Return To The Spiritual Home - Jung's Collective Unconscious And Aesthetic Ideas

Jung's Aesthetics was established on his Analytic Psychology, and served for the very core of his theory-collective unconscious. Through respecting the independence of spirit, he wanted to help modern man who felt anxious, depressed and vacuity to go back spiritual home.Jung criticized that Freud's Psychology was a "Psychology without mentality "which was established on material metaphysics, and his own Psychology was a "Psychology with mentality "which was established on spiritual metaphysics. Based on Freud's personal unconscious, Jung came up with collective unconscious, which have more general and original meaning. It existed before personal unconscious, and it is the human's common and universal mind basis. The content of collective unconscious is archetype. Jung wanted to build a bridge from innate spirit to postnatal experience by archetype and primordial image. However, the elaboration of his theory revealed his theory's contradiction between innate spirit and postnatal experience.Jung's Aesthetics was established on his theory of collective unconscious: artistic creation process is a expression of collective unconscious and archetype; artists are spokesmen of collective unconscious and human being; the essence of artistic composition is that writer transcend his individual limitation and talk to the human race's soul; social significance of art is that it edify the soul of the era, summon the form the era lacks of; compensate the one-sided and privation of the era consciousness . Jung wanted to build a road from collective unconscious, which stays deeply in the human race's soul to consciousness, which stay superficially in modern man's mentality. He wanted to guide people who are oppressed by modern material go back the human race's spiritual home. Jung's theory had a far-reaching influence on Philosophy, Aesthetics, Psychology, Anthropology, Mythology, etc in the 20th century.