![]() ![]() Through him the distinction was clarified between myself and the object of my thought. He said I treated thoughts as if I generated them myself, but in his view thoughts were like animals in the forest, or people in a room, or birds in the air, and added, “If you should see people in a room, you would not think that you had made those people, or that you were responsible for them.” It was he who taught me psychic objectivity, the reality of the psyche. For I observed clearly that it was he who spoke, not I. In my fantasies I held conversations with him, and he said things which I had not consciously thought. ![]() Philemon represented a force which was not myself. “Philemon and other figures of my fantasies brought home to me the crucial insight that there are things in the psyche which I do not produce, but which produce themselves and have their own life. ![]()
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