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Freud versus Jung
I had a great conversation on New A long time day with two psychologists who had noticed the latest film “A Dangerous Method”, about the fraught relationship between Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung. I was fascinated to find out about the fundamental distinctions in philosophy in between Freud and Jung. It seemed that these variations stemmed largely from contrasting views of the collective unconscious.
After listening for a while, I suggested the following analogy: To Freud, the collective unconscious is like a giant energy line. When the connection is compromised between a individual’s conscious mind and the collective unconscious, then the conscious mind can’t draw sufficient power to function correctly. Therapy essentially repairs this connection to the energy grid.
To Jung, the collective unconscious is not like a energy line, but rather like the World wide web. Down there in the collective unconscious, we’re all sending every single other internet packets. Your conscious thoughts is your regional personal computer, and therapy improves your bandwidth to the Internet.
Yes, the psychologists replied, that’s pretty significantly it.
Reality versus fantasy
Pondering a lot more about the problems that arise from the questionable promotion of the film “Anonymous”, I am struck by the complexity of the social, cultural, ethical and psychological romantic relationship between reality and fantasy. Each society evolves a extremely elaborate code dictating when and in which everything should lie along this dialectic.
When we study a novel or watch a film, we happily and collectively indulge in a game of “what-if”. In a make-think world numerous guidelines of propriety are suspended. We understand that well-wrought fiction will give us an massive emotional payoff — a payoff we will spend good funds to encounter. In this kind of experiences there is generally no confusion about what is reality and what is fantasy. For illustration, when we watch “Star Wars”, we realize that we are not actually watching an complete planet full of people obtaining blown up.
In truth, our rules dictating that fantasy experiences do not mix with reality experiences are extremely strict. For example, for numerous folks in the U.S. it is perfectly ok to go into a restaurant and consume a serving of rabbit or cow. Nevertheless if a actual rabbit or cow were deliberately slaughtered to develop a scene in a fiction film, a lot of of the exact same men and women would likely boycott the film for ethical causes. On the other hand, it was generally deemed OK for Michael Moore to portray the real slaughter of rabbits in his film “Roger and Me” — simply because that was a documentary.
That’s just one example of several. I suspect we can adhere to the convoluted dance amongst our perceptions of “reality” and “fantasy” to illuminate all kinds of things just underneath the cultural surface.