The Seba library treats Reservoir Of Consciousness in 7 passages, across 3 authors (including Beebe, John, Freud, Sigmund, Campbell, Joseph).
Our typology, then, can be seen as a reservoir of consciousness that works within changing conditions of culture, capable of generating the cultural attitudes to do so.
Beebe’s central thesis identifies the typological system of eight functions as itself the reservoir of consciousness, a structured and culturally generative source of psychological attitudes and healing capacity.
, Energies and Patterns in Psychological Type: The Reservoir of Consciousness, 2017thesis
The self-same powers that seem so set on undermining our… efforts — so ostensibly devoted to death, dismemberment, and annihilation of consciousness — are the very reservoir from which new life, fuller integration, and true enlightenment derive.
Kalsched’s formulation, foregrounded by Beebe, argues paradoxically that the destructive forces of the unconscious constitute the very reservoir from which integration and enlightenment emerge.
, Energies and Patterns in Psychological Type: The Reservoir of Consciousness, 2017thesis
The self-same powers that seem so set on undermining our efforts … are the very reservoir from which new life, fuller integration, and true enlightenment derive.
In the Preface, Beebe invokes Kalsched’s formulation directly to establish the book’s foundational Jungian premise that the psyche contains the seeds of its own healing within its deepest, most dangerous energies.
, Energies and Patterns in Psychological Type: The Reservoir of Consciousness, 2017thesis
Beebe demonstrates the bond between the eight types of consciousness Jung named and the archetypal complexes that impart energy and purpose to our emotions, fantasies, and dreams.
The volume’s programmatic description establishes that the reservoir concept is grounded in the structural bond between typological consciousness-forms and the archetypal complexes that energise psychological life.
, Energies and Patterns in Psychological Type: The Reservoir of Consciousness, 2017supporting
The analogy of the ‘reservoir’ is from its very nature an ambiguous one: a reservoir can be regarded either as a water storage tank or as a source of water supply.
Freud’s editorial apparatus acknowledges the essential ambiguity of the reservoir metaphor in psychoanalytic metapsychology, noting it can describe either the id as passive container or as active source — an ambiguity that depth psychology inherits and transforms.
, The Ego and the Id, 1923supporting
Energies and Patterns in Psychological Type: The Reservoir of Consciousness
The title itself signals that the concept of a reservoir of consciousness is the organising frame for Beebe’s entire synthesis of typology, archetypal theory, and depth psychology.
, Energies and Patterns in Psychological Type: The Reservoir of Consciousness, 2017aside
Each one of us is potentially Mind at Large. But in so far as we are animals, our business is at all costs to survive. To make biological survival possible, Mind at Large has to be funneled through the reducing valve of the brain and nervous system.
Campbell’s Huxley-derived formulation of ‘Mind at Large’ offers a structural parallel to the reservoir concept: a vast unconscious totality of which ordinary waking consciousness receives only a filtered trickle.
, Myths to Live By, 1972aside