The Exorcist and the Spiritual Problem of Modern Woman

The archetype is not evoked by will; it appears in a situation which demands compensation (spontaneous archetypal intervention). Religion calls such happenings "God's will." A situation may present one with illness or endanger one's life. Consciousness finds this state overwhelming. Even people who boast no particular religious belief find themselves forced involuntarily to give way to prayer: that is, the archetype of a helpful being is constellated producing at the last moment a turn which is felt to be miraculous C. G. Jung A letter (modified), written February 1960, in Spring, 1961. It appears almost incredible to us that late into the 18th century it should have been possible that emotional confusions and erotic abberations of phantasy were brought in relation to demons and witchcraft. States of " possession," "obsession" or certain types of "imagination," but above all "anaestesia," the stigma diaboli par excellence, mutism, sleep-walking and convulsive states. were all condemned as the work of demons Liliane Frey-Rohn from The Beginning of Depth Psychology