The WorLd WithiN

When you observe the world, you see people, you see houses, you see the sky,
you see tangible objects.
But when you observe yourself within, you
see
moving images,
a world of images generally known as fantasies. Yet these fantasies are facts.

You see, it is a fact that a man has such and such fantasy.
and it is such a tangible fact, that when a man has a certain fantasy
another man may lose his life. Or a bridge is built.
These houses were all fantasies.
Everything
you
do
here,
all these houses we sit in... everything was a fantasy to begin with.

And fantasy has a proper reality…that is not to be forgotten. Fantasy is not nothing.
It is of course not a tangible object, but it is a fact nevertheless. It is a form of energy,
despite the fact we can’t measure it. It is a manifestation of something, and that is a reality.















text : Carl Gustav Jung, from interview with Dr. Richard Evans, 1957
images : Daniel Gordon is an American artist that lives and work in Brooklyn.

* video : The World Within, C.G. Jung in His Own Words, 1990
a 1hr documentary film which shows some edited parts of this 1957 interview

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