ABSTRACT
It may easily happen that a collective idea… is represented in a dream only by a subsidiary attribute, as when a god is represented by his theriomorphic attribute… [or] the ‘goddess’ appears as a black cat, and the Deity as the lapis exilis (stone of no worth). Interpretation then demands a knowledge of certain things which have less to do with zoology and mineralogy than with the existence of an historical consensus omnium in regard to the object in question. These ‘mythological aspects’ are always present, even though in a given case they may be unconscious.
( CW, 9ii, paras 55, 57)Archetypes intervene in the shaping of conscious contents by regulating, modifying and motivating them.
( CW, 8, para. 404)