psyche from “direct collision with archetypes’ colossal psychic energy” [1; 18]. The visual effect was that of the struggle with obsession, “release from spell”, exorcism, redemption and purification. Jung states that ” man has never had a shortage of powerful images, which like a magic wall, protected him from the eerie vitality hidden inside his soul” [1; 104]. Jung illustrates it by a story of a Swiss mystic and hermit who experienced the so-called Trinity vision while in his solitary cell at Sachseln. As the story goes brother Nicholas “gazed deep into the dark mirror, which reflected the wondrous and horrifying light of the primordial”.[1; 101-104]. Besieged by his own unconscious, he must have turned to the dogmatic image of divinity “for help in assimilating the fatal invasion of the archetypical image” [1; 101-104].
Jung maintains that “dogma substitutes for the collective unconscious by formulating its substance in man’s thinking mind. The life of the collective unconscious has been presented by archetypical dogmatic ideas and continuously flows amongst the Credo symbols and ritual”[1; 101-104].
Ours is a comment that it makes every bit of sense for people to sacrifice their identity along with possible personal growth and perfection for just the illusion of “peace and security” rendered by religion or its like. On the other hand the fee might be way too high. Thus the “Faust’s” notorious Mephistopheles, demanding selling the soul in return for certain comforts, is nothing unusual since all gods, be they Christian or not, act in the exact same way. As a result the individual archetype is hidden by the collective one and man goes on “living in his cave gazing at the shadows on the wall”. [The reference is to the Platonic
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