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Philemon Jung

The document discusses Carl Jung's experience with his fantasy figure Philemon through active imagination. Jung held conversations with Philemon in his fantasies where Philemon said things Jung did not consciously think and taught Jung about psychic objectivity and the reality of the psyche being distinct from one's thoughts.

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Philemon Jung

The document discusses Carl Jung's experience with his fantasy figure Philemon through active imagination. Jung held conversations with Philemon in his fantasies where Philemon said things Jung did not consciously think and taught Jung about psychic objectivity and the reality of the psyche being distinct from one's thoughts.

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Active Imagination

“Philemon and other figures of my fantasies


brought home to me the crucial insight that there
are things in the psyche which I do not produce,
but which produce themselves and have their own
life. Philemon represented a force which was not
myself. In my fantasies I held conversations with
him, and he said things which I had not
consciously thought. For I observed clearly that it
was he who spoke, not I. He said I treated
thoughts as if I generated them myself, but in his
view thoughts were like animals in the forest, or
people in a room, or birds in the air, and added, “If
you should see people in a room, you would not
think that you had made those people, or that you
were responsible for them.” It was he who taught
me psychic objectivity, the reality of the psyche.
Through him the distinction was clarified between
myself and the object of my thought. He
confronted me in an objective manner, and I
understood that there is something in me which
can say things that I do not know and do not
intend, things which may even be directed against
me.” Carl Jung

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Lewis Lafontaine
https://carljungdepthpsychologysite.
blog/2020/05/27/philemon-in-the-red-
book-anthology/#.Y0gYEnbMK3A

carljungdepthpsychologysite.blog
“Philemon” in The Red Book
– Anthology

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Gethyn Williams
Yeah well done Carl. You grew up the
son of a pastor immersed in biblical
texts and the cultural output of ancient
civilisations. I’m not surprised you had
Philemon as a shadow figure. I was
born in the 70s and my Dad fixed cars
for a living. In my AI I’m expected to
meet David Hasselhoff.

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Eve Bah
Philemon is our higher self ( spirit)
active separate from soul guiding us in
journey of self discovery.
Western world calls it active
imagination .
Read somato emotional release by dr
up ledger he was highly tune to him ,
calling him inner doctor
In Talmud it’s called “ Elohim Ruach
within us known as supreme conscious

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Kevin C. Murphy
Saint Ignatius Loyola often spoke of
active imagination. Is that the same
thing as what Carl Jung is talking
about?

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Byron Gaist Kevin C. Murphy Jun...

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