Crash Course Introduction to Analytical Psychology

Crash Course Introduction to Analytical Psychology

Are your kids acting crazy?  Are your family members seeing you in a new bizarre fashion? 

Everybody you know does not exist.  Your mind and soul impresses an imprint of a personality upon all monkey-humans you interact with.  They are just animals – high level monkeys.  But, your mind has a package of characters inside – like a fairy tale or a bed time short story.  Your mind takes these monkey-like animals that we call humans and impresses an image upon these people and you see them as the image in your mind impresses them with.  They are a substrate upon which your mind creates a character.    All the people you know exist only in your own mind.  This is what analytical psychologists call Projection.  The problem with the popular meaning is that only damaged people have projections of a mother-type on a non-mother person, or a father type on a person that is not their father.  This is wrong.  Everyone sees others as the characters created within their own minds.  Your lover?  Wife?  Husband?  They are characters in your head, but impressed upon a particular monkey-human in reality that your mind has associated with mental image with.  This is why when you were young, your father and mother were larger than life, but when you are middle-aged, they appear weak and frail, and completely different.  These images of Mother and Father are archetypes within your psyche created by your psyche and projected onto real life monkey-humans when you were young, but when you are old, the archetype is different since there is no longer any need for the old one – the old one fades into a wistful memory.

This also explains the strangeness of your child’s occasional behavior toward you.  They have characters in their heads of Father and Mother, and these characters are inside their heads, and not a representation of you.  You are only the monkey-human substrate upon which your child’s mind operates and associates these images with.  So, when they accuse you of wild and crazy things, just remember they are not see you – the substrate monkey-human – but a character story within their heads.

So, you think you are in a crowd of people you know, but, you are not.  You are alone with your mind’s camera making up all kinds of crap you think is real.

Freddy Martini

Strange Writing Phenomena

This probably goes without saying with hard core readers, but, in every text, there is the apparent meaning and the hidden meaning (Perhaps for every text, there are even multiple layers of meaning). I used to think that this hidden meaning only applied to the great books like the Holy Bible, Plato’s Republic, or Shakespeare. Everyone has come back to some writing after a few years, to reread it and find some new meaning that was not apparent on the first scan. The strange thing is that I have even found this phenomenon with my own writing; things I wrote ten years ago I read again, and find some hidden meaning that I as the author did not understand or know about. Perhaps this phenomenon is congruent with Jung’s suggestion that most of what goes on in our minds is unconscious. The little light that we experience as consciousness is a very small portion of what is going on. He even speculated that consciousness was a creation of the unconscious mind for particular purposes. So, we have (using Jung’s terms) our Shadow, our Anima or Animus, and our Self quietly sitting on our shoulders as we think and write, revealing themselves in multiple layers that are not even apparent to us. Even what is “out there” as we perceive it, may perhaps be one of these hidden aspects of our psyche, and even something called a numinous Archetype expressing itself as a Complex. As I wrote a few days ago, “Who knows?” The Shadow knows.