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

[280]. This true catatonic pendulum movement of the head, I saw arise in the case of a catatonic patient, from the coitus movements gradually shifted upwards. This Freud has described long ago as a shifting from below to above.

[281]. She put the small fragments which fell out into her mouth and ate them.

[282]. “Dreams and Myths.” Vienna 1909. Translated by Wm. A. White, M.D.

[283]. A. Kuhn: “Mythologische Studien,” Vol. I: “Die Herabkunft des Feuers und des Göttertrankes.” Gütersloh 1886. A very readable résumé of the contents is to be found in Steinthal: “Die ursprüngliche Form der Sage von Prometheus,” Zeitschrift für Völkerpsychologie und Sprachwissenschaft, Vol. II, 1862; also in Abraham: Ibid.

[284]. Also mathnâmi and mâthayati. The root manth or math has a special significance.

[285]. Zeitschrift für vergleichende Sprachforschung, Vol. II, p. 395, and Vol. IV, p. 124.

[286]. I learn (that which is learned, knowledge; the act of learning), to take thought beforehand, to Prometheus (forethought).

[287]. Prometheus, the herald of the Titans.

[288]. Bapp in Roscher’s “Lexicon,” Sp. 3034.

[289]. Bhṛgu = φλεγυ, a recognized connection of sound. See Roscher: Sp. 3034, 54.