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Today, we are going to talk about the life of C. G. Jung, and his theory, his psychological system.
There is an official story about Jung... and there is a story that is said not to be official.
Everybody knows the official one, which is not true. Because if there is a story that is Official, it means there is another one.
We are about to tell the real story about who was the Dr. Carl Gustav Jung.
Some of his biography, some of his psychological system.
And in other videos, we will explain each point of what does his teching means.
Firstly, Jung was born in 1875 and died in 1961...
... and the influences he had, wich are not the officially known, are the following...
... and I will be telling the truth about it.
The location of Jung in time, space and ideology.
Is said that Jung was Freud´s disciple. It was not really like that...
... Jung was a psychiatrist when Freud published his theory.
He was a swiss psychiatrist, who worked in Burghölzli at a psychiatry clinic...
... and he contacted Freud to collaborate with him, with a very different idea of psychology.
This happened approximately from 1906 to 1912.
Because Jung was not agree with the materialist and reductionist view of psychology...
... of Freud´s psychology, he abandoned that group. It was called "The Group of Vienna"
... and returned to meet his teachers in Switzerland, wich were the followings who influenced Jung´s theory.
First, Alfred Adler, an austrian psychologist that developed the Individual Psychology, ...
... the neurotic character, the knowledge of man and sense of living...
... who was also dissident with Freud, moving away from the system, and continued with his own psychology method.
The master of Jung, actually... when he receives as a doctor and works in the Burghölzli clinic, was Eugen Bleuler...
... who was born in 1857 and died in 1939, created the term "Schizophrenia"...
... for different types of mental disorders.
Because at that time, it was just beginning this specialty that was psychiatry... beginnings of the 20th century.
In that clinic in particular, they treated schizophrenic people.
Another of the theachers of the clinic was Théodore Flournoy, from 1854 to 1920 was his life... swiss...
... who influenced Jung much more, and wrote with him a very little known book called "From India to the Planet Mars"...
... which has nothing to do with astronautics, but is just an allegory.
And created the technical concept of "Creative Imagination", which Jung conitinued later.
The case of Mss. Frank Miller, publishing with Jung the book "Symbols of Transformation of the Libido"...
... in 1912,  which is Jung's basic book.
Then there is another stage of influence that Jung has, ...
... which is the he Idealistic or Gnostic School of Phenomenology, in Germany...
With several characters, and I'll go naming them to see who knows them. And who knows them, they can look for them.
... one of them was Franz von Brentano, austrian philosopher...
... who studied a lot the theories of Meister Eckhart, a great philosopher of the beginnings of the Middle Ages (1.200 AC).
... and wrote about the Natural Intentionality of the Psyche... the Philosophy of Values.
He affirms that the archetypal of psychic acts prove the spirituality of the soul.
This was a great influence for Jung, on the espiritual orientation of his own psychology.
Another character was Edmund Husserl, creator of the Phenomenological Psychology...
... and the Analysis of the Processes of Consciousness. The internal states that are imposed on the consciousness...
... another factor... These are all factors that influenced later, being Jung young, in his investigation.
Martin Heidegger, very known among the scholars of philosophy...
... continuator of Phenomenology, of Existential Entology, was also disciple of Husserl, ...
... wrote a lot, principally "Being and Time", which is one of the classic books about Philosophy and Psychology.
There is also an influence that people do not know, and that is Friederich Nietzche.
Nietzche was a philosophy teacher at Basel, Switzerland, during Jung´s youth.
He didn´t meet Nietzche personally, but he did meet his sister, Elizabeth Foster... who published his books...
... And he connected with her, and she explained the meaning of his books.
Nietzche´s books are everywhere... I suggest you some of them: "Beyond Good and Evil", ...
..."On the Genealogy of Morality", "Ecce Homo", "Twilight of the Idols" and his masterpiece "Thus Spoke Zarathustra".
Well, these are the first influences of the young Jung.
Since 1912 he moves away and returns to Switzerland, and follows this other school... School of Gnostic Psychology, ...
... investigates all these proposals... because he didn´t invent anything, he simply devoted himself to investigating...
... firstly, all ancient greek philosophy, a lot of oriental philosophy, western precolumbian philosophy...
He traveled all over the world to prove and corroborate his theory, his system.
Today I will talk about his system point by point, and in other videos we are going to precisly detail what does this all mean.
This graphic you see here, is Dr. Jung´s Psychological Diagram, with the Archetypes, wich we are going to explain.
Jung talks about "Psyche" as "Soul". We all know the word "Soul", (which is "Psyche", a greek word) through religion.
People know this world due to western religion. But no one told what the soul is, as a psychological function.
Instead of this, it was spoken in a monotheistic way of Heaven and Hell and nothing else.
Freud began to develop this subject in a very childish and elementary way...
... with the Oedipus Complex, at the end of 1890´s, which was the beginning of the modern psychology, ...
... at a childish phase. And later on, the psychology continued advancing.
Look, since the 19th Century with Edison's invention of the bulb.... And all the inventions that were in the 19th century...
... to the present day, with all the electronic devices from science...
... the science of Psychology also went foward. It did not stay with Freud and Lacan.
There are vested interests that want to make that believed.
Transpersonal psychology, that is the one that is used around the world, was created by Jung.
So he speaks about de Psyche... the psyche is all this... divided into 3 parts.
The "Ego", which is a fragment of consciousness, is the waking state...
... and it is where our contradictions of our daily waking life are.
We can verify this every day... our waking state, composed by many ignorance and few knowledge...
... induces us to many contradictions. That is a little part of the whole psyche.
Then he speaks about the "Personal Unconscious"... Here is this part, "Personal Unconscious", which in Freud´s time...
... it was called the "subconscious", which was the repressed things.
This is not the repressed. Both this and this are brought by all human beings from birth, from other stages of life.
What is the Personal Unconscious? It contains the psychological complexes...
... Let´s see what complexes are, because there ir is a lot of confusion about the complexes.
Complexes are groupings of... defects and virtues.
You must say, "how virtues"? ... because the traditional psychoanalysis...
... says only complexes, neuroses, psychosis, etc.
No... here we have lots of defects and also some virtues or innate vocations.
That was discovered by Jung, he didn´t invented it... he discovered it by empirical research.
And then he speaks about his greatest discovering.
He discovered what Plato said 2.500 years ago, the "Theory of Ideas (or Forms)"...
... the psyche in its natural form, which is the "Colective Unconscious"... in a modern name.
The Colective Unconscious, which contains the Archetypes.
So there are millions of people with these parts (Ego and Personal Unconscious), 7 billion people...
... and one Colective Unconscious for al mankind. And now we are going to see what it is.
This Colective Unconscious contains Archetypes, another greek term...
... which means primordial model, initial model.
Everything that exists as the initial model of something, is an Archetype.
For example the pen... everything that is for writing is an Archetype...
... either a goose feather, or the tip of something, or today a ballpen.
Everything that is used to sit, like a chair, is an Archetype. Everything that serves as a table, is an Archetype.
Then everything that the human mind has invented through centuries, and which today remains, are Archetypes.
In this case, they are External Archetypes. And now we are going to look at the Internal Archetypes...
... wich where Jung´s great contribution to elucidate the conflicts of modern man.
First, Anima and Animus. This is getting quite divulged in journalism, but with much confusion.
Let´s see what it is, according to Jung.
The Anima is the inner male archetype. That is the male person, the man, has this archetype...
... which relates him with his inner part, and with his external world.
That is: inner feelings, inner thoughts, and external actions... of the male.
To that archetype Jung calls it "Anima".
Later, when we make the special videos, we will explain with precision all this that I am speaking of.
And the Animus is, in the woman... in the female sector, the same...
... What guides women in their inner world and their outer world.
So, as we already know, man and woman are physically different...
... If we put them naked, both of them, we can see they are different...
... and if someone says that they are the same, that is incorrect.
As for the psychological, they are also different. The way of thinking and feeling, and having roles...
... are different in men and woman, and this was empirically demonstrated by Jung.
Then he talked about the "Character"... let's see which Character... the "Character" is the roles.
When we live in the physical world we do roles.
First as a baby, because we are just born, a baby ... baby role... we adults can´t do a baby role, right? ...
... The baby does it. Then the child role, the adolescent role, the different middle-aged roles...
Young person, of different ages. Now different ages of youth are classified.
... Third, fourth, fifth age and so on... Until the eighth age.
And then the old age. Physically, we have a correct orientation that as the body ages, it makes us perform roles.
But nowadays, it is not done as Jung says.
In addition to the natural roles... Baby, child, teenager, young and elder.... there are social roles.
Doctor, architect, lawyer, politician, scientist... There were always those characters, in all civilizations...
... although they would be called by another name.
In ancient India, in Greece, in prehistoric Egypt, in precolumbian times...
There have always been all these professional roles. Although they have different names.
Well, that is the "Character". We are going to really see what is the Archetype and the correct model of use...
...  of the Archetypes, and how in the 20th and 21st century, they have deviated.
Then, Jung speaks of the real consciousness, of the real "Me", wich he calls it "Self"...
... which in Taoist psychology is called "The Consciousness of The Center", ...
... and in Hindu psychology is called "Atman"... or the Real Self, which is the center of the psyche.
This one (the Ego) is not the real self, this is just a little ego for living in the waking state.
If not, we could not move through the four physical dimensions.
The Ego is present for a while during the day, and then when we go to sleep, ...
... it disappears, and enters here (the Unconscious), and that is where dreams appear.
Later on, Jung talks about Libido, which is the psychic energy.
Of course the idea of ​​Libido, accentuated in the West, is for Freudians and Neofreudians, only sexuality.
For this modern Tranpersonal Psychology, coming from Jung and from the West, which is a true psychology...
The psychic energy, which today we call "Libido", is the whole physical person and has different functions.
One of them is the genitality, the reproduction, the sexuality.
Sensuality is the function of the physical senses. Because the body is sensitive, sensual.
Psychic Values. The PsychicValues ​​are related to the Archetypes.
The Archetypes are designed by a superior intelligence to the Man, organized as Psychic Values, authentic values, ...
... wich are the evolution program of the human being.
What is intuition? Today nobody knows what intuition is.
Many of you go to a traditional psychoanalyst, and they do not know for sure what it is.
Jung discovers that Intuition is the intelligence of the Self.
There are two types of intelligence. The intelligence of the Ego: basic, chaotic, very crude and slow.
And a very fast intelligence which we call Intuition... Suddenly I know something, and i do not know why.
It is the intelligence of the Self.
Jung also talks about the Principle of Equivalency. Is the relationship between the Ego and the Unconscious.
How this movement, of the Ego with the Unconscious and visceversa, works?
Entropy are the variables of human behavior.
Negative and positive emotions and ideas. The creative and destructive ideas of scientists.
All the variables that this movement of human nature has, which is the psyche, the mind.
That's what Jung calls Entropy... Variables.
The evolution system he discovered, and invented, ... because he had his own school, ...
... "The school of Individuation" as a modern name. The ancient name was "Initiation", no one knows it nowadays.
Therefore he set a modern idea, the "Individuation". Do not confuse it with individualism... which is not the same.
Individualistic is the modern man. Individuation is the integral man.
For that, he discovered a method called "Energy Canalization"... Energy that disperses, that gets lost.
A special practice, which we will talk about in other videos.
This is what is called "Individuation".
And then there is the Transcendent Function. What is this?
Is the innate vocation that already brings each individual at birth.
From previous stages of life, we have brought innate defects and vocations... natural ones.
Such as being a good craftsman, a good peasant ... everything that is done well.
We have sporadic examples of people being great musicians, scientists, and clairvoyants... since their childhood.
They are innate vocations. All human beings have them...
Why can´t they express them? Because of the "Massification".
As modern man is massified, he has blocked his natural vocation... we are going to see that with precision.
Then Jung talks about Psychological Types. In Western psychology... in our modern and democratic world...
It was said that there are two Psychological Types, the rich and the poor, the literate and the illiterate. It is not like this.
Jung rediscovers in greek, egyptian and aryan psychologies...
... in all times psychologies... and in his own experience, traveling all over the world, ...
... that there are 7 different psychological types, and not 2... and 49 sub types. We are going to explain it too.
Jung also talks a lot about Myths. What are the myths? Today the journalist, the common writer...
... says that myths are similar to lies... "This is a myth as a lie"... That is not like that.
Myths are sets of guiding and evolutionary ideas... and this is the ancient language of peoples... the mythologies.
"Logy" or "Logos" means "teaching", and "Myth" means "content".
He studied the myths of all ancient peoples, which contain enormous amounts...
... of positive and historic ideas for evolution.
The key of his system is Symbolism and Dreams... To decipher the Symbolisms and Dreams of the World...
... but not in Freud´s way, but in the way of the Science of Symbology.
Because the Unconscious works with a symbolic structure, and not a literal one.
And to understand dreams, and we would like to understand them all, we must study Symbology.
The Self is the real "Me", is the immortal part of the human being.
Atheists would deny it... because they "thank God I'm an atheist"... wright?
... but there is something immortal in the human being, which lies forgotten because of materialism.
Something that subsists after the body, which is the "Being", the Consciousness of Being.
Later, Jung discovers the Synchronicity Principle...
... which is an acausal law, that in the modern world we call it... How? "Chance".
There is no "chance", it is all organized in the Universe. There is no "chance", it is the Law of Synchronicity...
... Which simultaneously presents us something to help us ... these are the "signs".
And then he bases his psychology a lot on Alchemy.
Because the alchemists were western esoteric schools of the Middle Ages...
... who disguised as chemists, because they were persecuted, and worked with an esoteric psychology.
And Jung deciphered the books, because the alchemist books were written and drawn in code, because of the persecution.
And he had the great intelligence to decipher it... Jung's Red Book was recently published.
Where he transmits in Mandalas, great teachings of Alchemy.
Well... This is, in tight synthesis, the true story of Jung, ...
... of his psychological system, of the new Transpersonal Psychology, ...
... that is the one that will change the Human Being in this new Historical Epoch that is being born.
Therefore, our School, the Aztlan School, ...
... is going to be producing videos to describe, point by point, Jung's system, ...
... the psychology of the Fourth Way, Buddhist psychology, and many other issues that are necessary today ...
... to change the conflicts we have, because all the old systems no longer solve anything.
Well, thanks for connecting with us, and see you in the next video.
