I am inclined to assume that she is more probably a spirit than an archetype, although she presumably represents both at the same time. Altogether, it seems to me that spirits tend increasingly to coalesce with archetypes. For archetypes can behave exactly like real spirits, so that communications like Betty’s could just as well come from an indubi

He says that in his professional writings he uses the term ‘the unconscious’, but is aware that he ‘might equally well speak of “God” or “daimon” if I wished to express myself in mythic language’.

In fact, all the deities of the ancient theologies were known to the initiated as the inhabitants not of Olympus but of the human soul. They were not mere products of man’s imagination any more than his heart, lungs, and stomach are products of his imagination. On the contrary, they were very real forces belonging both to nature (the macrocosm), an

You could call it Jung’s “Book of the Dead,” in many respects.