he “could not break out into the open”27. He could not break out into the world where the action is: “the realm[s] of thought, culture, art, science, economics, etc.”28 Why was this? “Because then it would necessarily have become obvious (and he would have had to let himself in for the insight) that meaning, in-ness, myth are once and for all over. He would have had to enter modernity without reserve and allow man to be born […] But of course, the very purpose of his psychology project was to seal the spirit again in the bottle after its escape and to swallow the already born children…”29
Giegerich says that “What at Bollingen are revelations from the unconscious […are] for the intellect of the Kusnacht Jung, simply proveable observed facts, facts sealed in “unconsciousness”, that is, in mindless factuality, in the prohibition to think them: the prohibition to allow the mind to be “infected” by them…”30
Giegerich takes issue with Jung’s claim that consciousness is a tiny island surrounded on all sides by a great sea of unconsciousness. Giegerich points out that this “had only become possible because Jung had systematically excluded major conscious and public
areas of modern reality”31 Jung couldn’t engage with the current and contemporary. He regarded much of that as “utterly banal”32 Hence, Giegerich rightly defines Jung as having created for himself “a decidedly pre-modern level of consciousness.”33
Chapter 2 Conclusion
In this work the
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