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ing in a post-romantic context of the romantic notion that the psyche
has legitimate claims apart from the demands of civilization, imparts to
Freud's system the quality of adventure and distinguishes it from mere
abstract schematizing, from the sort of intellectual performance that is
finally a juggling of categories.
I n J ung's system, on the contrary, the connection between spiritual–
ity and the theory of repression is severed ; and with it the connection
between the existence of civilization and a universal propensity to mental
illness. In addition to impulses that may be finally incompatible with
the mature ego and so require repression, Jung identified another un–
conscious element, our relation to which is primary in determining the
incidence of neurosis. The difference between these two elements may
be
illuminated by J ung's insistence that whereas the first group are di–
rected towards certain fixed objects and therefore become associated with
determinate images and ideas, the second group resists such association.
Their medium of articulation, so to speak, is
archetypal,
not ideational–
that is, a play of pure form manifesting itself differently at every moment
of life, which is yet "determined," according to Jung, not because it
gravitates to certain objects or gives experience a characteristic shape,
but because it always and inevitably
compensates
for the limitations of
conscious attitudes: if the latter is extravert, it will be intravert; if con-
"The stories, tales and sketches of
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