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No Mortal mind can plumb the depth of nature"-nor even the depth of the unconscious." Carl Jung
"So far as our present experience goes, we can lay it down that the unconscious process stands in a compensatory relation to the conscious mind. I expressly use the word "compensatory" and not the word "contrary" because conscious an unconscious are not necessarily in opposition to one another, but complement one another to form totality, which is the self. According to this definition the self is a quantity that is supraordinate to the conscious ego. It embraces not only the conscious but also the unconscious psyche, and is therefore, so to speak, a personality which we also are. It is easy enough to think of ourselves as possessing part souls. Thus we can, for instance, see ourselves as a persona without too much difficulty. But it transcends our powers of imagination to form a clear picture of what we are as a self, for in this operation the part would have to comprehend the whole. There is little hope of our ever being able to reach even approximate consciousness of the self, since however much we may make conscious there will always exist an indeterminate and indeterminable amount of unconscious material which belongs to the totality of the self. Hence the self will always remain a supraordinate quantity."
"The unconscious processes that compensate the conscious ego contain all those elements that are necessary for the self regulation of the psyche as a whole. On the personal level, these are the not consciously recognized personal motives which appear in dreams, or the meaning of daily situations which we have overlooked, or conclusion we have failed to draw, or affects we have not permitted, or critisms we have spared ourselves. But the more we become conscious of ourselves through self knowledge, and act accordingly, the more the layers of the personal unconscious that is superimposed on the collective unconscious will be diminished. In this way there arises a consciousness which is no longer imprisoned in the petty, oversensitive, personal world of the ego, but participated freely in the wider world of objective interest. This widened consciousness is no longer that touchy, egotistical bundle of personal wishes, fears, hopes, and ambitions which always has to be compensated or corrected by unconscious counter tendencies; instead, it is a function of relationship to the world of objects, bringing the individual into absolute, binding, and indissoluble communion with the world at large. The complications arising at this stage are no longer egotistic wish conflicts, but difficulties that concern others as much as oneself. At this stage it is fundamentally a question of collective problems, which have activated the collective unconscious because they require collective rather than personal compensation. We can now see that the unconscious produces contents which are valid not only for the person concerned, but for others as well, in fact for great many people and possibly for all." Carl Jung
My work, all the work I have ever made...since I was born has been in the attempt to understand myself and the world around me.
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Omar Sangiovanni
Miami
Nationality :
Dominican
About me:
"Art is inextricably tied to mans survival-not his physical survival, but that which his physical survival depends: to the preservation and survival of his consciousness." Ayn Rand
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