The personal unconscious contains repressed materials capable of becoming conscious--By also incorporating the impersonal contents the state of God-Almightiness is brought about--The "persona" a mask for the collective psyche--Development of God-Almightiness, physical concomitants--Dissolution of the persona results in release of phantasy--Analogy with mental derangement--Difference consists in that the unconscious is at first deliberately brought into consciousness by consent, and later that it is recognised as having psychic validity only.
IV. ENDEAVOURS TO FREE THE INDIVIDUALITY FROM THE COLLECTIVE PSYCHE 459
(i) _The Regressive Restoration of the Persona_--Three ways open, (_a_) Regressive application of a reductive theory; (_b_) application of God-Almightiness as a "virile protest;" (_c_) recognition of the primitive archaic collective psychology in man--Temptation to solve the difficulty by forgetting one has an unconscious--This does not work--The unconscious cannot be deprived of libido, nor its activity stilled for any length of time.
(ii) _Identification with the Collective Psyche_--God-Almightiness developed into a system--Identification increases feeling for life or sense of power, according to the type--This, mystically understood, is the "yearning for the mother" of the hero-myth, or the "incest-wish" of Freud--It is the collective psyche that has to be overcome--Identification with the collective psyche is a failure because being lost in it, a bearable or satisfactory life is impossible.
