I need help with a quote; hopefully someone can tell me what Jung was talking about.
In Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious, in the section on ‘The Trickster’, towards the end of the section, at the beginning of paragraph 481 (I’m assuming the paragraph doesn’t matter what edition), the quote is “But nothing is ever lost, not even the blood pact with the devil.”
Actually, reading the previous paragraph and the paragraph the quote was in more carefully, he is talking about myths such as the [many] myth[s] of ‘the trickster’ being well preserved; and then talks about superstitions, and how we like to think they are obsolete and we are living them behind as we enter an enlightened society.
And then the beginning of the next paragraph makes sense: “But nothing is ever lost, not even the blood pact with the devil.” – to imply that no myth or superstition, especially ones considered to be psychological archetypes, are ever forgotten. I was wondering if Jung was making some sort of esoteric reference - though still, why does he reference it as ‘not even the blood with the devil’; is Jung trying to say anything more here or is he just giving another example of a myth/superstition that stays with human society in our collective psyche?
Though, the blood pact with the devil had, had fairly recent popularity (relative to the 19th century) with Goethe’s Faust; it was certainly a very prominent and popular myth. I don’t know why Jung mentioned it.