The more one sees of human fate and the more one examines its secret springs of action, the more one is impressed by the strength of unconscious moti… - Carl Jung
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The more one sees of human fate and the more one examines its secret springs of action, the more one is impressed by the strength of unconscious motives and by the limitations of free choice
"Every transformation demands as its precondition "the ending of a world"-the collapse of an old philosophy of life."
Not for a moment dare we succumb to the illusion that an archetype can be finally explained and disposed of. Even the best attempts at explanation are only more or less successful translations into another metaphorical language. (Indeed, language itself is only an image.) The most we can do is dream the myth onwards and give it a modern dress. And whatever explanation or interpretation does to it, we do to our own souls as well, with corresponding results for our own well-being. The archetype — let us never forget this — is a psychic organ present in all of us. A bad explanation means a correspondingly bad attitude toward this organ, which may thus be injured. But the ultimate sufferer is the bad interpreter himself.
One of the most difficult tasks men can perform, however much others may despise it, is the invention of good games.
