CATEGORY: MOVIES
There is some material in Carl Jung's The Psychology of the Transference that we can apply to this analysis:
"The time-sequence of phases in the opus is very uncertain. We see the same uncertainty in the individuation process, so that a typical sequence of stages can only be constructed in very general terms. The deeper reason for this 'disorder' is probably the 'timeless' quality of the unconscious..."[a]
The indefiniteness in the time sequence of the process of individuation explains the fact that in the chronology of The Silence of the Lambs, Clarice Starling encounters her shadow (Catherine Martin) after experiencing some of her animus figures; for encounters with animus figures are generally taken to follow the encounter with the shadow. In terms of the alchemical opus, Starling's nigredo (the opus's first stage) has not been completed prior to her experiencing part of her albedo (the second stage).
a. Jung, C.G. The Psychology of the Transference. New York: Bollingen Foundation, 1966. p. 96n.
Tuesday, September 14, 2010
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