Jung: Dreams Come From the Unconscious

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As in our waking state, real people and things enter our field of vision, so the dream-images enter like another kind of reality into the field of consciousness of the dream-ego. We do not feel as if we were producing the dreams, it is rather as if the dreams came to us. . . . → Read More: Jung: Dreams Come From the Unconscious

Freud’s definition of the unconscious and ego

Today, we have the idea of a two-story psyche, so to say. Down below lies the unconscious, while the conscious individual is above. This individual has a sort of flashlight in his hand: consciousness. Now, if I ask you what were you doing at 10:30 PM on such and such a day, you might not . . . → Read More: Freud’s definition of the unconscious and ego

Campbell on Shadow

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The shadow is that what you might have been had you been born on the other side of the tracks: the other person, the other you. It is made up of the desires and ideas within you that are repressing–all of the introjected id. The shadow is the landfill of the self. . . . → Read More: Campbell on Shadow

Campbell on Ego and Persona

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You’ve got to be able to separate your sense of yourself–your ego–from the self you show the rest of the world–your persona.

You find this first big tension within the psyche between the dark inner potential of the cell’s unconscious portions on the one hand and the persona system on the . . . → Read More: Campbell on Ego and Persona

Campbell on the Self and Ego

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The self is the whole context of potentials. The ego is your consciousness of yourself, what you think you are, what you think you’re capable of, and it’s blocked by all of these unconsciously retained memories of incapacity, prohibitions, and so forth.

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Thus self and ego are not . . . → Read More: Campbell on the Self and Ego