By Dan Gronwald, on April 20th, 2011 #CarlJung #quotes #dreams
As against Freud’s view that the dream is essentially a wish-fulfillment, I hold . . . that the dream is a spontaneous self-portrayal, in symbolic form, of the actual situation in the unconscious.
Carl Jung (CW 8: The Structure and Dynamics of the Psyche, “General Aspects of Dream Psychology,” 505)
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By Dan Gronwald, on April 18th, 2011 #JosephCampbell #quote #Mythology #dreams
All of the dogmatic talk about meanings and moral values and all that has nothing to do with any of that central mystery. It’s an is, and the way to experience one’s own isness in relation to the mystery of all mysteries it is through handling those elementary mythic images.
Basically, . . . → Read More: Mythological Imagery Propels You Into the Spiritual Realm
By Dan Gronwald, on March 31st, 2011 #JosephCampbell #quote #Freud
In general terms, Freud saw sex as the main determinant in psychology. Children’s relationships to the parents, as typically played out in the erotic relationship to the mother, the fear of the father, and then the transfer of the child’s sexual commitments to an individual of his own age and so on–Freud . . . → Read More: Freud: Sexual Dramas Central to Human Behavior
By Dan Gronwald, on March 31st, 2011 #JosephCampbell #quote #Freud
Primitive societies insist on the mythological attitude, as the Oriental societies. These cultures encourage the child to interpret the world in terms of the mythological patterns. Those years of adolescence are the critical years, and there the years that in traditional Oriental societies do not produce the little scientific mind, the mind . . . → Read More: Indigenous Cultures Interpret the World in Terms of the Mythological Patterns
By Dan Gronwald, on March 31st, 2011 Today, we have the idea of a two-story psyche, so to say. Down below lies the unconscious, while the conscious individual is above. This individual has a sort of flashlight in his hand: consciousness. Now, if I ask you what were you doing at 10:30 PM on such and such a day, you might not . . . → Read More: Freud’s definition of the unconscious and ego
By Dan Gronwald, on March 31st, 2011 Let me give a summary of Freud’s thoughts on this matter so that we will have the basis for discussion of the individual and society.
First, Freud based his model psychology on the idea that there is a will, a desire,an “I want” that is inherent in the psyche. The psyche is a little “I . . . → Read More: Society, Method, and Personal Development (Freud)
By Dan Gronwald, on March 26th, 2011 #JosephCampbell #quote #CarlJung #Freud
You’ve got to be able to separate your sense of yourself–your ego–from the self you show the rest of the world–your persona.
You find this first big tension within the psyche between the dark inner potential of the cell’s unconscious portions on the one hand and the persona system on the . . . → Read More: Campbell on Ego and Persona
By Dan Gronwald, on March 26th, 2011 #JosephCampbell #quote #CarlJung #Freud
The self is the whole context of potentials. The ego is your consciousness of yourself, what you think you are, what you think you’re capable of, and it’s blocked by all of these unconsciously retained memories of incapacity, prohibitions, and so forth.
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Thus self and ego are not . . . → Read More: Campbell on the Self and Ego
By Dan Gronwald, on March 26th, 2011 #JosephCampbell #quote #CarlJung
Jung calls the problem of this so-called midlife crisis integration: the integration of the two sides of the personality in terms of an individual culture experience. Jung’s whole approach to psychology is based on the idea of these interactions. and
Remember, Freud explored the idea of the wish and the prohibition, essentially . . . → Read More: Midlife Crisis = integration
By Dan Gronwald, on September 23rd, 2010 Is it then possible to have a science of myth?
Since Wagner’s and Max Muller’s day, C. G. Jung and Sigmund Freud have opened the way to the new prospect. With their recognition that myth and dream, ceremonial and neurosis, are homologous–their psychological readings of the phenomena of magic, sorcery, and theology, demonstrating the identity . . . → Read More: A science of the universals of myth thanks to Freud and Jung.
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