--- Joseph R Lee, This Jungian Life podcast, episode 172 - Archetypes
When he [CG Jung] or other clinicians began to feel that an individual's psyche was on the verge of a major archetypal activation, he would task them with reading fairytales endlessly, reading mythology endlessly, so that there would be images and structures other than just the personal life within which this archetypal god could inhabit, and minimize the damage to the individual. So I would venture to say that [42:09] studying archetypes, mythology and fairytales is a kind of vaccination against archetypal possession.
