By William Shakespeare
(This quantity includes a chronology of Shakespeare and his instances (4pp), an creation to the play (8pp), a statement at the textual content (32 pp) after which the textual content interspersed on exchange pages with notes at the play giving meanings of previous phrases, value of allusions and so forth, through views at the play (20 pp) and a last bibliography. This quantity is ok for normal examining yet presents more information as and should you wish it. excellent for scholar of the play)
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It might be more precise, however, to say not that the collective unconscious is timeless but that it transcends and includes all time—past, present, and future. Like other things in Jungian psychology, however, his theory of time is not without at least one contradiction. When he writes about future time in Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle, he argues that “it would be absurd to suppose that a situation which does not yet exist and will only occur in the future could transmit itself as a phenomenon of energy to a receiver in the present” (CW 8, 840/ 435).
One is a sort of imageor idea-making capacity; the other is an actual created image or idea in consciousness, visual art, or a literary text. In short, the collective unconscious sums up “the mental history of mankind” (CW 7, 108/68), and when it is put to artistic purposes (rather than being projected onto a therapist in the transference process), it enables what Jung calls the visionary mode of artistic creation. A further characteristic of the collective unconscious deserves development—its timeless nature.
Like Paul, one can access it while still alive with the help of the Holy Spirit,59 but imagination may enable something similar. To the extent that the archetypal is spiritual, what Jung calls the “active imagination”—a “switching off [of] consciousness, at least to a relative extent,” meaning presumably a switching off of reason (CW 11, 875/537)—enables transcendent experience. 60 Here Shakespeare seems out of step with such orthodox thinking as John Colet’s commentary on 1 Corinthians: “‘By no human resources, by no faculty of reason even in its highest vigour .