emphasis is different from Jung’s. It is to seek out the new idea, to freshen up in order to widen and enrich consciousness, not allowing psychological energy to become suffocating and trapped. The point is to discover new areas where the psychological energy can flow into. This is done by a search for meaning. But not yesterdays meaning like Jung’s pre-modernism but for tomorrows meaning, palatable for the contemporary person. Because dead symbols are dead. One must look in areas consisting of symbols that are very much alive. And then one must get stuck in as opposed to treating the material as untouchable as Jung does with his main concepts. This maybe difficult but its rewarding.
Overall Conclusion
One has to have personal myth in life. Actors and actresses have this and they tend to love their work. They feel a participation mystique with their characters and the plots they are involved in/ It’s about non-literal script that is orientating yet never dangerous because of its non-literalism… its fictional nature.
But of course, the material must be alive. Jung’s problem is that he dealt with dead symbols which put contemporary man and woman off because contemporary man and woman is not pre-modern and therefore is disinterested in alchemy, Gnosticism and other ancient institutions.
The contemporary person also has to live their personal myth. In other words the person mustn’t hide it away behind locked doors as Jung did with his pre-modern myths.
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