![]() ![]() ![]() 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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