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Carl Jung said: “I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.” I want to stimulate some thinking about that and how it looks, so I came across this on November 22, where Stewart of Dark Matters a Lot posted this video:
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Carl Jung pointed out that “Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darkness of other people.” Beyond Meds posted a video and article, apparently by Monica Cassani, on Alan Watts speaking about Carl Jung on Accepting the Darkness of Self and Others:
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Jung also said:
- “The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.”
- “The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.”
- “Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.”
- “Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible.”
- “Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.”
If I said, “I just want to be there, at the outcome; making money or living in peaceful bliss.” What would you tell me?
Thanks for visiting,
Eric
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The Self in Jungian psychology is one of the Jungian archetypes, signifying the unification of consciousness and unconsciousness in a person, and representing the psyche as a whole. The Self, according to Jung, is realised as the product of individuation, which in his view is the process of integrating one’s personality.
For Jung, the Self is symbolised by the circle (especially when divided in four quadrants), the square, or the mandala.
What distinguishes Jungian psychology is the idea that there are two centers of the personality. The ego is the center of consciousness, whereas the Self is the center of the total personality, which includes consciousness, the unconscious, and the ego. The Self is both the whole and the center. While the ego is a self-contained little circle off the center contained within the whole, the Self can be understood as the greater circle.
Jung considered that from birth every individual has an original sense of wholeness – of the Self – but that with development a separate ego-consciousness crystallizes out of the original feeling of unity. This process of ego-differentiation provides the task of the first half of one’s life-course, though Jungians also saw psychic health as depending on a periodic return to the sense of Self, something facilitated by the use of myths, initiation ceremonies, and rites of passage.
Once ego-differentiation had been successfully achieved, and the individual securely anchored in the external world, Jung considered that a new task then arose for the second half of life – a return to, and conscious rediscovery of, the Self: individuation.
nicely presented post.. nice music too.. thanks. eve
This is one of my very favorite posts Eve; I’m happy that you enjoy it.
I love Carl Jung. He’s right up there with Albert Ellis and Erikson…for me.
Jung confirms what I have learned for myself. I’m adept at reading people-all people-especially people with maladaptive behavior. It’s easy for me to know who is more or less likely to reoffend, because I’ve been in that dark state of mind. I know the abusive behavior that corrupts the mind during one’s youth. There is so much more to it that I can’t begin to explain. It’s my personality type, INFJ, and the gift God gave me.
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This is wonderful! Thanks for stopping by my site. I’m glad you found me so I can follow you 🙂 Be Blessed!
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Powerful post
Its strange but its good to get it that we are entirely dependent upon grace.
Wow! This is so many powerful. It just made my morning. Thank you!
yes, the first video is moving and gets us into the right “mind” place to feel the truth of Jung — it is one of my finest works I think — to get it together — actually nothing of it is mine
Well, you put the videos and quotes together. So thank you! Really blessed me this morning.
🙂 Thank you. I’m glad that it was uplifting for you!
And thanks for sharing.