Carl Gustav Jung, the father of analytical psychology and by many defined as the father who gave impetus to modern psychology, believed that the image of baptismal water came from not only Christian influences, but pre-Christian, proto-Christian, pagan or even Egyptian. His studies on Gnosticism and the pagan nature of divine water of Egyptian origin have revealed a fundamental contribution to the psychology of the unconscious where this signifies wind, spirit or pneuma or “Stone”, Mercury in essence for the alchemists. In this essay the author re-proposes and recovers much of Jung’s classical vision of the ancient world and the reader himself will see images stored in the recesses of the soul take shape and substance. And it will be precisely the “buried images”, as Jung defined them, that will give voice to the unconscious in a narration in which the author re-proposes the original style of the writings of the Zurich psychologist, extending or in some way reproducing in a completely spontaneous and synchronistic way the peculiar traits of his usus scribendi.
