Chapter 10: "The Transcendent Function"
010 - A Twin Peaks The Return Essay To Read Between Parts 4 and 5 - A Skeleton Key To Twin Peaks, 2nd Edition
Civilized life today demands concentrated, directed conscious functioning, and this entails the risk of a considerable dissociation from the unconscious. The further we are able to remove ourselves from the unconscious through directed functioning, the more readily a powerful counter position can build up in the unconscious, and when this breaks out it may have disagreeable consequences.
—Carl Jung, “The Transcendent Function”—
REPRESSION FOLLOWED BY AN EXPLOSION, this is what Carl Jung was writing about in the passage quoted above. The psychic explosion is familiar in the universe of Twin Peaks.
As we exit the first four parts of Twin Peaks The Return, it is an excellent time for us to take stock of endings and new beginnings.
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