When something vanishes from consciousness it does not dissolve into thin air or cease to exist, any more than a car disappearing round a corner becomes non-existent. To speak under these conditions of latent or unconscious contents is hardly a daring hypothesis. Or else it may happen that we have an inkling or hunch of something which is about to break into consciousness: “something is in the air,” “we smell a rat,” and so on. The best we can say of it is: the thought (or whatever it was) has become unconscious, or is cut off from consciousness, so that it cannot even be remembered. It is so simple that it amounts to a tautology: a content of consciousness disappears and cannot be reproduced. No matter how low one’s opinion of the unconscious may be, the unconscious is at least on a level with the louse, which, after all, enjoys the honest interest of the entomologist.Īs to the alleged boldness of the hypothesis that an unconscious psyche exists, I must emphasize that a more modest formulation could hardly be imagined. This is no more than every science assumes, namely that its object is worthy of investigation. Our new method treats the dream as a spontaneous product of the psyche about which there is no previous assumption except that it somehow makes sense. Carl Jung Depth Psychology Facebook Group
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