ABSTRACT
Friedrich Schiller concerns himself at the very outset with the question of the cause and origin of the separation of the functions. “One-sidedness in the exercise of powers, it is true, inevitably leads the individual into error, but the race to truth,” says Schiller. The privileged position of the superior function is as detrimental to the individual as it is valuable to society. Schiller’s formula could be carried out only by applying a ruthless power standpoint, with never a scruple about justice for the object nor any conscientious examination of its own competence. Schiller’s term for the symbol, “living form,” is happily chosen, because the constellated fantasy material contains images of the psychological development of the individuality in its successive states—a sort of preliminary sketch or representation of the onward way between the opposites.
