No prisons are more than the restriction is not that we consciously.
- Shakespeare, The Tempest
In 1913, a frustrated thirty-eight-year-old Swiss psychologist Carl Jung broke with Freud, who was an important mentor was for many years. It was a scary and traumatic experience for everybody. He left the popular authority of his time, he left a system of dream interpretation, a body of techniques, ideas and theories of analysis. And he went, whatbut as a father-son relationship has been with Freud, together with understandable betrayal, for Freud and Jung. Of course, break-up is also one of the most important transitions in their own process of individuation, Jung-a process of searching for his own life, his creative spirit. Shortly after disconnecting his life's work of Freudian psychology, and environment on his own, he had a dream like vision, while alone on a journey, a notion drama that seemed tosay, a disaster.
In October, while I was alone on a trip, I was suddenly seized by an overpowering vision: I saw a monstrous flood covering all the north and low-lying areas between the North Sea and the Alps. When it came up to Switzerland I saw that the mountains rose higher and higher to protect our country. I realized that was a terrible disaster in progress. I saw mighty yellow waves, the floating rubble of civilization and the drowned bodies of uncounted thousands.Then the whole sea turned to blood.
Two weeks passed, then the vision again, which emphasizes on the same terms, even livelier than before, and the blood more. An inner voice spoke. "Look at it this good, it's quite real, and it will be. You can not doubt." *
In the beginning, Jung was concerned that his visions were predicting the onset of psychosis. But on later reflection and world events, he believed, they warned him about the impending world war, which beganin August 1914. Immediately after the disturbing images that Jung described in a time of deep anxiety and self-reflection, trying to find a way through the landscape of his own dreams, his fantasies, and their relationship to his life, his work, and political development and social events throughout Europe. In his autobiography, he writes: "I lived in a constant state of tension, often I felt as if gigantic blocks of stone have been drumming down on me. A thunderstormfollowed another. "**
First, we need young visions in the context of his life at the time instead. Jung was in a turbulent transition, he was leaving the "normal world" the psychology of Freud and stroking his own, beginning in the forest, where there is no path. He stepped into the unknown and in his real life, and he has visions.
Next, we must imagine the pictures, and geography in his vision as the basis of his psyche,Landscape of his life at this time. And for well-known guys admonition to "let theories at the door," we will do our best to make the images speak for themselves. If you can imagine, the "enormous flood," They are a fundamental, powerful, unstoppable force of nature that has some profound cataclysmic event, a shock wave, a spiritual tsunami, upward and created over the country. The ideological walls of the convention can not restrain or contain these aroused the sea.From an alchemical perspective, the water dissolving the former boys life so that one is new, may create an authentic Jung.
Were for young, many of Freud's constructs of the unconscious and dreams, the structures included were the Freudian psychology collapse. Now, the tide begins to feel more like a creative young life and all that is what is contained therein is released from the limitations of Freudian psychology, free, open the sluice gates of his potential. Watersfor all the "flat land", which could mean all the common ground of popular psychology, where nothing stands, the young areas of life where he felt that he was too low, lay, shall remain on a level playing field with Freud was now in chaos.
Young lived in Switzerland, his home and where, in his dream, which grew in the mountains' higher and higher to protect our country. " The dream, the mountains around the house growing young country it could be said that by about thelow-lying countries, by himself with his own philosophy, that his "home", that is his life, his authenticity and his creative potential will be protected. The flood is following the low-lying countries of conformity and the tendency in all of us put our creative ideas, told us: "This idea will never work. What makes you think you can really make a difference?" We are afraid to accept Go to teachings of the world to go upstream against the tide of popularIdeas. So we have "Lay Low" to keep our authentic life in exile in the "flat" land. We are afraid, "exist", which also means to withdraw. "
How might we interpret the "floating rubble of civilization, and the drowned bodies of uncounted thousands?" Here we can see the dream, which was on the collapsed structures of Freudian psychology included were young, and preventing up to the break with Freud, Jung, from fully living his own life. The "drownedSweep away places "most of the ideas, the people of the world of Freud. The waters of" civilization "has everything that was built-upon-the flat land taken. Cadavers, a fairly common dream theme, would the death of old ideas that no longer in the development of the psychology of Jung-multiple death of ego-structures based on Freud's theories. Certainly, the tremendous impact this would explain troubled boys dream state of mindImmediately after his separation from Freud, and, finally, as his own.
This brings us to the blood: "Then turned the whole sea of blood." If we as a sea "turned into blood would imagine," we probably feel upset bloody and traumatic of an event that changed a mass death of an end that has its lifeblood discharged into the sea. We have also released the symbolism of blood from the death of "countless thousands" of old ideas and theories that no longer containedJung essential spirit. You could say that Jung lifeline of his nature - have been circulating through the body is that of Freud's thought, makes sense now, a necessary experience, a valuable component in the new psychological care, which now rise from the rubble of civilization, the internal chaos created by the house of Freud. As the sea I am also altered blood, the vital essence of life need to have in me (moves) the sea. And for guys, I am theSource of his life, the unconscious, the "zone of magnified power", the mystery, the special world. Young passion, his life's work, which was "in his blood has freed", perhaps say to him that his job was to open up the "sea," the depths of the collective unconscious and its relationship to the individual psyche.
This does not mean that Freud's psychology, not even a major contribution to our knowledge of the human psyche. But JungVision, which so eloquently portrays this archetypal drama, highlights the fundamental importance of one's own individuation to follow its own process of psychological differentiation, and activate it, then clearly his own way. And let us not forget the "voice" in his dream that the transformation strengthens and calms Jung: "Look at it this good, it's quite real, and it will be. You can not doubt." Precognitive glimpse Still a dream, but with a very different tendency: adramatic statement of the sweeping consequences for the young and his life as he Excalibur from the monolith of Freudian psychology. As he quite authentic in its young life was free Jungian psychology, has had an enormous influence on the world to create.
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Notes:
* Carl G. Jung, Memories, Dreams, Reflections, trans. Richard and Clara Winston (New York: Random House, 1973), p. 175
** Ibid., Pp 175-176.
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