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From a dream-like musing of Miss Miller to the determination to redefine the libido by Dr. Jung, something transformative happens and literature scholar should take note. The journey of the hero has been essentially mapped out in the many allusion drawn from his symbolic analysis. If I had more space on my bookshelf, I’d be curious to find out how much Joseph Campbell relied upon Symbols of Transformation.

" A repressed conflict and its affective tone must reappear somewhere. The projection caused by repression is not something that the individual consciously does or makes; it follows automatically and, as such, is not recognized unless there are quite special conditions which enforce its withdrawal."

"Nothing remains for mankind but to work in harmony
with this (God's) will. To work in harmony with the libido does not mean letting oneself drift with it, for the psychic forces have no uniform direction, but are often directly opposed to one another. A mere letting go of oneself leads in the shortest space of time to the most hopeless confusion."

"What is evidently in question here is the displacement of libido on to a symbolical object, with the result that the latter is turned into a sort of substitute. It is in itself a perfectly genuine experience, though, like everything else, it can be put to improper use."

"The unconscious is, in fact, the condensation of the average run of historical experience."

One might describe the theatre, somewhat unaesthetically, as an
institution for working out private complexes in public

Non-directed thinking is in the main subjectively motivated, and not so much by conscious motives as—far more—by unconscious ones. It certainly produces a world-picture very different from that of conscious, directed thinking. But there is no real ground for assuming that it is nothing more than a distortion of the objective world-picture, (grounded in instinct, aka fact)

"Everyone who has his eyes and wits about him can
see that the world is dead, cold, and unending"