The Unconscious
Most of mental life happens out of sight, and what is hidden there still acts, shaping choices, symptoms, slips, and dreams.
From Sigmund Freud.
In Symbols of the Psyche
- Philemon: A figure of the psyche who knew more than Jung did.
- The Descent: Going down to the dead, to come back with knowledge.
- Night: The dark from which the day is born.
- Water: The commonest symbol of the unconscious.
- The Abyss: The depth without a bottom.
More from Sigmund Freud
The Dream-Work · Eros and Thanatos · Id, Ego, and Superego · Projection · Repression · Sublimation · “Where Id Was”