Even as a kid, I read 'Jung - Reflections and Individuation In Fairy Tales'; all the inner circle of Jung was a real huge thing for me.
For better or for worse, my brother and I both have some Jungian leanings, so we're tempted to think that these bits and bobs of the past are knocking around in everyone's heads somehow to some degree, and they just need to be jiggled into the front of their head in the mind again.
The collective unconscious consists of the sum of the instincts and their correlates, the archetypes. Just as everybody possesses instincts, so he also possesses a stock of archetypal images.
Everyone has complexes about their body or their ability and skills and dream of a rebirth into something different. I myself have always had that secret desire to become something completely different and enact revenge on certain things. So I do that through my movies. My desires become reality in the movie because it can't become real in real life.
I don't have a general archetypal platonic shadow, 'acting' concept about it.
In sleep, fantasy takes the form of dreams. But in waking life, too, we continue to dream beneath the threshold of consciousness, especially when under the influence of repressed or other unconscious complexes.
It was Jung who first said to explain the symbol as if talking to a man from mars who knew nothing about our life on earth.
Remember, 20 percent of women have inferiority complexes, 70 percent have illusions.
The Jungian view of drama would be that it affects all of our imaginations and somehow taps into our hidden, ancient, primordial memories.
A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them: they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world.
I was in Jungian analysis for 20 years, 1976-96.
I've never been interested in philosophy, but some of Jung's ideas seem useful in helping people understand pictures and so forth.
I'm attracted to the things that people throw away - the shadow goods, in Jungian terms.
One has complexes. One has the art complex. One goes to the School of Fine Arts and catches the complexes.
Jung was absolutely right about one thing. We are occupied by gods. The mistake is to identify with the god occupying you.
