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Jung considered individuation, the psychological process of integrating the opposites, including the conscious with the unconscious while still maintaining their relative autonomy, to be the central process of human development.[2] Wikipedia...
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You need at least three Gods or Archetypes or Internal Spirits to be working inside you in order to be Creative....These are; 1. Chaos; 2. Dionysus; and 3. Apollo. ...Add a fourth in there -- Aries (The God of War) and you could get Destruction and Death as opposed to Creativity and Life....
But first, you need a Big Bang -- an internal explosion of the personality into 'ego-pieces' and 'ego-spirits' -- all disconnected from each other and working in different directions -- metaphorically or literally speaking -- epigenetic mutations each with its own particular unique agenda, led by an Archetype or Internal God/Spirit that wants to have its own way and be 'ALL POWERFUL'....such as the conflict between Dionysus (the breaker of boundaries) and Apollo (the maker of boundaries)...Dionysus and Apollo in strife with each other -- with no peacemaker -- can be, in the title name of Nietzsche's first book, 'The Birth of Tragedy'.....But paradoxically, and insufficiently appreciated by Nietzsche -- Dionysus and Apollo in the container of 'Chaos' together can provide The Birth of Creativity as customary boundaries are disbanded, blown apart, and new boundary formations lead to new, integrative, and sometimes extraordinary Creations...
Chief among these internal spirits or Archetypes that can provide the 'Spirit' behind 'Reductionistic, Specialized, Ego-States'are:
Chaos, Zeus, Hera, Gaia, Uranus, Poseidon, Dionysus, Apollo, Narcissus, Aries, Hermes, Hades, and numerous more....,this is operating within a Mythological Container of Greek Gods...the list would grow bigger with any other culture's Gods, Heroes, Villains, added into the mix....We project Gods into The Sky and/or The Gods Come Down to Visit Us as Internal Spirits or Archetypes Within our Own Unique Personality...And Each God Wants Its Own Way....
But like the Greek Gods who created Soap Operas in The Sky, on The Earth, and under the Earth -- so too can these internalized or introjected spirits -- or Archetypes -- create psycho-dynamic, conflictual soap operas inside our personality...
Of which, it is the therapist's job to help the client restore peace, harmony, and unity in the personality again -- or at least some better semblance of it....There will always be some greater or lesser state of 'conflicted unity' in the personality but the 'internal team' has to get along well enough with each other to at least functionally work with each other in a semi-peaceful manner....
You could say that Dionysus is The God of Communal Unity and Apollo is The God of Individuation and Separation...which leads us into Rank's Theory of Creativity....Life being a process of continual re-birth and finding new and creative ways of maximizing both social unity and creative individuation....tragedy is when this process breaks down..
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1. The Nurturing Topdog/Superego (Rootedness, Groundedness, Encouragement, Support)
Mythological Counterparts
* Gai (Goddess of Mother Earth)
* Hera (Goddess of Family, Women, Marriage)
* Hestia (Goddess of the hearth, fireside, family, home)'
* Psyche (Goddess of Compassion)
2. The Hedonistic (Pleasure-Seeking) Topdog/Superego
Mythological Counterpart
* Dionysus (God of Wine, Festivals, Parties, Madness, Merriment, Group Celebration, Sensuality, Sexuality..)
3. The Narcissistic (Self-Absorbed) Topdog/Superego
Mythological Counterpart: Narcissus (Mesmerized By His Own Reflection in The Pond)
4. The Distancing Topdog/Superego
Mythological Counterpart: Hermes (God of Flight)
5. The Righteous-Critical Topdog/Superego: Zeus (Leader of The Gods With Usually The Most Power, The Alpha Dog)
6. The Central Ego: Apollo (God of Healing, Peacekeeping), Harmonia (God of Harmony)
7. The Persona: Helios (God of The Sun)
8. The Conscious Shadow (Conflated, Hidden Superego-Id-Ego): Selene (Goddess of The Moon)
9. The Feeling Ego (Eros): The Phenomenology of Spirit, Love, Passion, Romance...Ideally
10 The Submissive-Approval-Seeking Underdog (Omega) Identifies with Zeus;
11. The Phobic Underdog (Phobus: God of Phobias and Fear in General)
12. The Dionysian Underdog
13. The Narcissistic Underdog
13a) The Charites: Goddesses of charm, beauty, human creativity, and fertility
14. Aries/Pallas: God of War and Warfare (The Beta Dog: Second Most Powerful God, Usually at War with Zeus)
15. The Dream Weaver
16. The SIEV: Shadow-Superego-Id-Ego-Vault:
17. Mnemosyne: Goddess of Memory (Learning, Transferences)
18. Chaos, The Abyss, The Apeiron (Birthplace of splitting opposites, creativity, and order)
18a) Hades: God of The Underworld, God of Riches and/or Despair, Imploding and Exploding Ego, Splitting of The Ego...
19. The Womb Room (The Birthplace of Co-Dependence, Harmony, Unity, Wholeness, Oneness...Ideally)
20. The Genetic Self and Potential Self (Skills, talents, mythological skills, genes...)
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Summary
What I am trying to do is offer a 'shortened, cheaper version
of psychoanalytic transference analysis....the inventory could be done in 1, 2,
or 3 sessions....therapeutic goals could then be established...and style of
therapy could be established, not necessarily requiring a 'couch' and seemingly
endless sessions...
This is a more budget conscious, short term type of 'neo-psychoanalysis' combined with Primal Therapy, Adlerian Psychology, Gestalt Therapy, Transactional Analysis, Humanistic-Existentialism, and Cognitive-Behavior and/or Reality Therapy...
I would personally feel most comfortable working
with a hot seat and empty chair or empty chairs depending on how many different
transference figures we are dealing with and/or the nature of the nuclear
family constellation and/or the current family constellation...I could even see
adopting a Virginia Satir type family setting and model and/or a Moreno
Psychodrama type of theatre clinical setting. This is a more budget conscious, short term type of 'neo-psychoanalysis' combined with Primal Therapy, Adlerian Psychology, Gestalt Therapy, Transactional Analysis, Humanistic-Existentialism, and Cognitive-Behavior and/or Reality Therapy...
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It is only fitting -- this Sunday also being my birthday -- that you should perhaps experience a little 'synchronicity' here....All the die-hard empiricists and rational-empiricists can leave the room for 20 minutes or so...
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Synchronicity is the experience of two or more events that are apparently causally unrelated or unlikely to occur together by chance, yet are experienced as occurring together in a meaningful manner. The concept of synchronicity was first described in this terminology by Carl Gustav Jung, a Swiss psychologist, in the 1920s.[1]
The concept does not question, or compete with, the notion of causality. Instead, it maintains that just as events may be grouped by cause, they may also be grouped by meaning. A grouping of events by meaning need not have an explanation in terms of cause and effect.
In addition to Jung, Arthur Koestler wrote extensively on synchronicity in The Roots of Coincidence.
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Let us call this theory 'The Big Bang and Splitting of Internal Ego-Spirits-Archetypes-Gods' Theory....
Cosmology and mythology and philosophy are projections of internal psychology, and/or visa versa...psychology being the introjected (internalized) cosmology-mythology-philosophy....Mythology consists of soap opera, psycho-dramas, mainly in the sky....whereas psychology is the internalization of these soap opera, psycho-dramas.
The individual personality is formed the same way the universe and world were formed -- a 'big bang' and a 'splitting and uniting, splitting and uniting, of molecules and atoms, red blood cells and white blood cells, external and internal spirits, Gods and Archetypes....maybe even epigenetics...DNA and RNA, genetics and epigenetics...