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