Projection in relation to transference--Projection of certain attributes not explicable on the ground of personal contents, but must be referred to the super-personal--Collective unconscious is sediment of all the experience of the universe throughout time--Certain features that have become prominent, _e.g._ gods and demons, are called "dominants" and have a character of universal psychological truth--These dominants become conscious as projections, explaining infatuations, incompatibilities, unconscious conflicts, etc.--The "magical demon" is the most primitive concept of God--Analysis traces home these projections to the non-ego--Fear belongs to the dominants of the collective unconscious--The next step is the detachment of these projections from the objects of consciousness--This liberates energy for further progress--The transcendental function--The hero-myth symbolises this differentiation of ego from non-ego.
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From Collected Papers on Analytical Psychology by Carl Gustav Jung.
