How else could it have occurred to man to divide the cosmos, on the analogy of day and night, summer and winter, into a bright day-world and a dark night-world peopled with fabulous monsters, unless he had the prototype of such a division in himself, in the polarity between the conscious and the invisible and unknowable unconscious? β¨ Carl Gustav Jung (1981). The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious, p.101, Princeton University Press
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