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Carl Gustav Jung
Collected Papers on Analytical Psychology Section section-0166
Section 166 of 508
Canonical reference section-0166
English
Various; edited by Constance E. Long
The infantile attitude here, it is evident, is nothing but infantile sexuality. If now we survey all the far-reaching possibilities of the infantile constellation, we are forced to say that in essence our life's fate is identical with the fate of our sexuality . If Freud and his school devote themselves first and foremost to tracing out the individual's sexuality it is certainly not in order to excite piquant sensations, but to gain a deeper insight into the driving forces that determine that individual's fate. In this we are not saying too much, rather understating the case. If we can strip off the veils shrouding the problems of individual destiny, we can afterwards widen our view from the history of the individual to the history of nations. And first of all we can look at the history of religions, at the history of the phantasy-systems of whole peoples and epochs. The religion of the Old Testament elevated the paterfamilias to the Jehovah of the Jews whom the people had to obey in fear and dread. The Patriarchs are an intermediate stage towards the deity. The neurotic fear and dread of the Jewish religion, the imperfect, not to say unsuccessful attempt at the sublimation of a still too barbarous people, gave rise to the excessive [173] severity of the Mosaic Law, the ceremonial constraint of the neurotic. [159]
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Codex gpt-5.6-sol · Non-official working translation · 2026-09-11
L’attitude infantile, cela est ici évident, n’est rien d’autre que la sexualité infantile. Si nous considérons maintenant toutes les possibilités de vaste portée de la constellation infantile, nous sommes contraints de dire que, par essence, le destin de notre vie est identique au destin de notre sexualité. Si Freud et son école se consacrent avant tout à retracer la sexualité de l’individu, ce n’est certainement pas afin de susciter des sensations piquantes, mais pour acquérir une compréhension plus profonde des forces motrices qui déterminent le destin de cet individu. En disant cela, nous ne disons pas trop, nous restons plutôt en deçà de la vérité. Si nous pouvons arracher les voiles qui recouvrent les problèmes du destin individuel, nous pourrons ensuite élargir notre regard de l’histoire de l’individu à l’histoire des nations. Et nous pouvons d’abord considérer l’histoire des religions, l’histoire des systèmes de fantaisie de peuples et d’époques entiers. La religion de l’Ancien Testament éleva le paterfamilias au rang de Jéhovah des Juifs, auquel le peuple devait obéir dans la crainte et l’effroi. Les Patriarches constituent une étape intermédiaire vers la divinité. La peur et l’effroi névrotiques propres à la religion juive, la tentative imparfaite, pour ne pas dire infructueuse, de sublimation d’un peuple encore trop barbare, donnèrent naissance à l’excessive [173] sévérité de la Loi mosaïque, à la contrainte cérémonielle du névrosé. [159]
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