The Jung Ones

[DannyL]

Always been Jung skeptical. I could never get my head around his 4 personality types, just can't "feel into it" intuitively.

And then there's the slippage from collective unconscious into ideas like a "racial soul" which is obviously sus.

Was surprised how little he turned up on my Psychotherapy MA (I. e. never). I think they felt his ideas were too grand, cosmic and potentially ungrounding for beginning students.

 

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Have you been reading him again recently, @pattycakes_?

 

[Corpsey]

Jordan Peterson likes him which I think excuses me from reading anything about him

 

[Corpsey]

However I WOULD buy an audiobook of JP reading Jung if he broke down in tears every other paragraph

 

[pattycakes_]

Have you been reading him again recently, @pattycakes_?

No, but the av pic came up randomly online the other day and I felt it was a little lighter hearted than Hollom sinking to his watery grave which I had for a day or two. Same CGJ pic was on the front of a Penguin edition about the psychology of Jung I had back when I was a bit more of a reader. I just dig his expression in it and as I'm getting older, I start to dig older faces more and more, which helps to assuage the pain of looking at my decaying flesh every morning as I brush my teeth.

But I'm a Jung head through n through. His shit makes so much great sense of the world. Understanding things through symbols, dreams, synchronicity. Great inspo for music making for a start. The yin to Freud's yang. And it really is true what he says about once you're on your course, whatever that may be, the world becomes a bit more alive and you and the universe engage in somewhat of a dance. The amount of synchronicities I experience is fkn nuts. And it's not like you have to make them into something huge and massively meaningful, or you're the chosen one or any of that, it's just a nice little interactive cosmic decoration to add to your reality. Amazing fella. The Red Book and story around it is like whoa dude.

Obv he's the anti-dissensus also, which only makes me love him more.

 

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I've always thought he had a bit of a Professor Branestawm look about him.

 

[DLaurent]

Never properly read him. Went through a stage of watching loads of documentaries on him, lectures on YouTube and stuff, general reading around, and my favourite concepts are Anima/Animus, Synchronicities, and probably less so, the Collective Unconscious.

 

[DLaurent]

Always wanted to read more Laurens Van Der Post of Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence fame, as he was meant to be a 'Jungian'.

 

[luka]

Deleuze and Guqttaruli are big jungians apparently

 

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Deleuze and Guqttaruli are big jungians apparently

When the break between Freud and Jung is discussed, the modest
and practical point of disagreement that marked the beginning of their
differences is too often forgotten: Jung remarked that in the process of
transference the psychoanalyst frequently appeared in the guise of a
devil, a god, or a sorcerer, and that the roles he assumed in the patient's
eyes went far beyond any sort of parental images. They eventually came
to a total parting of the ways, yet Jung's initial reservation was a telling
one.
ANTI-OEDIPUS

Once Jung had a dream about bones and skulls. A
bone or a skull is never alone. Bones are a multiplicity. But Freud wants the
dream to signify the death of someone. "Jung was surprised and pointed
out that there were several skulls, not just one. Yet Freud still. . ."
A THOUSAND PLATEAUS

 

[pattycakes_]

Jung was def the Chad of the two

 

[pattycakes_]

Imagine an alternate reality where instead of Freud's nephew, Bernays was Jungs nephew and led us down a totally different path.

 

[Corpsey]

Deleuze and Guqttaruli are big jungians apparently

Pair of twats