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The Tragic Muse of Modern Psychology: Christiana Morgan- Part 2

As a child, Christiana Morgan understood that she had a soul and that within that soul was a truth. Yet she did not know how to access that truth, or whether it was even possible.

She was in near-constant turmoil.

Now, at age 28, her therapist, Carl Jung, teaches her how to drop into the center of her soul through a technique known as “trancing.”

Once inside the depths, he leads her to access the story roots that code her unconscious self and urges her to capture what she discovers there in drawings and text.

While she’d come to consult with Dr. Jung about her complicated erotic entanglement with Dr. Henry “Harry” Murray, both she and Jung have discovered that the unconscious part of herself, from which she’s felt estranged since childhood, holds something larger than one woman ought to contain.

Jung is astonished by the revelations at the base of Christiana Morgan’s being.

She is revealing things unlike anything anyone has shown him before—indeed, unlike anything anyone had ever seen until that point.

He understands that what exists inside Christiana’s mind is a modern feminine self, a woman of primality and openness; she’s in touch with her sensuality and unafraid of her own sexuality and erotic nature.

To Jung, the images she brings forth are symbolic archetypes that aren’t so much of Christiana’s nature, but of the universe. The universe, it seems to him, lives as a permanent crest inside the body of Christiana Morgan.

The images and words she captures from beneath the surface begin to accumulate. In less than a year, she has amassed 1,000 pages of material she calls the “Analytical Diaries.”

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