Synopsis:
- Parallels between ancient myths and psychotic fantasies
- Motives are not in the history of the individual but in the history of the entire human race
- Unconscious as a repertory of symbols
- Unconscious: Freud's personal unconscious (repressed memories) + collective unconscious (inherited motives shared by all humanity)
- Collective unconscious: a shared repertory of archaic experience represented by "archetypes" which spontaneously emerge in all minds
- Mythology is the key to understanding the human mind
- Predispositions by all human brains to create some myths rather than others
- Libido is not just sexual
- Dreams reflect the collective unconscious
- Dreams connect the individual with the rest of humankind
- Mandala as the archetypical symbol of the self
- Trance ("active imagination") helps become one with the archetypes and achieve immortality
- The goal of psychoanalysis is spiritual renewal
- Self-deification through the mystical connection with our primitive ancestors ("We must dig down to the primitive in us"_ "a new experience of God")
- A race is identified by the archetypes that bind all individuals of the race together with their ancestors
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