Becca Tarnas on Jung, Tolkien, and the Imaginal
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The Collective Unconscious Is the Imaginal Realm Is Fairy
I wanted a direct equivalence to say the collective unconscious is the imaginal realm. I was challenged on this idea by my external reader Daniel Polikoff who challenged me to bring a more nuanced picture. And first of all to acknowledge that all of these ideas are being expressed by individuals, particularly by young and those in the field of Jungian in depth psychology. Then fairy is articulated by Tolkien and maybe we can't make a definitive ontological equation between all of these different notions or concepts.
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