ABSTRACT
C. G. Jung held that the modern Western world was sick because it had excluded so much that seemed “other.” So Jung as a writer tries to address the long marginalization of this psychic Other, summoning into his texts what has haunted modernity as “the feminine,” the body, nature, myth, and the unconscious. Western modernity was built upon a Christian religion that privileges separation, duality, and rationality as the expression of a Sky Father myth. Dreams are the direct expressions of the unconscious; they are not of secondary reality to some concealed desire. Archetypal images, by contrast, came to stand for psychic activity that had never been repressed, that was striving through the darkness for expression. While the body and its psychic boundaries are independent in relation to the person, for Jung the most fundamental mother is the collective unconscious itself.
