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Ramble On - April 2007Jung and ReligonApril 30th 2007 05:08
Jung claimed that he was interested in religion from a psychological perspective. Psychology "opens peoples' eyes to the real meaning of dogmas". For Jung religious experiences and ideas are found in the human psyche and not in the supernatural. He developed a particular interest in gnosticism and claimed that the Gnostics were great psychologists - the highest compliment possible.
 Jung: Theory of SymbolsApril 29th 2007 04:10
Jung believed that symbol creation was a key in understanding human nature. Symbol, as defined by Jung, is the best possible expression for something essentially unknown. He wanted to investigate the similarity of symbols that are located in different religious, mythological, and magical systems which occur in many cultures and time periods. To account for these similar symbols occurring across different cultures and time periods he suggested the existence of two layers of the unconscious psyche. The first of the two layers was the personal unconscious. It contains what the individual has acquired in his or her life, but has been forgotten or repressed.
The second layer is the collective unconscious which contains the memory traces common to all humankind. These experiences form archetypes. These are innate predispositions to experience and symbolize certain situations in a distinct way. There are many archetypes such as having parents, finding a mate, having children, and confronting death. Very complex archetypes are found in all mythological and religious systems. Near the end of his life Jung added that the deepest layers of the unconscious function independently of the laws of space, time and causality. This is what gives rise to paranormal phenomena. The introvert and the extrovert are the main components of personality according to Jung. The introvert is quiet, withdrawn and interested in ideas rather than people. While the extrovert is outgoing and socially oriented
Jung: Anima and animusApril 28th 2007 03:58
A part of our persona is the role of male or female we must play. For most people that role is determined by their physical gender. But Jung, like Freud and Adler and others, felt that we are all really bisexual in nature. When we begin our lives as fetuses, we have undifferentiated sex organs that only gradually, under the influence of hormones, become male or female. Likewise, when we begin our social lives as infants, we are neither male nor female in the social sense. Almost immediately -- as soon as those pink or blue booties go on -- we come under the influence of society, which gradually molds us into men and women.
In all societies, the expectations placed on men and women differ, usually based on our different roles in reproduction, but often involving many details that are purely traditional. In our society today, we still have many remnants of these traditional expectations. Women are still expected to be more nurturant and less aggressive; men are still expected to be strong and to ignore the emotional side of life. But Jung felt these expectations meant that we had developed only half of our potential
Jung: The PersonaApril 27th 2007 03:06
Persona
The persona represents your public image. The word is, obviously, related to the word person and personality, and comes from a Latin word for mask. So the persona is the mask you put on before you show yourself to the outside world. Although it begins as an archetype, by the time we are finished realizing it, it is the part of us most distant from the collective unconscious.
Jung: ArchetypesApril 26th 2007 21:59
The contents of the collective unconscious are called archetypes. Jung also called them dominants, imagos, mythological or primordial images, and a few other names, but archetypes seems to have won out over these. An archetype is an unlearned tendency to experience things in a certain way.
The archetype has no form of its own, but it acts as an "organizing principle" on the things we see or do. It works the way that instincts work in Freud's theory: At first, the baby just wants something to eat, without knowing what it wants. It has a rather indefinite yearning which, nevertheless, can be satisfied by some things and not by others. Later, with experience, the child begins to yearn for something more specific when it is hungry -- a bottle, a cookie, a broiled lobster, a slice of New York style pizza. The archetype is like a black hole in space: You only know its there by how it draws matter and light to itself
Jung : The PyscheApril 25th 2007 21:49
Jung's theory divides the psyche into three parts. The first is the ego,which Jung identifies with the conscious mind. Closely related is the personal unconscious, which includes anything which is not presently conscious, but can be. The personal unconscious is like most people's understanding of the unconscious in that it includes both memories that are easily brought to mind and those that have been suppressed for some reason. But it does not include the instincts that Freud would have it include.
But then Jung adds the part of the psyche that makes his theory stand out from all others: the collective unconscious. You could call it your "psychic inheritance." It is the reservoir of our experiences as a species, a kind of knowledge we are all born with. And yet we can never be directly conscious of it. It influences all of our experiences and behaviors, most especially the emotional ones, but we only know about it indirectly, by looking at those influences
JungApril 24th 2007 21:47
I'm a few pages away from finishing Deirdre Bair's biography of C.G. Jung More on Jung I was absolutely fascinated all the way through. Jung was one of those individuals who is somehow able to intuitively grasp what is perceived as truth.
As a younger colleague of Freud's, Carl Jung, was to make the exploration of this "inner space" his life's work. He went equipped with a background in Freudian theory, of course, and with an apparently inexhaustible knowledge of mythology, religion, and philosophy. Jung was especially knowledgeable in the symbolism of complex mystical traditions such as Gnosticism, Alchemy, Kabala, and similar traditions in Hinduism and Buddhism. If anyone could make sense of the unconscious and its habit of revealing itself only in symbolic form, it would be Carl Jung
Virtual Candidate for Virtual DemocracyApril 23rd 2007 20:42
The 2008 US Presidential election is in full swing now. I took this snazzy quiz Take quiz
and was not surprised that I am likely to vote for a theoretical ideal candidate as opposed to a "real" one....
Come to Jesus...Benny Hinn styleApril 22nd 2007 04:09
 My friend Bo sent me a link to this video. Unfortunately Mr. Hinn's attorneys have removed the video from YouTube. Fortunately for me I was able to find this version from Devilducky
Horrorifically DeliciousApril 21st 2007 03:14
Friends
My son's friend is a film student who has put together a three minute horror film that is a lot of fun. Link to the film Enjoy!
I ChooseApril 20th 2007 03:13
I choose and cherish to care, be fair, humble.
When a person cares She is unafraid
Philosophy on Life or EroticismApril 19th 2007 22:19
One of my favorite Things....WrittenApril 19th 2007 21:54
"I've always held the opinion that the beauty of the whole natural world pales in comparison to the universe that is a beautiful woman"
Freedom Versus AcceptanceApril 18th 2007 20:58
So I walk up on high and I step to the edge---
To see my world below and I laugh at myself as the years roll down But it is the world I know
What woke me up at 4:56April 17th 2007 06:40
What Woke me up at 2:36AMApril 16th 2007 15:50
I have a shadow that goes in and out with me. Art starts in the shadows before offering it's insight to the light of the mind. The task is to pull the fragments together.
What woke me up at 3:30AMApril 15th 2007 21:57
What woke me up at 3:30AMApril 14th 2007 22:42
The Uses of NotApril 13th 2007 04:14
Songs in my HeadApril 11th 2007 14:54
Middle Aged AngstApril 10th 2007 03:08
How strange it is to be forced into playing a secondary character in a multitude of scenes.... Without knowing what truth is, how could I dare say anything honest at all? Do we live through the ideas of The Others?
My mind's been asking where all of my words went, but my tongue won't answer
Can You Handle the Truth?April 8th 2007 02:06
Truth (Truth) (?), n.; pl. Truths (#).
[OE. treuthe, trouthe, treowpe, AS. tre\'a2w¿. See True; cf. Troth, Betroth.]
Happy Birthday RuthApril 7th 2007 03:08
Today is my grandmother's birthday.. Although she passed away when I was 23 years old , I feel her prescence every day. She would say this is due to our "family soul” which includes the living, the dead, and generations that preceded us. She believed that we are connected with family legacy whether we recognize it or not. We are all born into a current called our family it pulls and pushes us in certain ways.....
Deep Fried SouthApril 6th 2007 02:44
Today I was cataloging some of my family photos and was admiring some photos of fairs past and came across this picture
 It got me to thinking
Fortune CookieApril 5th 2007 02:08
I collect fortune cookie fortunes. I keep them on my sun visor in my car.
Here are some of my favorites... (I thought that I would keep my snarky comments to myself...this time)
Overheard by MiswanderlustApril 4th 2007 03:12
Child to mother....
"Sister is picking her nose...grossssss Mother to child
The Crazy Train Has Left the BuildingApril 3rd 2007 20:42
Have you ever had a bad day at the office
 Here is an example that should make you feel better
Despite My Demonic UrgesApril 2nd 2007 02:51
 My grandmother always said that each of us need to have a relationship of your own with God and stay "Prayed up and protected so we "don't keep the door open for Satan." She attended a weekly blues gospel soul food brunch with the church ladies rocking out on stage. I wanted to go EVERY WEEK. Seriously, so much fun
Ode to Aldous HuxleyApril 1st 2007 01:25
One of my favorite books of all time is Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. Today I was speaking to my dad who quotes Huxley often and I was reminded of his interminable insightfulness.
For those not familiar, Aldous Huxley (1894-1963), was an English novelist and critic, best known for his novels but also for travel books, histories, poems, plays, and essays on philosophy, arts, sociology, religion and morals. More info here
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