Dreams by C.G. Jung
Author:C.G. Jung [Jung, C.G.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781400839148
Amazon: B0073X0I68
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 1974-10-15T05:00:00+00:00
30. The red-and-white rose, the âgolden flowerâ of alchemy, as birthplace of the filius philosophorum.ââRipley Scrowleâ (MS., 1588)
18. DREAM:
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A man offers him some golden coins in his outstretched hand. The dreamer indignantly throws them to the ground and immediately afterwards deeply regrets his action. A variety performance then takes place in an enclosed space.
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The blue flower has already begun to drag its history after it. The âgoldâ is offered and is indignantly refused. Such a misinterpretation of the aurum philosophicum is easy to understand. But hardly has it happened when there comes a pang of remorse that the precious secret has been rejected and a wrong answer given to the riddle of the Sphinx. The same thing happened to the hero in Meyrinkâs Golem, when the ghost offered him a handful of grain which he spurned. The gross materiality of the yellow metal with its odious fiscal flavour, and the mean look of the grain, make both rejections comprehensible enoughâbut that is precisely why it is so hard to find the lapis: it is exilis, uncomely, it is thrown out into the street or on the dung-hill, it is the commonest thing to be picked up anywhereââin planitie, in montibus et aquis.â It has this âordinaryâ aspect in common with Spittelerâs jewel in Prometheus and Epimetheus, which, for the same reason, was also not recognized by the worldly wise. But âthe stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner,â and the intuition of this possibility arouses the liveliest regret in the dreamer.
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It is all part of the banality of its outward aspect that the gold is minted, i.e., shaped into coins, stamped, and valued. Applied psychologically, this is just what Nietzsche refuses to do in his Zarathustra: to give names to the virtues. By being shaped and named, psychic life is broken down into coined and valued units. But this is possible only because it is intrinsically a great variety of things, an accumulation of unintegrated hereditary units. Natural man is not a âselfââhe is the mass and a particle in the mass, collective to such a degree that he is not even sure of his own ego. That is why since time immemorial he has needed the transformation mysteries to turn him into something, and to rescue him from the animal collective psyche, which is nothing but a variété.
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But if we reject this unseemly variété of man âas he is,â it is impossible for him to attain integration, to become a self.34 And that amounts to spiritual death. Life that just happens in and for itself is not real life; it is real only when it is known. Only a unified personality can experience life, not that personality which is split up into partial aspects, that bundle of odds and ends which also calls itself âman.â The dangerous plurality already hinted at in dream 4 (par. 58) is compensated in vision 5 (par. 62), where the snake describes a magic circle and thus marks off the taboo area, the temenos (fig.
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