ABSTRACT

In keeping with Joseph Campbell's characterization of underlining sentences as a kind of yoga, the author shall be dwelling in what follows with that line from Jung that the reader's pen laid claim to as his mantra—dwelling with it, delving into it, reading and re-reading it. It may also be said that he shall be meditating upon it. For having underlined, as many of us have, Jung's sentence, "I am only that!", it is we who must prove ourselves worthy of that designation, if only by going back over the chapter from which we have been quoting and understanding it in some other way. Psychology, too, loses the firm objective basis it seemed to have as an empirically determined science of the psyche when, in the spirit of being "only that", it is speculatively thrown back upon itself by the already psychological character of the topics and subject matters it had at first unwittingly posited itself as.