"Every new beginning of consciousness, every essential process of consciousness, must first arise from such a state [blocking resistances]; only then is the human being open-minded enough to let the new element in & let things happen." ~Marie-Louise von Franz, Creation Myths, 37
"Many creative people start their creativity with terrific #depression. They have such a well-constructed & strong #ego consciousness that the unconscious must use very strong means—send them a hellish depression—before they can loosen up enough to let things happen." ~von Franz
"I have noticed that people who tend to have those creative depressions, if they can anticipate them by playing, need not have the #depression, & whenever one can induce a person in such a heavy depression to start playing in some way, the state of depression is lifted at once…
"…for the secret final intention of that kind of #depression is, as the word says, to depress, to lower the level of consciousness so that these processes can come into action." ~Marie-Louise von Franz, Ph.D., Jungian analyst, Creation Myths, p. 37
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