r/Jung 3h ago

Serious Discussion Only When i see certain types of people I get a visceral reaction of disgust

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No I do not mean heavy people or even unattractive people, but a certain type of people that exude low intellectual and cultural curiosity/interest, it eats at me for days and my mood feels tainted and I feel at unease for some time. What jungian perspectives can I take away from this other than just thinking feelings of disgust


r/Jung 4h ago

Personal Experience Weirdest/funniest synchronicities you had

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I'll start with mine, I was watching a bit of Bill Burr saying "you know, woman have theses things where things go well and they just shit all over it" and my brother dropped the loudest fart of the night. I had a great number of them, feel free to share yours

Archetype Shadow etc


r/Jung 1h ago

Personal Experience Others projecting their shadow onto me the more shadow work I do?

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Not sure if anyone has noticed this too. It could a coincidence, and perhaps it’s just a heightened time of anxiety, paranoia and moral absolutism because of social media, so there are more shadow projections in general. It seems though that the more I understand how I have and DO project my shadow onto others, the more intensely someone projects their shadow onto me.

Usually I hear of this projection from other people, the person doesn’t tell me directly. I will sit with whatever it is they are claiming/framing me as and try to see where I fit in there, what I can work on, but sometimes it really is there own bs they need to work through, and there’s nothing you can do but leave them alone. Still I can’t say it isn’t disorienting/dysregulating for me to feel fundamentally misunderstood.

Do you think this is because shadow work makes us act more authentic and accepting, and this registers to others as abnormal/uncertain? I reflect on a time in my life when an ex of mine was doing shadow work, and I was not aware of my shadow whatsoever. He began to speak of things in a very matter of fact way that made me uncertain of him, and this triggered my shadow and suspicion of him, though it was only temporary thankfully.


r/Jung 49m ago

Serious Discussion Only When Memory Starts Thinking for Us

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I have been pondering a differentiation that seems simple enough, yet somehow strange upon closer inspection.

We all have a skull, a nervous system, a single stream of consciousness. Yet thought may arise from two totally different places within us.

Sometimes thought is in response to something real that is happening, Something happens to us, we experience it somehow, and we think about it.

But a second type of thought seems to be in response to something totally different. Something enormous happens inside of us, somehow. We experience memories, thoughts, fears, old images, projections, ideas about ourselves and others. All of this has nothing to do with whatever is actually happening. But before we even experience what is really happening, we are already thinking about this enormous amount of material.

I think this is how unconscious identification with memory and imagination leads to dysfunction.

There is nothing wrong with Memory and Imagination. The problem is becoming unconscious of the fact that this is what is even happening. The problem is identifying with memory, imagination, and the fabrications of the ego as reality.

Someone says something a little bit mean. The actual "attack" may be very small. But if we have an old memory that gets triggered, our ego identifies with that memory, imagination inflates, we are now thinking about what this person "really meant", what they "must think", etc. All of this has nothing to do with the direct experience of what is actually happening. Yet all of these thoughts about what is not-happening are completely rational. They seem perfectly logical, if we are unconscious of the fact that we are even thinking about them.

This seems to me to get at what Jung meant with complexes. That in some way they do not care if we become conscious of them, they care to take over our perceptions. We do not simply "think about" something, we experience it in a certain way because there is something else that has happened to us previously and that something else is taking over our perceptions.

Maybe this is how becoming psychologically aware does not really mean accumulating more knowledge about psychology. It may mean becoming conscious of these automatic processes, which is really a matter of differentiating ourselves from them.

If there is enough psychological awareness to differentiate immediate perceptions from projections and memories, then thinking can become incredibly simple. We can see that something happened to us. We can think about it secondarily. Not because we have erased the ego, memory, or imagination, but because we are no longer identified with those things. The memory can remain memory, the imagination can remain imagination, and the ego can remain ego. And maybe, just maybe, that is when functional thought begins.


r/Jung 1h ago

100% Human Getting to know people based on Archetypes and Symbols

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Let's run a little fun experiment: let's get to know each other based on archetypes and symbols. In the era of digitalization, it's becoming harder and harder to get to know each other better. We tend to make superficial connections on social media by swiping or just seeing external false ego-driven experiences. And getting to know someone's internal world just happens to be extremely difficult, even in person when conversations about our life are so empty and shallow.

Let's try this for a change. If you had to list a bunch of archetypes / symbols for each major area of your life, what objects would you choose? The major areas of one's life, I believe would be:

  • Spiritual
  • Material/Career
  • Dreams
  • Hobbies
  • Shadows (things you hate about yourself or others!)
  • Passions (inner child / what did you like or want to be as a child, and what do you like now)
  • Emotions and Personality

Then based on these symbols. Can you infer how this person is like? What are their dreams and aspirations? What his/her current life looks like or what they want to achieve in life? Let's pretend these major areas of your life are rooms in your house, and you need to decorate them. What objects would you choose for each room? I will attempt to read your inner world based on the symbols you choose. Anyone interested?

I will start:

  • Spiritual:
    1. A rug on the floor with a Mandala drawing
    2. A painting of fractal geometry
    3. An altar
    4. A canvas painting of Lakshmi
    5. A ganesha figure
    6. A Yoga mat on the floor
    7. A book about the occult
    8. Some Tarot Cards
  • Material/Career:
    1. A Suitcase
    2. A suit
    3. Cash on a marble table
    4. A bitcoin cold storage wallet
    5. A Gaming PC
    6. A software code on a laptop
    7. A computer with a monitor showing an image of someone breaking a chain
  • Dreams:
    1. A buddha figure on a table
    2. An image of an Aphrodite
    3. An image of a beautiful goddess
  • Shadows:
    1. A painting on the wall of a businessmen accumulating money while laughing at others' misfortune
  • Hobbies:
    1. A Tennis Racquet
  • Passions (Inner child - what did I like as a child?):
    1. A video game console (Nintendo Console)
    2. A Chessboard on a table
    3. A desk with a microscope and some electronics equipment (breadboard, soldering iron etc)
  • Emotions / Personality
    1. An image of a warrior

I believe the symbols we choose to represent ourselves will show our shadows, fears, aspirations and dreams much better than a normal conversation.

Feel free to try to read my inner world, how do I perceive myself, and shoot your symbols if you are interested in me readings yours!


r/Jung 3h ago

Question for r/Jung Marion Woodman’s view on illness/mind connection - Question

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So I adore Marion Woodman’s work, and also an avid reader of any and all Jung-related literature/theories.

From my limited understanding of Marion’s work: illness/symptoms/addiction can manifest as expended energy of the subconscious that is not being appropriately expressed.

My question: why are “narcissistic” types (overused and limiting term I know, but you get the point) so often beacons of physical health??

Aren’t the people who mistake their persona for their “true self” (specifically those who lean into superiority and cruelty) harboring the most repressed feelings? And thus, wouldn’t those feelings cause health crises according to the above logic? I would think grandiose types would be most prone to illness, but it seems to be opposite? As a generalization, it seems like it’s the overly empathetic, self-abandoning types that seem most afflicted.


r/Jung 16h ago

Question for r/Jung A deathbed visit

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Hi all, new here.

I have been vaguely mentored for years by a woman decades my senior who has shaped my ideas about dreams, action, symbol etc.

I just(in the last few hours) found out that she’s on her deathbed, getting palliative care but not long for us. I feel very fortunate that she’s geographically near to me now, and that I have the opportunity to spend time with her tomorrow.

She did contact work in the seventies, met her husband in those groups. We’ve talked openly since my teens about the richness that a relationship with death brings to our daily lives, but man oh man I am feeling like I don’t know how to be. Would appreciate any insight on offer.


r/Jung 7h ago

Learning Resource Where to dive into Jungian golden child/scapegoat archetypes?

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My psychiatrist just hit me with that and it got to the depths of my soul. Apparently I was given the role of both. Now I need to know everything about it. Which of the books shall I get to? Direct Jung‘s works or people writing about them? Or anything completely different?


r/Jung 2h ago

Question for r/Jung Individuation showing up as a young immigrant?

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Hi all; I’ve been mulling over this for over a week now. I’m tired and looking for someone, anyone who might relate to my story.

I feel like I may be experiencing a pull towards individuation after leaving my country of origin at a very young age (17). My country is on the news and started a war with another country a few years back; I think you can guess which one that is.

Seven years ago, before the war and with my parents’ financial support, I moved to another country to pursue a bachelor’s degree and possibly stay. It was always the plan for me to leave, the plan that my parents had and I never particularly objected to, even though for a time I considered pursuing a psychological education in my country of origin, which was shunned by my parents and for that reason never considered further by me.

I really, really disliked my study, but enjoyed the freedom and independence that came with living abroad. I was not doing well mentally during COVID, and that was also when I realised that I hated my study, that I wanted to do more. But I was already half-way through; I confronted my parents and they shut down the discussion. I completed my study, graduated, and got a job at the place I interned. I enjoyed having a job and being able to provide for myself, covering all of my expenses. As a junior, the actual job part of it was also fine, but about two years ago I started growing tired and bored of it. Every year there would come a time when I would break down and have to take time off work; this year I went on full-out burnout leave.

All along, I was tied to this job as a visa requirement. Recently, I obtained the citizenship of the country I moved to, which freed me up a lot more, yet I feel no pull whatsoever to pursuing another job; it all feels equally dead to me. On my burnout leave, I had been trying to do various courses and do more creative things / hobbies I usually don’t have time of energy for. While I enjoy them and can produce quality works, it’s nowhere near enough for a sustainable life / job. I don’t speak the language of the country confidently enough to fully fit in or to have more job prospects, and I frankly have no desire to invest more energy into it than I already have.

Around a year ago, I started having doubts about my future in this country. I am currently visiting my parents in my country of origin and the doubts have increased tenfold. Not even the life conditions of my home country being pretty dire / unstable, having no connections other than family or just the danger of moving to a country at war stop me from having these considerations. Both options feel hopeless. I don’t want to give up what I spent so much time building, to return to a place that has very little to offer in terms of a stable, calm, healthy life. It terrifies me to think about it, quite frankly. Yet I have this conviction that, by moving young, I skipped a crucial part of development; that living an easier life abroad means I have to catch up on suffering and eating shit sooner or later, and I better do it sooner. With that, a lot of guilt for not being more persistent with my parents, feeling like I only recently developed a mind of my own, separate from theirs.

So there are two aspects; one, being genuinely unhappy / discontent where I live for very real reasons. Two, feeling like I have to make up for inaction earlier in life and suffer meaningfully this time, to self-actualise and integrate. All that with the backdrop of a country sliding further and further into crisis, and a country I have lived in for 7 years now but see no future in. It all feels like a huge mistake, and I’m not happy with / terrified of the seemingly only way out of it (moving back).

Honestly, just looking for someone with a similar experience / someone with immigration in their biography who has been through similar doubts and managed to integrate them without letting their life fall apart. I feel like I have exhausted my sources. Yes, I have a therapist. Some parts may have been written somewhat emotionally / with exaggeration; that’s only because I’ve been obsessing over this for the last hours and weeks, and am running on little sanity left over lol.

Thank you!!


r/Jung 6h ago

Art Why Jung’s Active Imagination Might Matter More Than Ever

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Just wanted to share a podcast that will be out on September 3rd. They talk about Carl Jung’s active imagination and dream analysis, and why these ideas might be important in this century and for the future of art.

There’s also a discussion about Jung’s work and art in this new age of AI, and why reconnecting these ideas feels more urgent now.

Thought some people here might find it interesting. If you have a little time on September 3rd, give it a listen.


r/Jung 4h ago

Personal Experience Looking for someone to do Jungian psychotherapy with me — student, no budget

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Hi all,

I’m a law student with a long-standing interest in Jung, depth psychology, and inner transformation more broadly

I’d really like to actually go through a Jungian analysis process rather than just reading about it, but I’m a student and can’t afford therapy right now. Is there anyone here — a trainee analyst needing practice hours, someone running a low-cost/sliding-scale group, or just someone experienced who’d be open to working with me pro bono — who might be willing to take this on, or who can point me toward a resource for this?

Happy to share more about what’s drawing me to this if it helps.

Thanks!


r/Jung 13h ago

Personal Experience Chronicle of an Inner Passage: From Resistance to Integration

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I would like to share my experience with you... I haven't posted much until now, but here I feel I can do so. I am sharing a brief summary of what happened to me, and I would appreciate your feedback. I have been working on my process of jungian Integration for years and years, and I was genuinely surprised by the rapid pace of certain phases recently. I now deeply realize that the entire process works in coiling spirals and will never truly end.
The process began with a dream of strong emotional impact, in which the appearance of a radical and destructive Shadow figure (related to my Animus) broke the control that my Ego had been exerting for months. This block manifested in daily life through severe morning fatigue and a tendency to procrastinate: defense mechanisms put in place by my Ego to avoid a change perceived as a collapse of its own life structures. Through self-observation, I was able to map the psychosomatic path of this tension, which is linked to family irritations and conflicts. The anxiety is born at a visceral level, in the stomach, in the form of a dark green energy. Finding no outlet on the outside (due to my clear introverted closure and refusal to give explanations), this force rises like lightning toward the head, where it magnifies through thought. In the mind, the energy takes a precise geometric shape: two two-toned snakes forming an inverted eight (an infinite loop) and positioning their heads on the eyebrows, pushing outward. This muscular and energetic tension represents the "mask" of silence behind which I hid to protect myself. The turning point occurred by experiencing disidentification: the act of consciously visualizing the shape of the snakes instantly diminishes the pressure of the drive. By shifting consciousness from the Ego to the Witness (the Self), the blind force transforms into a symbol and loses its destructive charge.

The following night, the psyche accelerated the process by integrating the opposites in two distinct dreams within the same night. In the first, there was a peaceful dialogue with the rigid Shadow that I previously rejected and hated; in the second, the protective figure of my grandmother stabilized the process, showing me walls decorated with white ivory sculptures (pheraps symbolizing the transition to Albedo?) depicting intertwined hands and arms. The fluid and chaotic pain thus structured itself into something solid and observable from the outside.

The journey found its physical grounding in the Reims Cathedral. Faced with the verticality of the sacred space, my Ego finally loosened its grip, manifesting a deep need for sleep and mental silence. Sitting in isolation from the crowd, the tension on my eyebrows vanished. The energy of the winged snake, previously blocked in my head, found its external counterpart in the monumental eagle lectern of the cathedral: a symbol of elevation and detachment that allowed my consciousness to rest in the regenerated emptiness of the Self.


r/Jung 17h ago

Personal Experience Freudian Slips and the Projection of Other People’s Trickster Archetype onto You

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Hi, so in this post I want to share some of my experiences regarding the connection between the projection of the Trickster archetype and Freudian slips.

It seems that when we suppress the “unacceptable” parts of ourselves, there is no way for people to understand our true intentions or who we really are. When this happens, there is no box for people to put you in, and this seems to be one of the greatest nightmares for most Kings.

It seems that people will then desperately look for other ways to “expose” you, which will often lead to a decompensation. From what I’ve experienced, the more “sensual and extroverted” the person is, the more severe the projection tends to be.

When we don’t allow the Trickster to express itself, it finds new and often more destructive ways to manifest in our lives.


r/Jung 16h ago

Personal Experience If your profession requires you to wear a "mask," how do you deal with the distance between it and your real self?

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I've been thinking about something for a while: how does the gap between the "social mask" and the real self vary across different professions?

Here's roughly the ranking I came up with:

Actors They build the mask consciously and professionally; the practice of stepping in and out of different identities is at its highest here.

Politicians – Public image is essentially the foundation of the entire career; the private self is systematically hidden.

Social media personalities / influencers The constant need to produce a "watched" version of themselves widens the distance between persona and real self.

Senior executives (CEOs, corporate leaders) Maintaining an image of authority and control is part of the job.

Clergy / spiritual leaders Society's expectation of "sacred" or "virtuous" behavior creates a very rigid mask.

Therapists / psychologists The image of professional neutrality and calm requires a clear separation from personal emotional life.

Teachers / academics The "knowledgeable authority" role becomes a strong persona, especially when sustained over a long time.

PR professionals / spokespeople – Being the official face of an institution or person is the very definition of the job.

I'm in category 7.

In terms of classroom management, sometimes I come across as angry, sometimes I laugh at a not-remotely-funny joke a student makes just to kill time in class. Sometimes I'm overly strict, sometimes indifferent, sometimes a know-it-all, sometimes curious, sometimes irritated, sometimes happy. I'm one character in the classroom and a completely different one on the street. But this sometimes puts me in a kind of identity confusion.

There's a detail that makes it even more interesting: I'm also attending a second university, and I take final exams there, where I'm the student. But at my own school, I proctor exams, where I'm the authority. I go back and forth between these two roles within the same day.

I don't particularly enjoy it, but most of the time I have no choice but to wear this mask.

Do you experience something similar? If your profession requires you to carry a "mask," how do you deal with the distance between it and your real self?


r/Jung 1d ago

Jung Put It This Way No, Jung does not permit identifying with an archetype.

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The characteristic feature of a pathological reaction is, above all, identification with the archetype. This produces a sort of inflation and possession by the emergent contents, so that they pour out in a torrent which no therapy can stop.


r/Jung 22h ago

Serious Discussion Only What happens when our understanding of reality becomes too fixed?

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I've been exploring the concept of nonduality and how it challenges our traditional views on reality. It's led me to question the notion of a fixed self and the world around us. I came across this video that explores the paradox of nonduality and its impact on our understanding of reality: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7c4t2dS8pg


r/Jung 17h ago

Question for r/Jung Performative persona and deep fear in the unconcious

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Has anyone else noticed how difficult it seems for this person to just be themselves, even though they come across as very charming and confident ? Sometimes their behavior feels more performative than natural as if they are constantly presenting a certain version of themselves rather than simply being authentic. Like their persona is strong but we feel there is something off , persona becomes stronger or more performative when the underlying fear in the unconcious becomes deeper and thats driving them , whats jungian take on this ? Are they psychopaths ?


r/Jung 1d ago

Personal Experience The Lover - split into Victim-Perpertrator Complex

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Lived 34 fucking years of my life with this shit only to finally understand this and how it intertwines within my psyche.

Since my last post on rage expressing genuinely what I felt and being met here by people something fundamentally changed. My life is changing. I feel more stable and answers and past problems seem to resolve on its own. My connection to the Self is stronger and more trusting than ever. Something is looking out for me and helping me heal. Surrender was one of the major reasons this is happening. Its letting go of everything and everyone and submitting to the tides of life and allowing myself to arive at parts I need to look at. These events are what bring me here now to write this post for I feel it is important to express and share.

After all the things that happened I started smoking weed more often. I think I might have smoked bit more than 5 times in past few weeks combining it with time in nature and surrender. In these moment I contemplate weather its concious or subconcious. I noticed movement which is one of the most important things for me since being in a slur for so long.

Few years ago I made few posts and drawings about Vampires and talked about these energy. But I wasnt there yet to understand what it actually meant. Atleast not the way I do now. Anyway proceeding with what I came to tell here.

I have been haunted for few months now. During night especially when my defenses were low something from the unconcious would invade my concious awareness and I would feel it through somatic experience. The presence is cold and preditory having this hollow feeling to it. The other night I woke up at 3:50 or something with sort of a scream and voice and remember the last sentence which was: "I want to seal you and destroy you." I would always wake up around 4am in the night not understanding why.

So few weeks ago when I smoked some weed I started to sleep better. I noticed integration happening in the night. I would feel pieces of myself being puzzled together and feel libido energy flowing better through my body like some sort of energetic grid was being realigned. Something about dosage of the weed I was taking allowed something to open up or like allowed something unusual to happen within my psyche that caused slight changes. I cant really express this in words its like a perspective change and something higher than myself seeing things differently. What I noticed was that weed started to open things up for me. I would feel things I havent felt for years. Stories I was attached to for so long started mattering less. And this is the important part the part I am talking about is the experiences connected to the shadow of The Lover archetype.

I started to feel my younger self when I was in my 20s and still had a lot of vitality in me. All those memories were there and vididly I could remember again which was crazy. I was thinking I was dissociatiing which I think I was but it wasnt like an isolated event atleast that is what it felt like. Also it felt like an opportunity to heal or reawaken this part. Through certain experiences this part has been shut down inside me for almost 10 years I think so this was my chance and I took it. I started exploring these memories and sensations I was presented with also with the same somatic sensations I was dealing with my whole life. Having this younger part active my brain would work differently I would have a slightly different perspective on things and could still access all my current memories. So this started helping me connect the dots. I remember looking in the mirror and I saw a flicker of a boy. A state of myself when I was young about 14-15. I remember that sweet boy and connected to him through his appearance in the mirror. My smile came back. After years of rot, depression, sadness, grief and what not since I started this journey I would see my own smile back which was a pleasant and very vulnurable surprise. Most important thing I could see my own reflection in the mirror. I could feel myself which I have been disconnected from more than 4-5 years from now. But there was something else going on constantly. I would get these earie feelings or compulsions. Sometimes even intrucive thoughts that didnt feel foreign but clearly were created by some other part in me. So after exploring this I came face to face with my protective self which has a face of a beast or a vampire over the face of that boy.

Since this connection happened stuff started brewing changes started happening within as without. There is this experience of seperateness which is very pleasant in contrast to enmeshment which causes me to see things more clearly. I started remembering my romatic interests, women became more attractive for me, I remembered my summer love from 2013 and my sex life with my ex which has been locked away for years. This all was strange but at the same time amaizing since I was remembering parts that were basically dead for years and now comming back to life.

With all this and my current knowledge something else started brewing. Toxic shame around my own sexuality or sexual expression. A severe wound that I have been living with for years. Weird somatic feelings of another presence. Its like having a map with fog of war and some parts being lighten up I could start making connection. Few years I broke silence about csa that I experience during my childhood. That did not go well caused more problems that solutions. I know things happened but I never had any memories of it. Untill now I start to connect the dots. Lover. Shadow. Victim. Addict. Perpetrator. Split personality. Scapegoating. Gaslighting. Stonewalling. Avoidance. All of these shape a story about me one that is too long to tell. But all of them pointing to a disgusting truth that there was some sort of ritual sexual abuse happening highly likely within the family or not far off. Now I am not here to tell stories about this but rather share how shadow work unravels for me and how integration of things happen so that other can learn something from it. I learned that all of the somatic symptoms were pointing to something that happened to me. Maybe during the night at around 4am.. idk but surely my body knows. It knows very well and I learning that the body is the one telling the story only its not using words. It uses somatic memories, behavioir disfunctions, addictions, compulsive behaviour and many more. All of this is connected to what happened in my youth. This experience as of so far has been liberating for me. I realized that I am not broken nor am I in danger anymore nor there are ghosts in my house at 4am and that all of this is just somatic echos from the past. All of it makes so much sense..

This brings me to the complex itself. Victim-Perpetrator. Victim-Perpetrator complex is an amalgam template for abuse. It is the psychic entanglement created when experience fills its causing life long entanglement between these archetypes. The boy is the victim and the vampire is the addict and the perpetrator in my story. This is how my psyche and my body has trying to tell me a story that is around 30 years old. The most amaizing thing about this all is understanding where severe damage has happening and that The Lover archetype has been almost non existant in my life except periods of romance but a lot of the time cooped by its active shadow variant the perpetrator or vampire. Tragic.. cognitively I can understand but emotionally I feel like I need to feel and grier so much that there is no end to it really. Honestly it even leaves a slightly hollow feeling after having written this down. I am making baby steps at starting to love again. Its probably a long way to go for me a really long one. But damn I fucking happy, reliefed and sad that I finally have some understanding for what I have been dealing with my whole life..

If you made it so far thanks for reading. I hope it was a bit entertaining as it was eductational. Years went into this discovery. Thanks again.


r/Jung 1d ago

Personal Experience Charachters you like in fiction and animus expression

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Ho ricominciato a guardare Lucifer, lui e Chandler sono due personaggi che ho sempre adorato. Non in modo inquietante, ma nel senso che voglio che il mio partner sia così e cerco tratti simili negli uomini.

Uomini che sono al centro dell'attenzione, umoristici, ironici. E anche se Lucifer potrebbe sembrare narcisista e Chandler l'opposto, ciò che hanno in comune è essere protettori e uomini leali.

I would act and feel like my shadow, or my true self, acting like I am made of gold, emotionally steady and all prude, acting like I don want the man although its obvious.

Ho incontrato alcune persone con una chimica speciale, avevano la stessa energia, sicuri di sé e portatori di gioia nelle stanze. Ma anche così tanto premurosi, trattandomi con curiosità, come se ci fosse qualcosa di interessante in me.

E io attorno a loro diventavo... un pavone sicura e un Ultimamente sto lavorando per costruire una relazione con il mio animus, sentendomi desiderabile, creando quella tensione calda e fredda dentro di me… senza tradimenti.

Oggi mi sono resa conto che questo è ciò che gli uomini intorno a me non hanno mai avuto… qualcosa che io non ho mai avuto… il mio sostegno.

Sto parlando con l'animus e lui continua a rassicurarmi che mi proteggerà dagli altri, mi solleverà il morale così da non autodistruggermi.

Amo il mio animus… quindi sto iniziando ad amare me stessa ed è inebriante.


r/Jung 1d ago

Personal Experience Synchronicity

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One of my college mates died recently after a brief battle with cancer. This was the second death that shocked and saddened all of us. Last year, the husband of another classmate died of cancer. He was a student counselor of our class back when he himself just graduated and as a result he felt like one of our own.

When the news of the recent death hit our online group, a classmate immediately shared that he'd had a dream the night before. In the dream, both the now diseased came to visit him together, and asked him to "drink with them", so he asked them if they wanted to drink "red or white" (wine or liquor). He was now concerned that the dream might be a message for him but he didn't know what it was. He said he was not particularly close to either of them and wondered why he was "chosen" to receive the message.

Haven't seen him since graduation, about all I know about him is he still loves drinking and gets himself drunk or half-drunk routinely. So one thing that occurred to me after he shared the dream was that the message was about his drinking habit, warning him of potential danger of him being the next to go. But is my interpretation too literal? What do you think?

Edit: I need to modify the original narrative a bit. I dug in a bit more and found out that the dreamer actually did feel he's at least somewhat close to the recently deceased classmate. He knew her conditions and talked with her about her treatment plans. The classmate who died had a warm personality and was a main organizer of all kinds of events, so I'm not surprised she had connections with many of us. In the end, maybe she did feel she should say goodbye to him instead of the others. Tagging the other mate who died last year along was just to make it "clear" what she meant.


r/Jung 1d ago

Serious Discussion Only Can anyone recommend a Jungian therapist based in the Greater Manchester area (UK)?

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I had a cursory look on the listings websites (counselling directory, psychology today) and it seemed like a lot of people had just ticked a catch-all box to say they offered ‘Jungian therapy‘ rather than actually specialising in it as in their bios it’s never actually mentioned.


r/Jung 1d ago

Question for r/Jung Someone wants to help me decipher Patrice O'neal in a Jungian motif ?

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I'm watching Elephant in the room, first stand up special I watched, Patrice is clearly an intutitive type, extraverted or introverted, he's a bit of a bully, which is sad, I'll be back but comment on it

Shadow archetype etc,


r/Jung 1d ago

Jung Put It This Way Jung being based as always.

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Jung


r/Jung 17h ago

Serious Discussion Only THIS is the EXPLANATION of LINDSAY'S ACTIONS! (+her Mania)

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r/Jung 23h ago

Question for r/Jung Looking for volunteers to help create a Jungian guide

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Hi Jungians! My friend and I are looking to turn Jung's key books (those that fall under public domain) into a AI guide that can provide hands-on advice from Jung's perspective. We are looking for 10 volunteers to help develop the guide. Please DM me if you are interested! We already have 2 slots filled. Thanks :)