{Jung's 'Memories, Dreams & [sic] Reflections' [continued (3)]}[10th June 1988]

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More* importantly, Jung insists** that Archetypes have no control of themselves, only form; content arises from conscious experience (i.e. of the psyche). This indicates to me that *** they have no real meaning. If my understanding of my experience is correct, Archetypes are pregnant with a meaning which gives form and structure to reality, both Inner (the Psyche) and Outer (the external World). This meaning (or content) is distorted by the Self (or Ego) – not given by it; although the effect of the distortion may be perceived as itself the result of the struggles between Archetypal forces in the battleground of the dis-integrated Mind.

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*[In 'Memories, Dreams, Reflections '(See last two previous entries.)]

**ref Archetypes, in Glossary (ibid)

***(in his apparent view)

****(This problem may arise out of my eccentric but firmly-rooted use of the word 'form', which is closer to modern everyday use than to the traditional philosophical meaning) <900729>

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