then of this immense struggle +in the human being, this psychic conflict +which sometimes goes on to a point of shattering +the individual, this inner division that +cries out for healing, and which goads us forward +to our development? The word that Jung +gives us is <em>individuation</em>. We aim, he says, to +be individuals in the true sense of the word. +Certainly, however, the fragments that Nietzsche +saw are not individuals, for an individual +is one who contains the many-sidedness of human +nature in a state of inner harmony. If +then this one-sidedness precludes individuality, +the psyche must be constantly urging us on to +develop that which has been neglected in order +that the undeveloped side may rise level to the +developed side, and so that in the end one may +be a complete, rounded, harmonious human being.</p> + +<p>This is the light which the new psychology +offers to the race at a moment of its greatest +darkness. It has just fought the bloodiest and +most devastating war of all history; it has +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_60">[Pg 60]</span>fought that war in the twilight of the Gods. +Its old Gods are disintegrating and vanishing. +Everywhere we see the harsh conflict going on, +and at the very moment when man has reached +his highest point of extraversion, with his machines, +his radios and phonographs and aeroplanes, +his automobiles and newspapers and +movies, his triumph over nature, we see everywhere +the sadness and suffering of humanity, +the breakdown of white civilization in Europe, +the restless stirrings of the East, and an immense +increase in neurosis and insanity. A +great change is due; a new light has come. +This new light however, is not a religion, it +is nothing to broadcast and apply <i lang="fr">en masse</i>. +It is a technic which must reach individual by +individual, making him known to himself, discovering +for him his type with its needs and +limitation, showing him his possibilities, directing +him to the path of his own development. +Naturally such development will be different +for each individual. There are not +many, as Jung shows, who must go to the painful +lengths depicted in the story of Prometheus +and Epimetheus, or even in the story of Faust. +For the majority, a deeper self-understanding, +a knowledge of the types, an ability to understand +some of the products of the unconscious, +a lifting off of the repressions, a full recognition +of one’s own needs and desires, will be +enough to bring about a more harmonious, a +more fruitful life. But for the few, a higher, +deeper suffering is necessary, possibly because +of their gifts, which may thus be developed and +become a heritage for the race.</p> + + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> +<div class="chapter"> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_61">[Pg 61]</span></p> + + + <h3 class="nobreak" id="VIII"> + VIII. + <br> + NOTE. + </h3> +</div> + + +<p>This booklet has aimed to give a glimpse of +a vast territory, merely enough to set the +reader toward the complete works on the subject. +It has been necessary to condense and +suggest, where a deeper understanding would +be reached by elaboration and numerous examples. +For those who care to study the matter +more deeply it is suggested that they begin +Jung by reading the second edition of his +Papers in Analytical Psychology. This is a +difficult book because it contains a series of +articles which show his growth, step by step +toward a new insight. Much that he writes +there he has since discarded. However, it is +well to read whatever of it one finds interesting.</p> + +<p>The next step is to read The Psychology of +the Unconscious, which uncovers the theory of +the collective unconscious; and finally Jung’s +master-work up to this time, his Psychological +Types.</p> + +<p>If I have stimulated the reader to the point +where he desires to go on to these works, then +the purpose with which I wrote this little +book is fulfilled.</p> + + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> +<div class="chapter transnote"> + <h2 class="nobreak" id="Transcribers_Note"> + Transcriber’s Note + </h2> + +<p>Erroneously placed or missing quotation marks or punctuation have been silently corrected.</p> + +<p>The following printer errors or inconsistencies have been changed:</p> + +<ul> + <li><a href="#cor_05">p. 5</a>: “bads” changed to “bad” (receiving bad news)</li> + <li><a href="#cor_16">p. 16</a>: “homo-sexual” changed to “homosexual” (homosexual interest)</li> + <li><a href="#cor_18">p. 18</a>: “psychoanalytic” changed to “psycho-analytic” (In the course of his psycho-analytic practice)</li> + <li><a href="#cor_56">p. 56</a>: “Epitheus” changed to “Epimetheus” (while Prometheus and Epimetheus, the personifications)</li> + <li><a href="#cor_57">p. 57</a>: “analagous” changed to “analogous” (The phantasy is a product analogous to the dream)</li> +</ul> +</div> + +<div style='text-align:center'>*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 77864 ***</div> +</body> +</html> diff --git a/77864-h/images/cover.jpg b/77864-h/images/cover.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..9ec7cc8 --- /dev/null +++ b/77864-h/images/cover.jpg diff --git a/LICENSE.txt b/LICENSE.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6c72794 --- /dev/null +++ b/LICENSE.txt @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +This book, including all associated images, markup, improvements, +metadata, and any other content or labor, has been confirmed to be +in the PUBLIC DOMAIN IN THE UNITED STATES. + +Procedures for determining public domain status are described in +the "Copyright How-To" at https://www.gutenberg.org. + +No investigation has been made concerning possible copyrights in +jurisdictions other than the United States. 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