Carl Jung was born on July 26, 1875. in Kesswil, Switzerland. Jung believed in the "complex or emotionally charged associations. He collaborated with Sigmund Freud, but disagreed with him about the sexual basis of neuroses. He founded analytic psychology, advancing the idea of introvert and extrovert personalities and the power of the unconscious. He wrote several books before his death in 1961.
In one chapter of his book title
Memories, Dreams and Reflection, he told that at the beginning of 1920 one friend invites him to a trip to Tunis, (North Africa). During this scene, he learned that their people live from their affects, are moved and their being in emotions.Their consciousness takes cares of their orientation in space and transmits impressions from outside, and it is also stirred by inner impulses and affects. In this short section I think that he try to call up the essence of his theory of psychological types. Jung discovered that in our unconscious there are collective cultural influence from varying civilizations going back to the beginning of human experience in ancient cultures. That's why, I think that we should all better know our culture. Knowing our history and culture helps us building our identity. Our identity as Puerto Ricans are still living the message subconsciously taught long ago, "America is great, Puerto Rico is small, the United States is rich, Puerto Rico is poor, America is strong, Puerto Rico is weak." This thinking makes me feel sad about us, because our culture is rich in all aspects, That's why I think like Jung, we need to know our collective cultural influence.
I also agree with you that our conscious is stirred by inner impulses. But I also believe that our subconscious also affects us greatly in our day to day lives without us realizing it.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you Jim! We need to be able to know our culture and defend it.
ReplyDeleteI see what you mean, Jim. What I took out of your writing is that if we don't know what our predecessors did in this island, how can we expect to move forward with an identity that we simply do not recognize. Thanks you for this.
ReplyDeleteWhat you took from the reading are the things we hide deep within the back of our minds are products of the consciousness and how we apply or suppress those feelings, I think that's a very well thought out analysis.
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