Soul Search

Like the Anasazi in the works of fiction by Kathleen O'Neal Gear and W. Michael Gear, Jung saw that we all have many aspects within us. And like the Gears' characters in their novels, we need to give much care to our multiple "souls" or parts lest they become dark and attack us in ghostly fashion to the ruin of all. In order to do so, we must be open to the messages we receive from the collective unconscious, the mirroring of our psychic dramas in dreams, myths, fairy tales and other symbol systems - even in literature. As Jung says, "One must learn to know oneself in order to know who one is." (21)

References and Suggestions for Further Reading:

Beowulf

Gardner, John, Grendel. New York: Alfred Knof, 1971

Gear, Kathleen O'Neal and W. Michael, The People of Silence and The Visitant. New York: Tom Doherty Associates, 1996 and 1999 respectively

Gilgamesh

Jung, C.G., The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious. Second Ed. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press

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