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Episode 22: C.G. Jung and the Collective Unconscious

Lives of the Unconscious. A Podcast on Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy

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Symbols of the Soul

According to yung, contained within the symbolic world of the soul is something that cannot be put into words. He called it the numinus, following the psychology of e on at the time. In contrast to a mere sign, for example, a red traffic light means stop. Archetypal symbols contain something that can't be expressed in any other way. But in that very symbol, they carry something numinous. When a fairy tale, a myth or a story touches us, then it is because the within us has been touched. These stories speak to a spiritual reality that a psychological lab experiment could never come into contact with.

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