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Blanche, that's interesting -
I find the whole concept quite fascinating. There certainly is a lot of denial out there in the big picture.
posted by
mneme
on October 28, 2006 at 8:01 PM
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Mneme, funny, Jung's shadow was on my mind a lot when I first started
blogging. I suppose it can be a lighter side, but that's not what I think most people mean, I think of the repressed dark side, the part that cannot be acknowledged by especially repressed people. Typically, like the minister or the fundamentalist, who cannot look inside at our own shadow self, it becomes a bigger, badder shadow the more it's repressed.
Looking at my own shadow, recognizng it and even making friends with it, is an ongoing life journey, but as always the first step is the acknowledgment that it exists.
On a collective level, war on the "Other" is a collective projection. I have thought long and hard on the nature of evil, and all I can say is it's just a feeling of pure horror, at the shadow od mankind, and the door we have left open to its world, and an inability to look at our own denial.
posted by
Blanche.
on October 28, 2006 at 4:27 PM
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Ok, fine mneme.
posted by
Bhaskar.ing
on October 27, 2006 at 7:55 AM
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bhaskar, thanks,
and it's not a problem - I have been working with this for quite a long time and I understand it well enough. I just didn't want to be misleading anyone, because I'm not an expert.
posted by
mneme
on October 27, 2006 at 7:50 AM
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mneme
I can make an effort to tell you a lot about it in a very simple way, if you so desire.
posted by
Bhaskar.ing
on October 27, 2006 at 7:14 AM
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bhaskar,
yes it is the collective unconscious, he's quite hard to read but worth the effort.
posted by
mneme
on October 27, 2006 at 7:01 AM
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mneme
Carl Gustave Jung was Sigmund Freud's student and they had a big difference regarding these shadows, or in Jung's discovering further of Collective Unconsciousness, which Freud never believed in. Is that the subject, mneme?
posted by
Bhaskar.ing
on October 27, 2006 at 6:52 AM
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Hi Marie-Claire
sorry you are not so well - plenty of rest might be just what you need. I just find Jung fascinating - not as stodgy as Freud. I like the idea of the creative energies - feel I could do with more of those! - hope you are better soon.
posted by
mneme
on October 27, 2006 at 6:15 AM
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Mneme ... did you check the closet?
Your inner child might be hiding in there...
Just kidding. Navel gazing is a good passtime. I am not sure what you mean, but hey it is getting late so I shall be excused for being obtuse. I will put my sleepy innerchild to bed. Just teasing, i am interested in psychology myself, i just wished there was a magic bullet we could swallow when life gets too rough, something that turns everything to pink. My kidneys were behaving themselves until tonight, they decided to take a break and annoy me again. so it is rest and more rest for me, staring at the screen on blogit no doubt. a very slight improvement maybe but too slow for me. Oh well. never mind. tell us more about your studies, sounds fascinating.
posted by
marieclaire66
on October 27, 2006 at 2:33 AM
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Since I don't claim to be an expert
I'll understand if I am corrected loudly by all the psychologists out there. Just try to be gentle - I'm only little.
posted by
mneme
on October 27, 2006 at 1:51 AM
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