ABSTRACT
How different hysteria looks when we add the star back into the equation! And how much more valuable the Holy Family appears, even in its fallen, hystericized form!
Approaching the psyche in the light of his theory of archetypes, Jung writes of “revers[ing] our rationalistic causal sequence,” when it comes to “autonomous images” such as Christ and Mercurius, and “instead of deriving these figures from our psychic conditions . . . deriv[ing] our psychic conditions from these figures.”3
