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Saturday
14Nov2009

A CASE OF INDIE-VIDUATION

Perhaps as a result of listening to the outstanding Jungian Podcast, generously and skillfully produced by Jungian Analyst John Betts, I have finally understood several confusing aspects of my psychological configuration and related dynamics.

Based on what I'm learning, it appears that I have been INDIVIDUATING, a term describing a psychological process we all would do well to engage in, according to Dr. Jung, since we cannot be at peace, with ourselves and/or others, until we do.

I had suspected that my psyche was up to something, once again, as it is of a restless kind, one that can even turn mischievious, should I attempt to put a wrench in its wheels ( and yes, they are all there, thank you).

But this? This was an unexpected turn of events, even for an inveterate INFP such as myself (and if you don't know your Jungian typology .... what are you waiting for?).

I know, I know. I don't buy into the idea of labeling people either. However, when I read the description of my type I really liked it, since it said many great things about me, which are all true, so I decided there must be something to this test after all.

Besides, I needed a bit of lightheartedness, given how strenuous the Individuation business can be.

I hope these links will keep you entertained until I get another break (my mind tends to operate in turbo-gear when occupied with self-discovery expeditions, especially when it reaches a previously uncharted vista of my unconscious landscape).

For now, have fun with your archetypes, complexes and unconscious and remember, if things gets too intense at any point, hit your transcendent function and all will be well.

(Just kidding! Did I need to say that?)

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    Analysis encompasses a wide range of psychotherapeutic experiences, the core of which is the gradual conscious awareness of the unconscious in particular, and the psyche in general. In analysis, as Jung says, we confront the unconscious.
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    Since, in the light of these facts, the attitude-type regarded as a general phenomenon having an apparent random distribution, can be no affair of conscious judgment or intention, its existence must be due to some unconscious instinctive cause. The contrast of types, therefore, as a, universal psychological. phenomenon, must in some way or other have its biological precursor.
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