![]() ![]() ![]() Mythology of the soul a research into the unconscious from schizophrenic dreams and drawings by H. In case 2- the subject was an artist- and out of his own split he seemed to have created a symbolic bridge that would be a therapeutic bridge for himself and a possible model for curing the evil of the times in which we then were living. Baynes, 1940, Baillière, Tindall and Cox edition, in English. ![]() Baynes then demonstrates the emergence and development of a hero myth together with its therapeutic effect upon the patient- as an inner personal experience of death and rebirth.īaynes also applied the methods of synthesis to the understanding of modern art and its reflection of the spirit of the times – a realization of the basic split in the socio-religious structure of European Culture. In case 1- the series of dreams- fantasies and active imagination- fully illustrated by the patients’ spontaneous paintings- suggested to him a kind of mythological imagery. It was Baynes’s grasp of the meaning of the symbol coupled with his wide scholarship that enable him to explore the case-histories in such remarkable and fruitful depth- thus linking pathological psychology through graphic expression and the dream of the myths of mankind and the universal man. ![]() Originally published in 1940- this classic study of two schizophrenic case-histories further opened up the seemingly intractable problem of this condition a task preceded by Jung’s own Psychology of Dementia Praecox. ![]()
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