"In one chapter, Jung delineated the phenomenon known as "cryptomnesia," as understood in the psychiatric literature of his day and through clinical practice with patients. Jung describes cryptomnesia as a "psychic process" in which an "automatic creative force causes lost memories to reappear in sizable fragments and with photographic fidelity" (Jung, 1970). Jung categorizes this force as arising from the unconscious and reports that consciousness is "impotent" in the face of the "tremendous automatism driving up from the unconscious" (Jung, 1970)."
"Accessing the Unconscious Mind Jung had a fascination for this and other forces that, he and Freud believed, were stored in the unconscious parts of ourselves and acted as controlling forces over our habitual states. Jung's investigation of this psychic phenomenon connects with the aims of psychoanalysis as a therapeutic process, which deals with the emotional forces at play in accessing unconscious memories."
Cryptomnesia is described as a psychic process in which an automatic creative force causes lost memories to reappear in sizable fragments with photographic fidelity. The force arises from the unconscious, and conscious awareness is portrayed as impotent against the tremendous automatism that brings these memories to the surface. The power and unpredictability of the force can override habitual conscious experience. Interest in these unconscious forces links directly to psychoanalytic aims. Psychoanalysis seeks to retrieve forgotten instances charged with negative emotional energy and reintroduce them to conscious awareness to facilitate healing of psychological disturbances stemming from traumatic experiences.
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