Sublime

The communications of “spirits” are statements about the unconscious psyche, provided that they are really spontaneous and are not cooked up by the conscious mind.35

Jung called this process Individuation, which is really a great word for it. We move from a social and cultural identity to a truly individual sense of self. While in the first half of life we internalize aspects of our environment, in the second half we explore and express the truths which arise from within, individuating ourselves from group iden

We were “out of touch with our feelings”. God curse Carl Jung’s rotten corpse to hell for ever convincing popular culture that each sex had equal, but unexpressed, measures of feminine and masculine energies. Western culture has been so saturated with Jungian theory that we don’t recognize it as such. It’s become normalized to believe an idealized

But, as Carl Jung said, we make the mistake of going outside to find direction:

This is best demonstrated when he asks if ‘the ghost or the voice is identical with the dead person or is a psychic projection’ and if what we attribute as information coming from the dead might be content that already exists in the unconscious.10

que les archétypes jungiens, pour la plus grande part, sont des images ou formes de base héritées collectivement qui résident dans les dimensions magiques et mythiques de la conscience humaine, et qu'ils ne doivent en aucun cas être confondus avec les développements des domaines psychique et subtil.

The Ego, Jung tells us, is that part of the psyche that we think of as "I." Our conscious intelligence. Our everyday brain that thinks, plans and runs the show of our day-to-day life. The Self, as Jung defined it, is a greater entity, which includes the Ego but also incorporates the Personal and Collective Unconscious. Dreams and intuitio

Il a aussi mis en évidence, et c’est l’un de ses principaux apports à la psychologie moderne, que la psyché humaine a pour finalité de s’autoréaliser, qu’elle tend vers la complétude. Dès lors la connaissance de soi et le travail intérieur ne visent plus seulement à guérir d’une névrose, mais à se réaliser en tant qu’être humain.