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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Barone-Chapman, Maryann

Titel

Meetings With The Unconscious

Ist Teil von

• Personal and Cultural Shadows of Late Motherhood, 2020, p.67-86

Auflage

1

Ort / Verlag

United Kingdom: Routledge

Erscheinungsjahr

2020

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• C. G. Jung saw the collective unconscious as a part of psyche, formed through inherited ‘collective representations’, a term he borrowed from Levy-Bruhl originally defined by Huber and Mauss on the subject of comparative religion. Jung claimed these representations to be a ‘second psychic system’ pre-existing within everyone to synthesize conscious and unconscious elements. Possession of the ego by an autonomous complex was considered crucial to maintaining mental health if the ego is capable of experiencing the possession without identifying with the unconscious. The meaning and purpose of enactments comprises not hearing/not remembering, transference and counter-transference phenomena that has been dissociated, but also unconsciously asking to be met within a humanizing relationship. The Word Association Experiment (WAE) brought Jung to the attention of Sigmund Freud who declared the method proof of the unconscious. The WAE is a highly sensitive instrument for revealing unconscious thoughts and feelings, or ‘complex indicators’.