But besides that there is a thinking in primordial images, in symbols which are… inborn in him from the earliest times, and, eternally living, outlasting all generations, still make up the groundwork of the human psyche. … thinking which is a mere equation,… is the working of the intellect. The harmful effect shows itself in the form of loss of libido, depression, and physical debility…. a persistent attachment to the dead makes life seem less worth living, and may even be the cause of psychic illnesses. … When a person dies, the feelings and emotions that bound his relatives to him lose their application to reality and sink into the unconscious, where they active a collective content that has a deleterious effect on consciousness…. They liken the art to the work of the sower, who buries the grain in the earth: it dies only to waken to new life. No new life can arise, say the alchemists, without the death of the old. The opinions expressed in these essays are her own and do not necessarily reflect the views or opinions of other Jungian Center faculty or Board members. Sue Mehrtens is the author of this and all the other blog essays on this site.
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