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Toward an Archetypal Imagination
Eater ecole angi sven pov tn ad na
partially “eave fansay” ast way of reolving the plalosophial
annomis presenti the work of Abalard and Seiler. Rejecting Abels
‘oncepeulio snd Schiller’ rational wil asthe proper "mediating stand
print Jung ses in faa say eo conjoin the antnoricl notions in
{uesion team and nominalisn in Abels ease sensation 2nd thought
InSchiller ein this austere phlosophcal context chat Jong nroaces
Fantasy as tert quad tha capable of mediating betven contrade-
tory concept
‘This autonomous acini ofthe ce, which an be explained seiber
as vfs ston wo sesey stil no the seca organ feral
ea ie ey vil proce, cominully cee ae"
Ta this inaugural statement, Jng stresses two charsctrisies of fans:
‘it suronomy and it eet. fts autonomy sem from ss being "the
‘mother ofall possiblities” and its ereatvty inked witht olen the
formation of symbols! But fantasy shld vo be much more ever than this
Issac, not being ited vo crease as such, pervades ll psychic ats
and isnot merely one psychological operation ariong oer. As the direct
‘expression of psyenic He” fantasy drs together snd mediates between
aspect of phe? fi the nes ve of in
iscused in Psychological Types, fantasy may cake at east thre dif
ferent forms: voluntary, passive and ative Fantasy thats produced olan
taily as a mere concoction of conscious clement ix dismised as “an
artical experimen of purely shore ner” (CW 6,471) Jang it
Primal concerned withthe other wo types of fantary,in both of which
‘here isan eruption of unconscious content ito consciousness (id)‘The way thisitruption is eae bythe human subject determines whether
the fantasy wl be passive or atv, IF we ae supine befor dhe inushing
‘material then the fantasy passive one and we ace i the position of
the dreamer o the pyshoti ur ther lea differnt way of confroning
the upsurge of unconcone content in fantasy. Instead of allowing oueee
toe merome, can atempe alter he cour ofthe ongoing experince
ba becoming the agents of fants either ean vices The use of such
active fantasy as a means of eontining and guiding material emanating
ftom the unconscious forms 8 prototype for what came tobe called"
sve imagination
Fort became increasingly clear 0 Jung tha he could no longer confine
hisstenion to fatany alone. Under thesmpace of the alchemists distin
‘ion berween pasta ad magia, be began to ree the term a
{sey [Phamare) to what emery se sbjecve Rgment of the ind” (CW
13, $207mI7) Imagination (Binbldgcrft,Iminston), im conta,
is Said to be “an imagesmaking, form givingycrenive activity” bid,
{207nI8). A genuinely ative imagination epitomizes ths ereative att
Sid thas usurp the sole tae had former been gen to fantey lone:
aman s mere ronuee phastasn, 2 Sein inpesion: bat
‘neption ctv, peroseal ceion. A fatsy neo ost
{oor ow tmeaton, od vovains onthe tric of preaching te
Coniosepeion, Bt aa again thee Jee, ea
‘hac he image ve aie often an tha the sybils