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"Everybody acts out a myth, but very few people know what their myth is."

Carl Gustav Jung was a Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who founded analytical psychology.

Born: 26 July 1875, Kesswil, Switzerland

Died: 6 June 1961, Küsnacht, Switzerland

by yasminemei

I hold the power of creation and none shall ever stop me

There's no meme. This is just a chair.

by ryanresatka

“The methodology I advocate for is absurd, based in a naturalized ontology; a cynical and skeptical transvaluation of the culture that surrounds us. This essay is to address the psychic problems central to the Symbolic sphere; a form of psychic rewilding and becoming feral had to occur via the deconstructive transvaluation of Symbolic culture (which makes transcendental the material world) through authentic cynical and skeptical subjectivism. An atheist friend once said to me, “That’s just science and atheism.” No, it’s not! Most atheist and scientists are no more natural or objective than their spiritual counterparts within religious theology. Rather than ideological atheism, this is as lose as we can reach to pure skeptical subjectivism – the rewilded feral and animalistic perception of authentic unmediated truth. We need to deconstruct the ideological Symbolic apparatus of myths that form the theological structures of our reality, via our civilized oedipal consciousness, into a perception and culture that is post-civilized. I say postcivilized for one definite reason; it is not possible, in a holistic sense, to unlearn our languages and socialization – but it is possible to form a cultural collective consciousness, based in the individual, that is able to authentically transcend the bad faith of Symbolic culture and, in an almost circular motion, return to a feral perception that is far closer, if not totally connected, to the pre-Symbolic natural Real of wild-Being.”

— Julian Langer - Feral Consciousness

Genuine question from me, a trans guy.

Why are so many current, self-identified Jungians super conservative and transphobic?

They hide behind ideas of the anima and animus as some kind of "proof" that trans and genderqueer people don't exist but tbh it's easier to argue the opposite, that the animus and anima are proof that we're all a bit non-binary and for some of us an aspect coult be out of keeping with sex assigned at birth anyway.

I wonder if some of them believe that archetypes are something immutable and in some way "proof" that the "natural order" is sticking to gender and other stereotypes, but when you look at archetypes from a more cross-cultural lens you can show that archetypes are fluid and ever changing.

It just reminds me of Jung's description of the dreams of former Nazis as becoming more escapist and filled with increasingly archaic traditionalist symbolism as a way to dissociate from trauma and cognitive dissonance?

But yes, interested in what other peoples' thoughts are.

Being a gay surrounded by other gays is an underrated form of free therapy

Ah yes, omori