When you observe yourself within, you see moving images. A world of images. Generally known as, fantasies. In early childhood, a character is already there. You see, a child is not born tabula rasa, as one assumes. A child is born as a high complexity with existing determinants that never wavers through their whole life that gives the child his character, already at the earliest childhood, a mother recognizes the individuality of her child and, as always, if you observe carefully you will see the tremendous difference, even in very small children and these particularities express themselves in every way so, first, they express themselves in all childish activities, in the way how it plays into things it is interested in. There are children who are tremendously interested in all moving things, and the movements chiefly all the things, you see, that affect the body. And so, they are interested what the eyes do, what the ears do, how far you can put into the nose with your finger, you know. [Chuckles] Now you see these things, these interests, they express themselves in typically childish ways, and they express themselves in other particularities, which are still the same, but it doesn't come from the fact that they once have done such-and-such a thing in childhood. It is the character that is doing it. There is a definite inherited complexity, you see. We are born into a pattern, We are a pattern. We are a structure that is pre-established. through the genes. It is a biological order of of our mental functioning As humans of our biological/physiological function follows a pattern, or the behavior of any bird or insect, follows a pattern. And that is the same in us. Man has a certain pattern that makes him specifically human. No man is born without it We are only deeply unconscious of these facts because we live all by our senses, and outside of ourselves. If a man could look into himself he could discover it. And when a man discovers it, in our days, he thinks he's crazy. I may be crazy (chuckles) There are of course, great individual differences that all individuals have, in regards to basic knowledge of themselves --- of the things that owe only themselves. But even those people wouldn't be capable of knowing what is going on in their own conscience, because they are not conscious of the fact that while they live a conscious life, all the time, a myth is played in the unconscious --- a myth that extends over centuries- namely archetypal ideas, a stream of archetypal ideas that goes on through one individual through the centuries. Really, it is like a continuous stream and that comes into the daylight in the great movements say in political movements, or in spiritual movements For instance, in the time before reformation, people dreamt of the great change. And that's the reason why such great transformations could be predicted If somebody has been clever enough to see what is going on in people's mind, in the unconscious mind, would be able to predict it. For instance I have predicted the Nazi rising in Germany through the observation of my German patients. They had dreams in which the whole thing was anticipated. And with considerable detail. In the years before Hitler, before Hitler, came in the beginning of... Well, I could say the year, the year 1919 (Adolf Hitler, who had been sent by the German Army to spy on the German Workers’ Party, decided that he liked the political ideas of the party and became a member) I was sure that something was threatening in Germany, something very big and very catastrophic And I only knew it from the observation of the unconscious. When you observe the world you see people, you see houses, you see the sky, you see tangible objects. But, when you observe yourself within, you see moving images. --- a world of images --- generally known as fantasies. Yet, these fantasies are facts. It is a fact that a man has such and such a fantasy. And it is such a tangible fact for instance that when a man has a certain fantasy, another man may lose his life. Or a bridge is built. These houses were all fantasies. Everything you do here, all the others, everything was fantasy to begin with. And fantasy has a bout with reality that is not to be forgotten. Fantasy is not nothing! It is of course, not a tangible object. But, it is a fact nevertheless. It is, see, a form of energy, despite the fact we can't measure it. It is a manifestation of something and that is a reality that is just a reality as for instance the peace treaty of Versailles or something like that. it is "no more", you can't show it, but it, it, has been a fact And so, the practical events are facts, Are realities, and when you observe the stream of images within, you observe an aspect of the world --- of the world within. And so, you see, the man who is going by the external world, by the influences of the external world, say of society, or perceptions, sense perceptions, thinks that he is more valid. you know, because this is valid, this is real, and the man who goes by the subjective factor is "not valid" because the subjective factor is "nothing." No! That man is just as well based because he is based, bases himself upon the world from within. And so he is quite right even if he says, " it is nothing but my fantasy." No. Of course, that is the introvert, the introvert is always afraid of the external world, he will tell you when you ask him, he will be apologetic about it he'll say, "Of course, yes, I know it is only my fantasies." And he has always a resentment. And as the world in general, particularly America, is extroverted like hell (interviewer laughs) --- the introvert has no place -- because he doesn't know that he beholds the world from within. And that gives him dignity, and that gives him certainty Because, it is, nowadays, particularly... the world hangs on a thin thread, and that is the psyche of man Assume, that, certain fellows in Moscow lose their nerve or their common sense for a bit... and the whole world is in fire and flames You see, it is nowadays, we are not threatened by elemental catastrophes --- there's no such thing as an H (hydrogen) bomb --- that is all man's doing We are the great danger --- the psyche is the great danger, what if something goes wrong with the psyche? You see? And, you see, it is demonstrated to us in our days what the power of psyche is of man, how important it is to know something about it but we know nothing about it. (music) (This relates to Jung’s experience during his trip to Kenya and Uganda in 1925, one year after the trip he had in New-Mexico.) Man is born with a certain functioning, a certain way of functioning, a certain pattern of behavior And that is expressed in the form of archetypal images or archetypal forms For instance, the way in which a man should behave is given by an archetype, and therefore, these primitives tell their stories the creative education goes through story-telling. You see, if you are unconscious about certain things that ought to be conscious, then you are dissociated. And then, you are a man whose left hand never knows what the right is doing And counteracts or interferes with the right hand. Now, such a man is hampered all over the place. American life, in certain way, is so one-sided, and they incinerate, uproot it but you must have some way to compensate the Earth It's either you have to pacify your unconscious, or along the lines, because it is in absolute uproar Besides this provocation, you have a big moral rebellion in America Look at the rebellion of the modern youth in America the sexual rebellion, all that, because the real natural man is just in open rebellion against the utterly inhuman form of life. They are absolutely divorced from nature in a way, and that accounts for the drug abuse, I noticed with my patients, particularly with people that are in public life, that they have a certain way of presenting themselves. For instance, take the doctor, he has a certain way, for instance, he has good bedside manners and he behaves as one expects a doctor to behave. He may even identify himself with it, and believe that he is what he appears to be --- And so, when he is a Professor, he's also supposed to behave in a certain way so that it is plausible that he is a Professor, you know. So the persona is a certain complicated system of behavior which is partially dictated by society and partially dictated by the expectations or the wishes one knows as oneself Now, this is not the real personality in spite of the fact that people have been assured that it is all quite real and honest, yet it is not. Such a performance, or say, the performance of the persona is quite alright, as long as you know that you are not identical with the way in which you appear But, if you are unconscious of this fact, then, you get into, sometimes, very disagreeable conflicts, namely people can't help noticing that, at home, for instance, you are quite different from what you appear to be in public. And people who don't know it stumble over it in the end. They deny that they are like that but, they are like that, they are it then, you don't know now which is the real man. Is he the man as he is at home or in intimate relations or is he the man that appears in public? It is a question of Jekyll and Hyde. Often --- occasionally, there is such a difference that you would almost be able to speak of the double personality. And the more that is pronounced, the more the people are neurotic. They get neurotic because they have two different ways; they contradict themselves all the time, and in much as they are conscious of themselves. But, they don't know it! They think they're all one --- everybody sees that there are two And some only know him from one side, others only know him from the other side, and then there are situations that clash because the way you are in certain situations with people in your relations And these two situations don't chime and they are just dishonest. Let's take a singer who's absolutely controlling his voice, and suddenly, he can't sing Or, take a man who writes fluently... suddenly, he makes a ridiculous mistake, and there his habit doesn't function. It may be, you know, that what the unconscious has to say is so disagreeable that it prefers not listen And, in most cases, people would be less neurotic if they could admit that all these things are difficult or disagreeable or inconvenient or something of the sort. ... So there is always a certain amount of repression when in treatment, for instance, in the treatment of neurosis, you have to deal with the personal unconscious for quite a while and then only, dreams come that show that the Collective Unconscious is touched upon. Now, as long as there is material of personal nature, you have to deal with the personal unconscious, but when you get to, say, a question, to a problem which is no more merely personal, but also collective, you get collective dreams. You see, there is no system about it In therapy, you treat the patient as he is in the present moment. Irrespective of causes and certain things And it is all more or less theoretical. There are cases who know just as much about their own neurosis as i know about it, in a way in such cases I can start right away with posing the problem For instance, there is a case, a professor of philosophy and he imagines that he has cancer. He shows me several dotted x-ray plates that prove that there is no cancer He says:"Of course, i have no cancer, but nevertheless I am afraid I could have one. I have consulted so many surgeons and they all ensure me there is none And I know there is none, but I might have one, and that's enough. Such a case can stop from one moment to the other. You simply stop thinking such a foolish thing. But that is exactly what he can't do. You know it is nonsense, and why should you think it or what for you should think it, and what is that power that makes you think such a thing It's like a possession, like a demon in him that makes him think like that In spite of the fact that he doesn't want it. Then you have the problem. That is the problem for the intellectual man. And then I say: "You don't know, you have no answer, I have no answer Now what are we going to do? Now we must see what you're dreaming because the dream is a manifestation of the unconscious side. Now he has never heard of the unconscious side, so I must explain to him that he has an unconscious and that the dream is a manifestation of it, and if he succeeds in analyzing the dream we might get an idea about that power that makes him think like that. So in such a case, one can begin right away with analysis of dreams. And in all cases that are a bit serious, (mind you, this is not a simple case, it is a very difficult case in spite of the simplicity of the phenomenology and symptomathology) In all cases, after the preliminaries as it were (history of the family, medical anamnesis, etc. we come to that question: What is it in your unconscious that makes you wrong that hinders you to tick normally and then we can begin with the observation of the unconscious. And then day by day, one goes on by the doubt that the unconscious produces. We discuss the dream, and that gives a new surface to the whole problem and he will have another dream, and next dream again an answer because the unconscious is in a compensatory relation to the consciousness and after awhile we get the full picture. and if he has the full picture and the necessary moral stamina well then he can be cured. But in the end it is a moral question whether a man applies what he has learned, or not. one day i researched one typical archetypal form It is what they call in (inaudible) a square in the circle or the circle in the square and it is an age old symbol. that goes right back in the pre-history of man and is all over the Earth. and it either expresses the deity or the self and those are psychologically very much related. which doesn't mean that I believe that God is a selfless god I made that statement, that there is a psychological relation
