What should have been a human impulse becomes a tiger-like impulse.
It is a fact that if an impulse from one or the other sphere comes up and is not lived out, then it goes back down and tends to develop antihuman qualities.
What should have been a human impulse becomes a tiger-like impulse.
For instance, a man has a feeling impulse to say something positive to someone and he blocks it off through some inhibition.
He might then dream that he had driven over a child with his car he had had a spontaneous feeling impulse on the level of a child and his conscious purpose had smashed it.
The human is still there, but as a hurt child.
Should he do that habitually for five years, he would no longer dream of a child who had been hurt but of a zoo full of raging wild animals in a cage.
An impulse which is driven back loads up with energy and becomes inhuman.
This fact, according to Dr. Jung, demonstrates the independent existence of the unconscious.
No one has seen what the unconscious is; it is a concept, not an ectoplasmic reality somewhere in space.
If something comes into my mind from my unconscious, a moment later it can fall below the threshold of consciousness: I know the man is Mr. So-and-So, a minute later I have forgotten the name, and afterwards I may remember it again.
Therefore, one can assume that what is unconscious is that which is not associated with ego consciousness.
If you observe a content which then disappears for a short time into the unconscious, it is not altered when it comes up again, but if you forget something for a long time, it does not return in the same form; it autonomously evolves or regresses in the other sphere, and therefore one can speak of unconscious as being a sphere, or entity in itself. — Marie-Louise von Franz, The Redemption Motifs in Fairytales, Page 59
