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I go onto YouTube looking for specific information on Jung…two hours later, watching - how to make fancy canapés I know I’ll never make.

Happen to you too?
Gangstress · 41-45, F Best Comment
Yep I'm like ooo I'm gonna learn this yoga move
Next minute, kittens 😸
@Gangstress 😂relatable.
Gangstress · 41-45, F
@LilithoftheTrees haha thanks for BC X

Doometernal · 26-30, M
No

I get headache if I click random stuff on youtube.

I strictly only search for specific topics
@Doometernal thanks for the vids. By the way. I do all that he was talking about at different points in time.
soberSimplicity · 18-21, T
@Doometernal Most of the issues I find in Jung's psychology, philosophy, and perhaps more broadly, methodology, come perhaps most from the European mindset he would have been absorbed in at the time, though I certainly get the sense by the end of his life that he had started to become sick even of this.

[quote]Main one is using spirit or other metaphysical analysis to explain some concepts.[/quote]

This is actually not what makes the his psychology problematic, but instead actually quite brilliant. He is following a foundation that Freud placed down, that being, that the unconscious has to be interacted with on an unconscious basis, but taken to a point that Freud hadn't. He prefers spirit and metaphysics, not only or specifically because he personally does, but because the unconscious, which is the subject and object of his studies, seems to prefer those words and explanations as well. If you can see, the true brilliance is actually that he is, in principle, saying; "We must speak the unconscious' language if we wish for it to talk back."

[quote]Also the whole dream symbolism and interpretation is kind of garbage.[/quote]

A lot of people say this, though I am always curious as to why so few take to explaining why they think this. Jung predicted that people should have this reaction, since dreams appear so irrational and foggy to us. The Conscious mind, which is what we tend to base our sense of Self on, is not able to so easily penetrate the heart of dreams. And since so much of our sense of Self is found in the Conscious mind, we may almost take the dream to be some sort of incomprehensible madness or perhaps even insult, which one wouldn't wish to dwell on, which is why most do not, not even touching on all the traumatic elements which sometimes bubble on the surfaces of dreams.

Even here though, Jung's point remains very much the same, speak the language of the unconscious if you wish to understand it. One must, of course, go to dreams if you want to understand what dreams mean.

[quote]But yeah overall he paved the way for modern psychology[/quote]

I don't exactly know how he did this? I can point to *aspects* which were perhaps inspired by him, but modern psychology is not very Jungian. Freud, Lacan, Frankl, William James, and all alike are all also considered to have "paved the way", though I struggle to really point to how, again *aspects* perhaps, but modern psychology isn't much of a descendent of any of those schools. Though, also, modern psychology isn't much of a psychology...
@soberSimplicity very informative, thank you!
@LilithoftheTrees Yes its amazing what you can find.
@mondayschild2 I know right…I stared on Jung, went to a channel on the history of the Salem witch trials then canapés now it’s cheese and potato doughnuts and am now being directed to Korean mukbang videos.
@LilithoftheTrees I really like street cooking
CrazyMusicLover · 31-35
Absolutely.
@CrazyMusicLover inevitably I end up on something creepy(which I enjoy)
CrazyMusicLover · 31-35
@LilithoftheTrees I end up on solo travelers camping somewhere at the end of the world 😅 or a completely random thing like a dude pouring hot lava on various things..including a dead octopus. 🤦‍♀️
@CrazyMusicLover I feel you😂
Yeah, that happens with me all the time.

 
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