Becoming Whole: The Personality / Self Axis
Much has been made from Jung’s Analytical Psychology about an ego / self “axis,” originally proposed by Erich Neumann to characterize a crucial axis in childhood development. While that axis may be crucial for childhood development, another axis seems a more likely crucial axis in adulthood: the personality / Self axis. Most of the contemporary […]
Becoming Whole: Personality vs Ego Identity & Persona
“The decisive question for man is: Is he related to something infinite or not? That is the telling question of his life. Only if we know that the thing which truly matters is the infinite can we avoid fixing our interests upon futilities, and upon all kinds of goals which are not of real importance.”
C. G. Jung
Becoming Whole: Personality #1 and Personality #2
“The decisive question for man is: Is he related to something infinite or not? That is the telling question of his life. Only if we know that the thing which truly matters is the infinite can we avoid fixing our interests upon futilities, and upon all kinds of goals which are not of real importance.”
C. G. Jung
Becoming Whole: The Birth of Personality
“Personality is Tao.” C. G. Jung
Type Pathologies: Extraverted-feeling
The passage across is usually blocked by conscious resistance to any subjection of the ego to the realities of the unconscious and their determining power. (CW 6, par 631)
Type Pathologies: Introverted Thinking
“The passage across is usually blocked by conscious resistance to any subjection of the ego to the realities of the unconscious and their determining power.” (CW 6, par 631)
Introversion and the Ascent of Humankind
“Psychologically, we have a right on purely empirical grounds to treat the contents of the unconscious as just as real as the things of the outside world, even though these two realities are mutually contradictory and appear to be entirely different in their natures.” (CW 6, par 279)
The Sound Inside
“Life wants to create new forms, and therefore, when a dogma loses its vitality, it must perforce activate the archetype that has always helped man to express the mystery of the soul.” (CW 14, par 488)
The Bifurcated Collective Unconscious
Do the meaning and value of the personality really lie only in what is permanent? May it not be that change, becoming, and development represent actually higher values than mere “defiance” of change? —C. G. Jung (CW 6, par. 157)
House Guests
We get clues from the unconscious to further our “progress and ascent” toward a more complete and whole personality.