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KMID : 0376719810050020274
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Seoul Journal of Psychiatry
1981 Volume.5 No. 2 p.274 ~ p.286
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Archetypal Images from Experiences of Psychiatric Patients (Ⅱ)
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Abstract
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An 52 years old window who has manifested acute paranoid psychotic symptoms after having Kaman-sistic performance were under psychologic al investigation from the viewpoint of Jung´s an alytical psychology. During shamanistic session sh ebecame repeatedly possessed by the spirit of her husband who has been missed during the Korean War and finally she fell into the psychotic state in whichs lie identifica herself with the daughter of heav-enly God; OK Whang Sang Je or Buddha himself. She believed to be poisoned by the evil minded nurse and intern. In the hospital she urgently de-manded that the therapist should crush the rock which was hidden underneath the floor of interv-iew room and he should free a person,a precious stone, or herself in that rock. This rem inds us ofthe alchemical opus, a symbolical exp ression ofthe individuation process according to Jung.
The patient was discharged after 26 days hospital stay in much improved state. The unconscious manifestations in symptoms, dreams, and drawings of the patient were also taken into consideration from the standpoint of analytical psychology and the author made an attempt at understanding of symbolical meanings of each images which the patient has produced. The development of delusional ideations of this case was characterized by a successive transformation of personal complexes into the collective archetypal complexs, as if patient´s personal feeling complexes attached to de-ceased husband has mobilized deep seated layers of the collective unconscious. The increasing sharpening of the opposite aspect of each images and the constant repetition of psychic enantiodromia in her ideational world were also noted.
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