Anybody interested in jung?
Are you Jung at heart?
Generally interested. Read quite a bit of Jungian thinkers when involved many years with Jungian therapists/analysts. I have not read the book in the picture.
Don’t know enough to comment. Interested. But a bit frightened it increases my delusions. From the few things I read. I really barely know a thing.
His ideas are often tied to the occult.
I dont disagree with that, unfortunately i feel unable to fully respond without violating forum rules.
I am not arguing for, just curious.
I like Jung a lot. I read his biography which explains a lot of his philosophies. He was very much a Mystic, a seeker, and a deep thinker.
@Montezuma, agreed
Except I’m not sure how I feel about synchronicity
What about Collective unconscious do you believe such a thing exists? Sort of fantastical imo
Yes ma’am, I don’t know if every event has meaning or happens for a reason.
I file that in ‘above my paygrade.’
@FreeLunch I do believe in the collective unconscious but I think it can be restricted by things like geography, cultures, religions, and time.
Interesting stuff.
Hmm interesting
Something like synchronicity may exist. I have travelled well beyond coincidence.
But collective unconscious is a hard pill for me to swallow. I dont judge your perspective i just dont know how to share it.
I’m not sure because I don’t understand it fully.
But it sounds interesting to me and therefore I haven’t dismissed it until I give that topic my full attention one day.
I’ll get back to you on that when I do
As long as I remember
Why’s that hard? We clearly have local, national, and continental cultural identities that we can become consciously aware of (also racism, sadly). It seems only natural to me that some of that collective identity would rest in the unconscious?
Oh I just don’t like the idea of there being some sort of psychic interconnectedness I totally agree that culture probably is imbibed by the mind and held if something like an unconscious exists
I think there is a collective unconscious in that we all share fundamental sort of emotions. And thinking patterns.
I also believe that we are all somehow connected in a mysterious way but I could be wrong, I just feel it but I don’t know
Having said what I’ve just said,
I don’t really understand fully Jung’s meaning behind collective unconscious,
I think he just noticed similar stories being told in disconnected societies, and concluded those stories arose from something natural that we all share. He called the popular story characters archetypes.