Posted on 06/09/2022 8:38:44 AM PDT by DallasBiff
Well I would like to think I’m in the 4th stage ;-)
In the fourth stage, as Sophia (called Wisdom in the Bible), a man’s anima functions as a guide to the inner life, mediating to consciousness the contents of the unconscious. She cooperates in the search for meaning and is the creative muse in an artist’s life.
It never ceases to amaze me how idiotic folks are that praise him too. Even so called conservatives.
The dude was a servant of the devil.
RIP.
“It’s long been said the most mentally screwed up people go into the field to try to figure why they’re screwed up. They end up screwing up others as a result.”
Yup, most of them appear to have unresolved personal issues of their own. The only thing Freud ever said that made sense to me was when he said that instead of seeking a psychiatrist, people might be better off seeking the company of a truly well adjusted person and emulate their behavior.
Freud did teach us something about repression and ambivalence and the ways in which people sabotage themselves. Also a lot about how childhood experiences and relationships influence later life.
But he became too convinced of his own answers and his own genius and encouraged a cult and an orthodoxy. Sophie Freud was coming at him from a feminist perspective, strongly influenced by the problems the women in the family had because of Poppa Sigmund.
She rejected her grandfather’s ideas.
What is the Jung theory?
Her last words...
“Ooooo... It ISN’T a cigar!”
Adolph Hitler, Josef Stalin, and Mao Tse Tung were also among the most influential persons of the XX Century.
I’m not a scholar and not much more than a ‘rube’ myself. I’ve read Jung more through more modern interpretations than his work directly, which can be very dense; and I know little of Freud. What seemed to be a reduction to mere sexual drive on the part of the latter seemed perverse to me, lacking awareness that sexuality is an aspect of a general force much greater. I was turned off to him early on.
One thing I personally prefer is that Jung was not an atheist, as Freud was. He recognized the importance and role of religion and the meanings religion conveys in the human psyche. He was not a materialist in the sense of believing that consciousness arose from and is confined to matter. And he recognized that the thrust of world history and events only changes as men individually change themselves. He gave great warnings about ‘mass-mindedness’ and collectivism in thought.
I’ve also appreciated his recognition that men contain feminine aspects that need to be developed to make them whole, and vice versa with the female (Anima and Animus, individuation). A lot of his inheritors have done good work with this in terms of helping men, particularly.
A couple of old interviews with Jung, second one is quite long (he was a very engaging and thoughtful person to listen to):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AMu-G51yTY
https://www.bitchute.com/video/zGqwOB7pSx8h/
This is long, but a good biography containing memories of Jung through people who knew and worked with him:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ed3vPb9bmcw
James Hollis is a Jungian psychologist who has talked on the isolation and estrangement (’Wounding’) of men, which I think Jordan Peterson has also addressed (this is a voice only podcast):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w679hb5SFjQ
Differences between Freud and Jung:
http://www.differencebetween.net/science/psychology/differences-between-jung-and-freud/
I guess this is a lot more than you wanted...
She did reject most of her grandfather’s ideas. I had a class with her during college back in the day. Interesting women.
LOL.
Edward Bernays?
did he invent bearnaise sauce?
Thanks for sharing that.
Even om my worse days, I say to myself, "God will get me through this."
Dude was messed up, and he messed up generations.
That is a good way to think. It’s also good to be constantly grateful and thank God for all of the goodness in your life, and in life in general.
(I think gratitude is one of the absolute most powerful of human emotions.)
“did he invent bearnaise sauce?”
Yes, yes he did. A little known culinary fact.
Carl Jung's theory is the collective unconscious. He believed that human beings are connected to each other and their ancestors through a shared set of experiences. We use this collective consciousness to give meaning to the world.
Jung proposed and developed the concepts of the extraverted and the introverted personality, archetypes, and the collective unconscious. His work has been influential in psychiatry and in the study of religion, literature, and related fields.
What people go through is a process of growing up and becoming an individual, that repeats patterns that are found in myths and legends. You are on a quest, as ancient heroes were. At least, that's as I understand it.
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