We thus arrive at a science which may be called paleopsychology. Its fossils are the thoughtforms throughout the ages, and such a science seeks to show fundamental likenesses behind the more superficial dissimilarities. The present work is a contribution to such a sci ence in that it shows the essential relationships of what is found in the unconscious of present day man kind to many forms of thinking of the middle ages. These same trends are present today in all of us though hidden behind a different set of structural terms, utilizing different mechanisms for energy ex pression.
