Je savais que je ne pourrais jamais faire mienne cette position. Cela n'a plus rien d'un jugement scientifique, mais relève uniquement d'une volonté personnelle de puissance.Ĭe choc frappa au cœur notre amitié. C'est le plus essentiel ! Voyez-vous, nous devons en faire un dogme, un bastion inébranlable.' Il me disait cela plein de passion et sur le ton d'un père disant : 'Promets-moi une chose, mon cher fils : va tous les dimanches à l'église !' Quelque peu étonné, je lui demandai : 'Un bastion - contre quoi ?' Il me répondit : 'Contre le flot de vase noire de…' Ici il hésita un moment pour ajouter : '… de l'occultisme !' Ce qui m'alarma d'abord, c'était le 'bastion' et le 'dogme' un dogme c'est-à-dire une profession de foi indiscutable, on ne l'impose que là où l'on veut une fois pour toutes écraser un doute. “J'ai encore un vif souvenir de Freud me disant : 'Mon cher Jung, promettez-moi de ne jamais abandonner la théorie sexuelle.

Jung, quote from Memories, Dreams, Reflections He confronted me in an objective manner, and I understood that there is something in me which can say things that I do not know and do not intend, things which may even be directed against me.” Through him the distinction was clarified between myself and the object of my thought. He said I treated thoughts as if I generated them myself, but in his view thoughts were like animals in the forest, or people in a room, or birds in the air, and added, “If you should see people in a room, you would not think that you had made those people, or that you were responsible for them.” It was he who taught me psychic objectivity, the reality of the psyche. For I observed clearly that it was he who spoke, not I. In my fantasies I held conversations with him, and he said things which I had not consciously thought. Philemon represented a force which was not myself. “Philemon and other figures of my fantasies brought home to me the crucial insight that there are things in the psyche which I do not produce, but which produce themselves and have their own life.

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