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Jung and Mr. Punch as mythologems
Author(s) -
Mathers Dale
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
journal of analytical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.285
H-Index - 23
eISSN - 1468-5922
pISSN - 0021-8774
DOI - 10.1111/1468-5922.12411
Subject(s) - veneration , unconscious mind , mythology , psychoanalysis , collective unconscious , identification (biology) , philosophy , psychology , epistemology , theology , botany , biology
This paper explores how we can make our own mythological version of ‘Jung’ say whatever we want. Excessive veneration gets in the way of his theories being allowed to stand on their own. Understanding ‘Jung’ as a mythologem provides a way out of this intoxication with identification by letting us recollect and re‐connect to the Collective Unconscious.