Source 265:The following quotes about Carl Jung come from an edited extract from the book Life of Jung by Ronald Hayman that appeared in The Sydney Morning Herald magazine Good Weekend on 5 Feb. 2000.

‘He [Jung] claimed to have acquired the knack of catching unconscious material “in flagrante”, and his [1963] book Memories, Dreams, Reflections suggests his behaviour was heroic—that he was making a dangerous expedition into the unconscious for the sake of scientific discovery. Several dreams involved subterranean staircases and caverns, which suggested that his fantasies were located somewhere underground. In December 1913, he says, he decided to drop downwards. “I let myself fall, It was as if the floor literally gave way underneath me and I plummeted into dark depths”…It took about three years to recover from the [resulting psychological] breakdown…It was during Jung’s breakdown that he arrived at some of his most important concepts…Had it not been for his breakdown, Jung might never have developed the technique he called active imagination, based on conversations with his anima [the more soulful, feminine, truthful and less egocentric, soul-denying and truthless masculine side of himself] and with fantasy figures. He told patients to draw or paint characters from dreams or fantasies, and to interrogate them. This was like praying to an internal god, “for there are answers inside you if you are not afraid of them”. It was a matter of “letting the unconscious come up”.’

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