it was not until the publication of his essay ‘The spirit of psychology’ (1947; revised in CW 8 as ‘On the nature of the psyche’, 1954) that he finally freed himself of the Lamarckian taint, making a clear distinction between the deeply unconscious and therefore unknowable and irrepresentable archetype-as-such (similar to Kant’s das Ding-an-sich) and the archetypal images, ideas and behaviours that the archetype-as-such gives rise to.
