A perspective from the father of analytical or archetypal psychology, Carl G. Jung (1875-1961)

“In Jung’s view the psyche is largely unconscious. The growth of consciousness is what mental life is chiefly about. What is not yet conscious is normally experienced ‘out there,’ in projection on the outer world. We find ourselves in other people, things, and places, in experiences felt to come from the outside. Only secondarily, if at all, do we recognize our own participation in our experience. When we do, we have a chance to reclaim the projection, ponder it, own it, and add it to our awareness of ourselves. It is in this way that personality grows – by a continuous cycleof projecting and reclaiming psychic contents. Through this feedback loop unconscious potential is put out into the world and then brought back in at a realized, conscious level and integrated into the expanding personality.”

House as a Mirror of Self, Clare Cooper Marcus, Conari Press, 1995, pp. xiii-xiv.

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