Enantiodromia: Caused by One of Four Kinds of Crisis

#JosephCampbell #quote #CarlJung

Now, when you go down into the unconscious, you’re pulling up not only the shadow and anima, but also those faculties for experiencing and judging that have not been employed in your life. You come to integrate the inferior functions and attitudes, so that any enantiodromia is merely a matter of realizing . . . → Read More: Enantiodromia: Caused by One of Four Kinds of Crisis

Psychic Debt: Lost in a Wasteland

#JosephCampbell #quote #shadow #anima

So, what have we got? We have the self, which is the great unwritten page. We have the ego, which is a consciousness becoming gradually more and more expanded in its field of experience in light. We have the persona, which is the field of the Völkergedanken, the local, ethnic way . . . → Read More: Psychic Debt: Lost in a Wasteland

Myths & Dreams Contain Personified Archetypes

#JosephCampbell #quote #dreams #archetypes

Now, typically, all these archetypes come out personified in myths and dreams. We personify the mystery of the universe as God. The ego becomes the hero or heroine figure. The unconscious self becomes the wise man or woman. The shadow becomes personified, too, as a kind of Mephistophelian figure. Evidently, the . . . → Read More: Myths & Dreams Contain Personified Archetypes

Campbell on Shadow cont’d

#JosephCampbell #quote #shadow

If you think of the self as a great circle in the center, any think of consciousness is well above that center, then the ego is up in the center of consciousness, and the shadow would be way down opposite in the deep unconscious. Shadow is inter down there for a reason; . . . → Read More: Campbell on Shadow cont’d

Campbell on Shadow

#JosephCampbell #quote #shadow

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