[Jung’s] move between the two orthodoxies of theological religion and clinical scientism re-established in experience the middle realm which he was to call “psychic reality.” This psychic reality discovered by Jung consists in fictive figures. It is poetic, dramatic, literary in nature.
The Platonic metaxy speaks in mythical fictions. Freud’s fictioning appeared disguised in his case histories and his cosmogonic theories; Jung’s appeared overtly in the history of his own case. Freud entered the literary imagination by writing about other people; Jung by envisioning himself as “other people.”
What we learn from Freud is that this literary imagination goes on in the midst of historical fact. What we learn from Jung is that this literary imagination goes on in the midst of ourselves. Poetic, dramatic fictions are what actually people our psychic life. Our life in soul is a life in imagination.
Healing Fiction, The Pandaemonium of Images