Carl Gustav Jung is a Swiss psychologist and one of the greatest thinkers the world has ever seen. He was born in 1875 and died at the age of 85 (1961). He was also a specialist in the area of Psychiatry, psychology, psychotherapy, and founder of analytical psychology.
Through this article, I want to share some of his thought about unconsciousness, how he saw the dream reality? How unconscious impacts the human mind and human civilizations? And also how dreams helped to create symbols and unique characters?
Unconscious is that we routinely see in a dream state of mind. A lot of people says dreams disturb the mind and continues sleeping. Yes, it is disturbing your sleep meanwhile it also helps to discover symbols, ideas and unusual form of answers or clues to reveal the mystery sometimes. Humans use spoken or written words to express and also make them meaningful in order to what they want to convey. Their language is full of symbols and often employs signs or images that are not explicitly descriptive. Some are strings of initials such as such as UN, UNICEF or UNESCO. Others are familiar trademarks the names patents medicine, budgets or insignia, although they are meaningless by themselves still we recognize meaning in common usage to show intentions such things are not symbols they are mere sign or object which are attached to meaning.
What we call symbols is a term, a name and even a picture that is familiar in daily life. Yet we possess some additional connotation in additional convention and obvious meaning. Every object you know you may not be known symbolically or symbolic implication. For example, if the American traveled to India when he goes back to his land he may say to his family and friends that Indians worship Animals but he doesn’t know the symbolic representation or implication behind it. So Carl Jung says thus words or images is symbolic when it implies something more than it’s obvious and immediate meaning. It has a wider “Unconscious” aspect which never precisely defined or fully explained. As human explore the symbols and led the idea that they cannot perfect description of “Divine” by his wheel of thoughts. All his intellectual identifications we may call it by name which may be based on creed but never give the factual evidence. Because it’s beyond human understanding and there is the talk of factual evidence. Humans are having an only limited room of senses. When our senses are reacting to real phenomena, signs, and sounds they somehow translated into realms of reality in the mind and they become a psyche event. Every experience contains an indefinite number of unknown factors. When we concentrate on every factor in respect of unknown factor. Because of which we cannot know the Ultimate nature of matter itself.
There are so many unspoken thoughts or words. It is below the threshold of consciousness. When thoughts manifest without our conscious knowledge they appear in the form of dreams. They reveal thoughts not rationally but instead use symbolic images. Here Carl Jung studied his spectacle lenses and discovered that one of the curses of modern civilized man is that he suffers from a divided personality. It is by no means pathological symptom. The two “subject” or two personalities in the same individual it is common undeniable human psyche. What we call psyche is by no means identical with our consciousness and its contents.
The Anthropologist has noted, one of the most mental disarrangement that occurs, primitive peoples, is what they call “loss of soul” which means as the name indicates a noticeable description of consciousness. The “loss of a soul” is not so irrelevant to the modern civilized man we too can become disassociated and lose our identity. We are possessed by mood and something with unusual behaviors without our knowledge. People may ask you “What devil has got into you?” we may say that everything is under control or I am a self-controlled person. But still, your friends may tell you things which you don’t know by yourself. Even human consciousness is more evolved still it has not yet achieved the reasonable degree of continues awareness. Because as I mentioned earlier our senses are very limited we can only concentrate on one thing at a time.
Almost everyone knows that there is an enormous variety of images by which the sexual act can be symbolized. Each of the images is associated with the idea of sexual intercourse and specific complexes that any individual may have about his own sexual attitudes. Carl Jung illustrated by his point that one could just as well unearth such complexes by daydreaming on a set of indecipherable Russian letters. He was led to the association that dream can contain some message other then the sexual allegory and that it does so far definite reasons. For instance, the man may dream of inserting the key in a lock, of wielding the heavy static or breaking down the door with a battering ram. Each of these is regarded as sexual allegory. But the fact is that he is unconsciously for it on purpose has chosen the things like, the key, the stick, or the buttering ram. It is also significant that the real task for the dreamer is to understand why the key has been preferred to the stick or the stick to the ram. And sometimes it also helps to dream that it is not a sexual act at all but it is some other or different psychological act or point. From this Carl Jung concluded only material that clearly and visibly part of the dream should be used in interpretation.
I would like a reader to go through the 17th century Alchemical Manuscripts because it will show you the “anima” is the female element in the male unconscious. This inner duality is often symbolized by a Hermophrodic figure. Carl Jung said “Every man carrier’s women within himself.” It is this female element in every male that I have called “anima” in other words the individual personality may seems to be quite normal or he may well be concealing other or even from himself the deplorable condition of “the women within”.
Thank you for reading this article. On my next article - Carl Jung thought of unconsciousness (part-2) where I’ll show you how dream functions in the human mind? How it is to impact to individuals? And many more we will find out.
HAVE A NICE DREAM! 
No comments:
Post a Comment