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Spirit. An model and a useful complex, often come to life and veteran as enlivening, similar to what the archaic mind textile to be an invisible, breathlike "presence."

Spirit, like God, denotes an entity of mystic go through which cannot be proved to be there in the noticeable worldwide and cannot be understood sensibly. This is its intent if we use the expression "spirit" in its world-class undergo.

The model of heart in the outward appearance of a man, hobgoblin, or fleshly e'er appears in a setting where on earth insight, understanding, solid advice, determination, planning, etc., are required but cannot be mustered on one's own equipment. The archetype compensates this spell out of religious lesser amount by listing designed to sufficiency the gap.["The Phenomenology of the Spirit in Fairytales," CW 9i, par. 398.]

Carl Jung was vivid in distinguishing between character as a mental theory and its traditional use in holiness.

From the psychological prickle of view, the development of spirit, like all self-governing complex, appears as an goal of the insensible first-class to, or at least on a par with, intentions of the ego. If we are to do justness to the inwardness of the entity we telephone spirit, we should genuinely talk of a "higher" consciousness a bit than of the comatose. ["Spirit and Life," CW 8, par. 643.]

The prevailing recent idea of heart ill accords next to the Christian view, which regards it as the summum bonum, as God himself. To be sure, nearby is too the content of an brutal life principle. But the present-day mental object cannot be equated next to that either, since for us spirit is not necessarily evil; we would have to telephone call it religiously indifferent or dull.[The Phenomenology of the Spirit in Fairytales," CW 9i, par. 394.]