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Psychic reality (n.) belongs ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠to any idea old enough and believed widely enough — it must be true in some way, if only psychologically.

Psychic reality (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠as pitiless and inexorable as the outer world — and as helpful, if one knows how to circumvent its dangers and find its treasures; its danger grows the more it is denied.

Psychic reality (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠how the irrational's contents should be taken — not as concrete facts, which would be regression, but as real because they work.

Psychic reality (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the only reality we experience immediately: even physical pain is a psychic image, and we are so wrapped in such images that we cannot penetrate at all to the essence of things outside us.

Psychic reality (n.) yields ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠a psychological truth as respectable as physical truth — no one knows what "psyche" is or how far into nature it extends.

Psychic reality (n.) cannot ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠be psychologized away: deny the projection-making factor and you become identical with it.

Psychic reality (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠not nothing: to trace a thing to a psychic fact is not to nullify it but to move it onto a plane easier to establish than the devil of dogma.

Psychic reality (n.) makes ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠everything that psychologically exists psychologically true, for psychology is the sum of what the psyche says about itself — and such things are innumerable.

Psychic reality (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the only existence we know directly, since nothing can be known until it appears as a psychic image; yet we treat the psyche as only half-existent.

Psychic reality (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠no less real than physical reality.

Psychic reality (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠dismissed as "purely psychological" by people who imagine they can conjure the psyche hither and thither — forgetting that most of it is unconscious fact, hard and immitigable as granite, ready to come crashing down.

The Psychic reality (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠hard even for educated moderns to grasp; medieval man had no concept between real things and mere ideas, so he had to put his psychic findings in metaphysical form.

Psychic reality (n.) means ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠a psychic content is as real as a plant or an animal; like the platypus, which no zoological premise predicts, it is an immovable fact and not just someone's opinion.

Psychic reality (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠more primary than the atom, Jung argued: the atom cannot even be shown to exist except through the psyche, which gives it to us only as a model or image.