《女性心理的结构类型》——ToniWolff(21)

现在本身包含了过去和未来。意识的洞察力取决于黑暗的、无意识的种子, 它们已经或将成长为客观的文化价值。正是这种无意识的背景, 被灵媒结构类型所感知。关于这一点你不能认为是超自然心理学的, 虽然常见的灵媒代表它的最低的即最无意识的水平。顺便说一句, 值得注意的是, 最近一段时间福克斯和他的姐妹作为第一个大众传播媒介的出现, 几乎与1848年女性解放的开始相吻合, 这是工业革命的结果。1848年还有另外一个革命性事件, 即马克思和恩格斯出版了“共产主义宣言”, 而教皇庇护九世开始准备圣母玛利亚完美无瑕概念的教条。思想史遵循补偿的法则。
Medium means: in between, neither this nor that, something intermediate, general, neutral, in the middle, a means, agent, mediator, conveyor. The medial woman is immersed in the psychic atmosphere of her environment and the spirit of her period, but above all in the collective (impersonal) unconscious. The unconscious, once it is constellated and can become conscious, exerts an effect. The medial woman is overcome by this effect, she is absorbed and moulded by it and sometimes she represents it herself. She must for instance express or act what "is in the air" , what the environment cannot or will not admit, but what is nevertheless a part of it. It is mostly the dark aspect of a situation or of a predominant idea, and she thus activates what is negative and dangerous. In this way she becomes the carrier of evil, but that she does, is nevertheless exclusively her personal problem. As the contents involved are unconscious, she lacks the necessary faculty of discrimination to perceive and the language to express them adequately. The overwhelming force of the collective unconscious sweeps through the ego of the medial woman and weakens it, while on the other hand the ego of the Amazon is strong, just because she keeps herself out of this abysmal background. By its nature the collective unconscious is not limited to the person concerned-further reason why the medial woman identifies herself and others with archetypal contents. But to deal with the collective unconscious demands a solid ego consciousness and an adequate adaptation to reality. As a rule the medial woman disposes of neither and consequently she will create confusion in the same measure as she herself is confused. Conscious and unconscious, I and you, personal and impersonal psychic contents remain undifferentiated. This may at first be inspiring for the others and in particular for the man, since the medial woman who senses the archetypal foundations of his spirit will activate and, maybe, even represent them for him. She will often personify the impersonal side of his Anima and thus unknowingly draw him into chaotic turmoil by which she will be carried away herself. She scents and animates those psychic contents which should be made conscious, but which do not belong to the partner"s ego and cannot therefore be assimilated without adequate preparation. In this case her influence is destructive and " bewitching" . As objective psychic contents in herself and in others are not understood, or are taken personally, she experiences a destiny not her own as though it were her own and loses herself in ideas which do not belong to her. Instead of being a mediatrix, she is only a means and becomes the first victim of her own nature. But if she possesses the faculty of discrimination, the feeling or the understanding for the specific values and the limits of the conscious and the unconscious, of the personal and the impersonal, of what belongs to the ego and what to the environment, then her faculty to let herself be moulded by the objective psychic contents will enable her to exert a positive cultural influence, comparable to that of the Amazon. In that case, she consecrates herself to the service of a new, maybe yet concealed, spirit of her age, like the early Christian martyrs (20), the female mystics of the Middle Ages (21) or, within a smaller sphere, she devotes herself to the lifework of an individual man, like Gottliebin Dittus, who, out of being possessed, became the collaborator of Blumhardt, whose victory over her demons released his own best forces . Whenever the medieval witches were not merely the victims of male projections and of greed, they represented the split-off evil and the unacceptable heresy of their times.