CG JUNG - Countryside Anarchist

LECTURE 3
one cannot help recognizing the fact that some living devil is against
one. Thus the old idea that such people were possessed by devils, were
the victims of witches, and so forth.
Mr. Baumann: There is a very good book by Friedrich Theodor Vischer,
Auch Einer (Also one). 8
Dr. Jung: Yes, a German book about one of those who know about
things, that is, the imp in objects. For instance, when you lose your spectacles
you will always lose them in an unlikely place, perhaps upon a
chair of such a design that the spectacles fit in perfectly. And you can be
absolutely sure that when you drop a piece of buttered toast on the floor
it will always fall on the buttered side. Or when you are putting your
coffeepot upon the table, it will try by all means to put its spout through
the handle of the milk pot, so that you spill the milk when you lift the
pot.
Mr. Dell: Die Tücke des Objekts (the malice of objects).
Dr. Jung: Yes, the devilish cunning of objects, and Vischer made a
whole system of that in Auch Einer. It is exceedingly quixotic naturally,
but he gets the psychic factor all right, because it is in a way our doing,
and yet it is not our doing; it happens in an impish way. The elusiveness
of the psychogenic factor is amazing. In analysis also it is always escaping,
because wherever you try to attack it the patient denies it and says, “But
that is what I wanted to do; that is myself.” He keeps it out of the way all
the time because he himself is afraid to discover it. He is afraid that a
screw is loose somewhere in his head; he thinks it would mean that he
was mad.
So the crossing-over from maõipÖra to anvhata is really very difficult.
The recognition that the psyche is a self-moving thing, something genuine
and not yourself, is exceedingly difficult to see and to admit. For it
means that the consciousness which you call yourself is at an end. In your
consciousness everything is as you have put it, but then you discover that
you are not master in your own house, you are not living alone in your
own room, and there are spooks about that play havoc with your realities,
and that is the end of your monarchy. But if you understand it rightly,
and as tantric yoga shows you, this recognition of the psychogenic factor
is merely the first recognition of the puruüa. It is the beginning of the
great recognition appearing in the most grotesque and ridiculous forms.
You see, that is what the gazelle signifies.
Now you remember the elephant appears in viçuddha again. So here
we encounter the full power, the insurmountable sacred strength of the
8 Friedrich Theodor Vischer, Auch Einer, (Stuttgart and Leipzig, 1884).
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