ATTITUDES TOWARD THE UNCONSCIOUS

As a keynote to a conference bringing together psychoanalysts and anal ytical psychologists, this paper addresses different mythic attitudes toward the unconscious, starting with the caricatures of Oedipus and N arcissus that the author feels Jung and Freud originally projected ont o each other in the course of their quarrel. He moves on to the fairyt ale-like stories of Perseus and Beauty and the Beast to discover more complex images of the stance taken in relation to the unconscious by p resent-day analysts working within both the Jungian and the Freudian t raditions.