ABSTRACT
Late in his life, Jung voiced concern that after his death his psychology, which he viewed as a modern form of soul, would lose the vitality which burst forth at its inception. Without this living presence keeping it alive, rooted, and “objective”, Jung feared his psychology would become interred in dry concepts and fundamentally misunderstood. This chapter examines Jungian psychology’s founding story, that is, Jung’s “confrontation with the unconscious” from the perspective of “interiority, in other words, as the soul’s confrontation with itself.” It tries to show that through not only the negation/sublation of its old forms (religion and myth) but also the subjective, egoic activities and concerns of Jung the person, the soul came into its new form, that of psychology. The chapter describes how logical negation, present as the “Not” in “It’s Not Art!”, is constitutive to psychology’s requisite sublated perspective and is the living spirit that keeps it from becoming entombed in applications foreign to its nature.
