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those dreamlike regions which seem to lead to some inevitable
reality of despair. But in order for Descartes to arrive finally at
the true “shelter” and to find the genuine “remedy,” he must
endure other trials. The spontaneous act by which he turns
toward God does not possess at this moment the necessary
efficacy: it is not pure spontaneity; it is not addressed directly
to a God of the present, but to a God of the past . . .
The denuding of conscious life and its reduction to a single level
created the new world of the unconscious in the seventeenth
century. The stage has been cleared of the archetypes or
postures of individual mind, and is ready for the archetypes of
the collective unconscious.
* It is thus that the seventeenth century, having emerged into
a merely visual science in its conscious life, is reduced to