ABSTRACT
C. G. Jung is committed to a logic of externality and otherness. For him, the Red Book as an object has its truth, origin, and reality not in itself, but fundamentally outside of itself, in the literal experiences that gave rise to it. Because the event of the overwhelming experience is what really counts, he could not radically release the fantasy substance itself of his experience into its own, into logically being fantasy, having the form of fantasy, being art. Art comes into being through the relentless interiorization of the positivity of the empirical experience and its “realistic” content into the negativity of the form of mere fantasy. But all art is of “conscious structure” through and through, otherwise dogs would be able to appreciate a statue or painting as art rather than as a mere thing.
