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[225] "The archetype, as a glance at the history of religious phenomena will show, has a characteristically numinous effect, so that the subject is gripped by it as though by an instinct. What is more, instinct itself can be restrained and even overcome by this power, a fact for which there is no need to advance proofs."

[224] "it was manifestly not a question of inherited ideas, but of an inborn disposition to produce parallel thought-formations, or rather of identical psychic structures common to all men, which I later called the archetypes of the collective unconscious. They correspond to the concept of the “pattern of behaviour” in biology"
Assassins Creed universe says hi.

[222] "Notwithstanding our rationalistic attempts to argue it out of existence, psychic reality is and remains a genuine source of anxiety whose danger increases the more it is denied."

[221] "Our religions and political ideologies are methods of salvation and propitiation which can be compared with primitive ideas of magic, and where such “collective representations” are lacking their place is immediately taken by all sorts of private idiocies and idiosyncrasies, manias, phobias, and daemonisms whose primitivity leaves nothing to be desired, not to speak of the psychic epidemics of our time..."

[221] "primitive man is often very much more afraid of an “inner” reality—the world of dreams, ancestral spirits, demons, gods, magicians, and witches."

[219] Speaking of sexuality as a core thing, "it naturally seems as if all one’s troubles were due to a sexual wish that is unjustly denied fulfilment. This reasoning is typical of the neurotic. Primitives seem to know instinctively the dangers of this deviation."

[219] " the rhythmic tendency does not come from the nutritional phase at all, as if it had migrated from there to the sexual, but that it is a peculiarity of emotional processes in general...instead of sexuality particularly."

[218] "Now when the libido is forced back by an obstacle, it does not necessarily regress to earlier sexual modes of application, but rather to the rhythmic activities of infancy which serve as a model both for the act of nutrition and for the sexual act itself."

[216] " Of all the components of the psyche, sex is undoubtedly the one with the strongest affective tone. Certain persons are therefore inclined to assume that everything which bears an obvious analogy to sex must of necessity be derived from it, on the hypothesis that the sexual libido comes up against some sort of barrier which compels it to seek a substitute activity in the form of a ritual analogy."

[214] the reference [21], the plough and its sexuality/fertilization meanings, when, in Shadow of War, Talion picks up a corsair's plough, Celebrimbor goes super awkward, questions him immediately....well, Monolith you guys really did a lot of shipping things in subtle ways.

[213] "The ceremonial or magical repetition of this age-old discovery shows how persistently the human mind clings to the old forms, and how deep-rooted is the memory of fire-boring...fire making - sexuality."

[206] "A considerable part of the energy supplied by nutrition for growth has to convert itself into sexual libido and other forms of activity.This transition does not take place suddenly at the time of puberty, as is commonly supposed, but only very gradually during the course of childhood...two distinct phases: the phase of sucking, and the phase of rhythmic activity in general."

[202-203] "If, for “complex,” we substitute the idea of “energy value,” i.e., the total affectivity of the complex. ... countless analogies,... a positively overwhelming importance attaches to the little word “like” in the history of human thought. ... canalization of libido into analogy-making was responsible for some of the most important discoveries ever made by primitive man."

[201] "old superstitions were symbols that sought to give adequate expression to the unknown in the world (and in the psyche)...Thus a symbol seems to me to owe its origin to the striving of a complex for dissolution in the common totality of thought. The complex is thus robbed of its personal quality. This tendency towards dissolution or transformation of every individual complex is of every form art."

[199] "Instinct is a very mysterious manifestation of life, partly psychic and partly physiological by nature. It is one of the most conservative functions in the psyche and is extremely difficult, if not impossible, to change...A loss of the latest acquisitions of the reality function (or adaptation) must of necessity be replaced, if at all, by an earlier mode of adaptation...regressive reactivation."

[199] "Instinct is a very mysterious manifestation of life, partly psychic and partly physiological by nature. It is one of the most conservative functions in the psyche and is extremely difficult, if not impossible, to change...A loss of the latest acquisitions of the reality function (or adaptation) must of necessity be replaced, if at all, by an earlier mode of adaptation."

[198] "Or again, he compares the One with the Father and the intellect with the Son.16 The One, designated as Uranos, is transcendent; the Son (Kronos) has dominion over the visible world; and the world-soul (Zeus) is subordinate to him."
....my eyes are burning......well, despite of these incredible level of incest whatever, there implies a danger as the lower one is capable of overthrowing the higher one.

[198] "To the Neoplatonist Plotinus, the world-soul is the energy of the intellect.15 He compares the One, the primordial creative principle, with light, the intellect with the sun (♂), and the world-soul with the moon (♀)...The intellect is its progenitor and father, and what the intellect conceives the world-soul brings to birth in reality...The soul is fructified by the intellect."
And...see the next note..omg

[197] "As Schopenhauer says: “The Will as a thing-in-itself is quite different from its phenomenal manifestation, and entirely free from all forms of phenomenality, which it assumes only when it becomes manifest, and which therefore affect its objectivity only, and are foreign to the Will itself.”"

[195] the concept of libido as desire or appetite is an interpretation of the process of psychic energy, which we experience precisely in the form of an appetite. We know as little about what underlies it as we know about what the psyche is per se.

[195] "throwing of psychological perceptions into material reality is known in philosophy as “introjection.”"

[195] "There we see only a continuous life-urge, a will to live which seeks to ensure the continuance of the whole species through the preservation of the individual. Thus far our conception of libido coincides with Schopenhauer’s Will, inasmuch as a movement perceived from outside can only be grasped as the manifestation of an inner will or desire"

[194-195] " Libido is appetite in its natural state. From the genetic point of view it is bodily needs like hunger, thirst, sleep, and sex, and emotional states or affects, which constitute the essence of libido. fertilization made necessary were progressively reduced..The original sexual character of these biological phenomena gradually disappears as they become organically fixed and achieve functional independent."

[193]"As Freud himself has pointed out, introversion and regression of sexual libido leads, at the worst, to neurosis, but not to schizophrenia."
This will be explained later, the separation of something, the lesser mental being, animatic desires, how this part is something to be sacrificed and even the part that consciously to do the wrong... which can be explained by the heroes sacrificing their whole beings.

[190] "We regard instinct as being the concept on the frontier-line between the somatic and the mental, and see in it the psychical representative of organic forces...we accept the popular distinction between ego-instincts and a sexual instinct;... on the one hand at self-preservation and on the other at the preservation of the species."

[186] St. Augustine aptly defines libido as a “general term for all desire”

[183-184] The crippled gods - foot, generative power - deformed but powerful dwarves sons - infantile gods, divine boys (the puer aeternus, παίς, the young Dionysus, Jupiter Anxurus, Tages, etc.) - father and son, old and young, the paradox of big and small - Wise and Fool, Will and Libido
.....umm, like the Lothric twin princes?