There is a protective, wise aspect in our unconscious. It is not only our superior consciousness that is different from animals. Under the subcontract of evolution, our subconscious seems to be equally equipped to serve our intelligent consciousness properly. When this equipment is combined with loyalty and devotion, it almost turns into a function of wisdom. If the conscious mind is like an intelligent and visionary prince in his teenage years, the unconscious mind is like an experienced grand vizier, except for his shadow aspect. Of course, our unconscious does not only consist of this aspect. In other words, we have our animal shadow, that is, our dark side, in our unconscious as well as our animal divine wise side.
The collective unconscious is the most effective layer in our life
The most important reason for attributing wisdom to the unconscious. It was Jung's discovery of the deep protective program that directs the collective unconscious and the personal unconscious. In this layer, there are modeling abstract patterns acquired through the experiences of the evolutionary process, which Jung calls archetypes. Our collective unconscious works under the subcontract of our personal unconscious. Even if we do not realize it, this layer is the instigator of all our behaviors. These patterns, which Jung calls archetypes, are passed on to new generations through genetic transmission and prevent the achievements of the species from going backwards. Although they do not seem to be as prominent as those around us in our daily lives and in our personal memories, the main motivating influences come from our collective unconscious and the archetypes that are their building blocks. If archetypes are like the sun, fire and air, our personal unconscious is effective like a wood-coal stove, and the spirit of the age is effective like a heater or air conditioner.
Conscious mind is a new layer in evolution.
However, layers similar to today's unconscious have governed us for hundreds of thousands of years. These layers still largely govern today's animals. In other words, our spiritual management is at work even when we have no conscious awareness. As can be understood, consciousness is used here not in the neurological sense of not being in a coma, but in the sense of being aware of one's thoughts. This is the interpretation of the Homo sapiens stage, according to Descart, by adding another sapiens, that is, the human being who thinks what he thinks.
The non-rational functions of the soul are intuition, emotions and sensations. Among these functions, intuition is the most ancient value and is as effective as a resultant decision emerging from the depths of the unconscious. Unfortunately, in our age, the path of intuition seems to have been blocked and exiled from our spiritual council. The human intelligence, which is the most developed in the subcontracting of evolution, is like an overly pampered, intelligent, visionary but immature crown prince who was ascended to the throne before he matured in our age. However, other functions, which are the powers of the unconscious, should also be included in our spiritual divan and the immature and despotic rule of the mind should be saved.
Our soul consists of opposing pairs, just like the world of duality.
Mental health means being able to adapt to the outside world and within ourselves. According to Jung, both the universe and our inner universe (our soul), which runs parallel to it, work on the principle of opposites. Day and night, birth and death, hot and cold, good and bad, love and hate are some of these. Accordingly, mental health actually means maintaining a balance between opposites. For example, as much as a divine sage lives in our unconscious, there is also a dark and energetic aspect resembling a wild animal. This direction is called the shadow direction. It is a pattern similar to the id, which Freud calls the id.
Failure to make peace with our shadow side creates danger.
The shadow collects our disliked and generally dark sides and keeps us almost constantly. It is an important archetypal pattern named so by Jung because it follows the Even though our unconscious is far from the ordinary images of daily life, it is our essence. The shadow includes the aspects of ourselves that we want to hide even from ourselves. Even though it is unpleasant, just as we have to encounter our poop, we also have to meet and constantly communicate with our shadow side. Otherwise, there will be dangerous complications in our soul such as constipation and even intestinal knots. In a collective sense, it leads to contagious dangers at the social level, such as terrorism and war. Jung said that the unconscious is not scary, but not making peace can lead to scary consequences.
Disorders indicate that our spiritual balance is disrupted, but...
Our soul seeks progress and balance. But balance is even more important than progress, because it seems that many people are struggling for the sake of balance. e progress is sacrificed. Freud calls it stuck in this situation, Jung calls it failure to individuate, and Gestalt school calls it failure to realize oneself. Freud defined 5 life stages. These were oral, anal, phallic, latent and genital stages. These stages, which he defined as psychosexual development stages in accordance with his theory, ended in adolescence because sexual development ended there. However, according to Jung, the development of the soul did not depend only on sexual development, and humans continued to develop after adolescence. In fact, he felt the need to take it to another dimension if he could get away from the effort of establishing his life after middle age. This dimension was the dimension of meaning. In fact, the meaning that is important in every life stage was trying to reach the humility of wisdom after middle age. Erik Erikson, unlike Freud, added the three post-adolescent stages (young adulthood, middle age and old age), which Jung, who always had the difficulty of expressing his views in a systematic way, had proposed much earlier but was ignored at that time, partly because of his conflict with Freud. He would approach Jung's views by calling these psychosocial stages. Erikson also expressed the duties of each universe.
This balance is not like balancing on a stable board. This balance is like being able to stand on a surfboard and navigate a river with at least eight variable currents. Mental disorders indicate that this balance is disrupted. Jung argues that just as dreams, which bring information from our unconscious, have a restorative aspect to the conscious-unconscious balance, mental disorders also have a function of repairing our soul and eliminating deficits. More importantly, mental disorders that seem like destruction can actually be the foundation of a new structure. Let alone mental disorders, even serious mental illnesses are actually a weakness of strength or empowerment in at least one aspect. Let's not forget that Mercedes breaks down more on bad roads and the weakest time in nature is usually the time of transformation for the better. For example, the weakest period of a snake is infancy, molting or pregnancy.
Synchronicity
Synchronism is the meaningful combination of situations that do not have a causal connection between them. is the term Jung coined to describe their arrival. Randomness is only mathematically valid. A. In fact, everything in the universe seems to be related from another dimension, even though there is no logical relationship between them. Even evolution can be seen as a chain of such meaningful coincidences. In this respect, nature requires trust and respect. That is why, in the Jungian perspective, the therapist refrains from actively intervening in the person's external factors, and after doing his best to return the person's internal factors to factory settings, that is, regulating the internal factors, and doing his best in each session to make them work well, he waits with confidence for his patient's change. He advises him to wait for internal and external factors to mature. This is compatible with the high acceptances of our culture, especially Sufi thought. For this reason, the Jungian therapist does not direct external factors as much as other therapies. Acts like an obstetrician monitoring pregnancy. As in the Murfy rule, she feels that everything will come to pass. After doing his best to prevent disruptions, he trusts in the power of nature to organize and direct from an unknown dimension, which has been proven to lead to meaningful results for hundreds of thousands of years.
Human beings are largely governed by complexes under the influence of archetypes
p>Jung is the person who developed the concept of complex. According to him, the complexes in our unconscious have a dominating effect. These complexes may be of a nature that can be attributed to the disease, such as the extreme inferiority complex, or to the normal, such as the mother and oedipus complex. Although Jung was the one who developed the concept of complex through association testing at the beginning of his career, he did not directly study complexes in his classical therapies, but rather focused on reaching the unconscious through dream analysis. Today's contemporary cognitive and schema therapies work more directly with these complexes, which they call schema.
Psychiatric theories are not very different from each other.
The differences are seen more according to personality type. This is due to the angles changing considerably. Everyone, like the blind man in Mevlana's Mesnevi, thinks that wherever he touches the elephant, it is the whole elephant. For example, according to Jung, an introvert and an extrovert touch the elephant from different angles. Jung is against dogmatic approaches and according to him, there is something to benefit from in every perspective and approach. There are things.
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