C.G. Jung's 1922 essay distinguishing between 'psychological' art (which works through familiar human experience) and 'visionary' art (which expresses contents from the collective unconscious beyond the personal) — establishing the Jungian framework for understanding art as a channel for archetypal material.
Introduces the visionary/psychological distinction in art — visionary art is not created by the artist's personal psychology but erupts through them from the collective unconscious, making the artist a vehicle for transpersonal forces — laying the foundation for all subsequent Jungian aesthetics.
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