The Seba library treats Cryptomnesia in 6 passages, across 3 authors (including Jung, Carl Gustav, Jung, C.G., Jung, C. G.).
I should say that cryptomnesic reproduction is very unlikely. It appears to be a case of genuine, spontaneous production of a collective archetype.
Jung rules out cryptomnesia as an explanation for specific mediumistic symbolic content, using its implausibility to assert the spontaneous, collective-archetypal origin of the material.
, The Structure and Dynamics of the Psyche, 1960thesis
every single one of them could be explained by the actually existing knowledge in the unconscious (cryptomnesia, clairvoyance, etc.).
Jung positions cryptomnesia as one of several unconscious-knowledge hypotheses available to explain apparently paranormal communications, while simultaneously weighing it against the spirit hypothesis.
, Letters Volume 1: 1906-1950, 1973thesis
every single one of them could be explained by the actually existing knowledge in the unconscious (cryptomnesia, clairvoyance, etc.).
A reiteration, in the later correspondence, of Jung’s epistemically cautious use of cryptomnesia as a naturalistic ceiling against which the spirit hypothesis must be measured.
, Letters Volume 2, 1951-1961, 1975thesis
Cryptomnesia
The explicit listing of ‘Cryptomnesia’ as a standalone essay title within the Psychiatric Studies volume confirms its status as a discrete, formally recognised subject of Jungian investigation from the earliest period of his career.
, The Practice of Psychotherapy: Essays on the Psychology of the Transference and Other Subjects, 1954supporting
cryptomnesia, 55
The index entry for cryptomnesia in Collected Works Volume 1 situates it within the matrix of early Jungian concepts including the unconscious, dissociation, and psychic trauma, marking its foundational presence in his psychiatric thinking.
, Collected Works Volume 1: Psychiatric Studies, 1902supporting
the unconscious seems to contain other things besides personal acquisitions and belongings. My patient was quite unconscious of the derivation of ‘spirit’ from ‘wind,’ or of the parallelism
Without naming cryptomnesia directly, Jung’s observation that patients lack awareness of the sources of their unconscious material gestures toward the conceptual space cryptomnesia occupies in distinguishing personal acquisition from collective inheritance.
, Two Essays on Analytical Psychology, 1953aside