Psychology of the Unconscious / A Study of the Transformations and Symbolisms of the Libido. A Contribution to the History of the Evolution of Thought

by C. G. Jung

[271]. His researches are in my possession and their publication is in preparation.

[272]. Honegger made use of this example in his lecture at the private psychoanalytic congress in Nürnberg, 1910.

[273]. Spielrein: Ibid., pp. 338, 353, 387. For soma as the “effusion of the seed,” see what follows.

[274]. Compare Berthelot: “Les Alchémistes Grecs,” and Spielrein: Ibid., p. 353.

[275]. I cannot refrain from observing that this vision reveals the original meaning of alchemy. A primitive magic power for generation, that is to say, a means by which children could be produced without the mother.

[276]. Spielrein: Ibid., pp. 338, 345.

[277]. I must mention here those Indians who create the first people from the union of a sword hilt and a shuttle.

[278]. Ibid., p. 399.

CHAPTER III

[279]. Naturally a precursor of onanism.