The biblical example of the splinter we see in the other’s eye without detecting the beam we carry in our own is the basic lesson of projection. We hate in others and with great intensity that which we do not like about ourselves, but this fits into a «blind spot», we cannot see it. However, […]
The other diary
My phone alarm goes off and says «Do the laundry.” It’s funny, even it has a magic touch, because doing laundry is putting the dirty laundry (which isn’t quite dirty either) in a drum, pouring a little soap powder on it, then turning a knob and that’s it. Magic grace because in the countryside the […]
First approach to the concept of exclusivity
At some point my old man said to me, «I’m going to save you a lot of frustration, you’re a long way from being a genius or something, so get it out of your head that your grades indicate something like that.” Around the same time, and after an intense discussion that I barely managed […]
Carl Gustav Jung – The Wisdom of Dreams – Part 3
When he was presented with an incurable case of alcoholism, Jung could not help but reaffirm his conception of archetypes, and it was from there that he established that the patient could not be healed except through a spiritual experience. The essential question is what prevents normal behaviour? In alcoholism, he saw an anxiety of […]
Carl Gustav Jung – The Wisdom of Dreams – Part 2
If we ask ourselves why did John catch a cold? We put the intellect in a slightly different direction than we directed it if we ask ourselves why does man get sick? This is the kind of differentiation that Jung made with the development of his research on the collective unconscious, of course, not so […]
Carl Gustav Jung – The Wisdom of Dreams – Part 1
Once a new level of understanding of reality is reached, the difficulty of transmitting it is precisely that it is something new. What we know as «resistance to change», or «fear of change», is nothing more than the result of an education system that does not consider the possibility of new or different points of […]
