In reply to a private email asking if while referring to the Jungian self as a demiurge I intended something like Plato’ Timeaus, there are two commonly know interpretations for the term demiurge. From the Merriam’s-Webster Collegiate Dictionnaire: a) a platonic subordinate deity who fashions the sensible world in the light of eternal ideas b) a Gnostic subordinate deity who is the creator of the material world. By the way, the Gnostics interpreted the second as extremely negative. But I have used the term demiurge as the Merriam’s-Webster Collegiate Dictionnaire interprets it in common parlance: c) one that is an autonomous creative force or decisive power. Thanks to RYD for putting together references to Jung by other Aurobindonians. I will send to him a separate posting concerning the Jungian self, with quotes from Jung, Indra Sen and Satya Prakash Singh, the two aurobindonian professors who saw an analogy between it and the psychic being. As an example, this quote from Sen: ““Says he, [Jung], “the centre of personality acts like a magnet upon the disparate materials and processes of the conscious and like a crystal grating, catches them one by one.” It thus has an integrating and a harmonising function. The parallelism between the psychic being and the centre of Jung is most interesting. Even their functions are broadly the same.”” However, there are other far reaching considerations pointing not only at the psychic being, but directly to what the Hindu scriptures (and Jung) call the Atman. But we’ll see all this in an independent posting. As for Freud, unfortunately not many are aware of how far he went from his original concept of libido, with all that follows, also under the influence on him of Romain Rolland, his alter-ego. And the first ones most resisting Freud’s change are the Freudian analysts! Nothing new under the sun… Paulette Reference: I. Sen, Integral Psychology: The Psychological System of Sri Aurobindo (In Original Words and in Elaborations), Sri Aurobindo Ashram Publications Department, Pondicherry, 1st edition 1986, p.183.