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From the self-reflection on "me" to the collective thinking on "us", the culture-seeking and the life-questioning become one. During one decade or so, from Yu Qiuyu Enthusiasm to Yu Qiuyu Phenomenon, Yu was extolled and finally he refused criticisms. In that period, Yu thought he got close to himself while getting close to history. Yu's historical survey corresponds to Jung's psychological concepts in terms of the question why we can not develop ourselves properly. It is believed that the internal development (i.e. what Jung calls the relativity of individual culture and collective culture) is less emphasized in the contemporary culture. This is the reason why most of us are still extremely primitive in psyche. Jung attempts to combine Mandala, Yoga, Chakra, Taoist alchemy, and Western alchemy to achieve the oneness in psyche as well as among all things on earth. With the idea that Western alchemists extract spirit and mana from lapis, he manifests the external world represented by id and unifies all the existing opposites. During the extraction, the alchemist himself also becomes transformed in psyche. In his book Art Creation Engineering (藝術創造工程), Yu explains how to expand Jung's idea stated above, with the purpose of changing the mental structure of beauty appreciation and then refreshing the race's sense organs. Emphasizing the role of art on the moulding of human spirit is related to the modification of sense organs. That is, the transformation and cultivation of body have great impacts on the moulding of literary styles.
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