Carl Jung, anybody?

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Hi all. I'm just back from 3 days in hospital (unexpected emergency 4am). When I look at my life, the last few months look like a series of bad dreams but really happening in the waking world. Much distress. I keep trying to fix my life - it's like playing tennis against Roger Federer.

Me: Fix.
Response: Wham! Backatcha!

Years ago I was in Jungian Therapy so I got used to that way of thinking. But it can be anything.

All the best

Thank you!

Hope you are fully recovered or well on the way to a speedy and full recovery!

Sometimes life is a bumpy road. A few years ago for me it felt like one thing after another. I am now at peace. Maybe as time goes by things will smooth out for you. Best of luck. Hope you feel better soon.

I've not adequately studied Jung to call myself a Jungian, nonetheless patterns and mystical connections(in the Jungian sense) often leap out at me. My mind has been in fog for years, and now that I'm sort of wandering out of it I've decided to focus inwards(haha) on those subconscious impulses I've been suppressing; The stuff that makes me weird in all the ways I like. Stuff I suppressed to pass as normal while knowing I couldn't possibly be. It seems in the Jungian tradition that one's own intuitive guidance is meant to lead them to highly individual methods of action and expression that parallel the somewhat new age concept of a 'fully realized being'. That is an intriuging path to explore.

My favourite story about Jung is this -

A prominent banker came, in great secrecy, to see the disgraced (at the time) CG Jung about a recurring nightmare, in which the banker was being chased by an enormous snake. Jung offered to go, with many psychological safeguards, back into the nightmare with the banker, who would speak to the snake. They did so, I think, under hypnosis.

Today, it's a common thing to go back into your own dream and find out what's going on.

The banker stood with Jung inside the dream, at a great distance from the snake.

"What do you want?" the banker called.

The snake answered, "Don't you know me? I was your pet when you were seven years old. We played wonderful games and had adventures. Why won't you play with me?"

There it was. The successful workaholic banker thought that play would ruin him. When he saw a form of play (his former pet snake, which had also grown large), the banker saw a menace to his successful life, i.e. a form of death. He was running for his life, only he had got life and death confused in his deep mind.

Young has a way with words that only seems to come to those who pursue truth avidly. He refuses to disregard ideas without examination or consideration, and seems to possess self-honesty.

Yes, I like the very little I know of him.

"Grant me the authority of silence. Make sure I do not exist where I am not alive."
-Carl Jung prayer

I like Jungian theory.

If only Freud would have embraced Jung, instead of disavowing him!

How are you, Claradoon?

^ for KK and anybody who wants to know how I am. It's lovely of you to ask! I have just returned from the dentist who removed all my upper teeth. I sit here in my kitchen, bleeding and hoping Pharmacy will deliver painkillers today. Eating is out of the question, except maybe for sucking on chocolate bars.

My social workers are mad at me and one of them is coming in the morning to tell me off. I feel like an obedience poodle. I don't know what I've done wrong. The only thing they'll tell me is that I have a "pattern" (horrors!)

I hope your gum healing accelerates. Take care of you.