“The hypothesis of the unconsciousness” writes Jung “puts a large question mark after the idea of the psyche.” As his
practice matured, Jung came to realize
that the soul is not a scientific object at all; on the contrary, it is what
makes such objectification possible : “every
science is a function of the psyche and all knowledge is rooted in it.” But
how is psychology – "the science of the
soul" – to proceed if its foundational hypothesis admits the existence of an
autonomously functioning unconsciousness ? This and more in my books or a new
one to be written.
This difficulty was recognized by the cultural philosopher Jean Gebser.
According to him :
“There is no so-called
unconsciousness. There are only various modalities (or intensities) of
consciousness; a one-dimensional magical, a two-dimensional mythical and a
three-dimensional mental consciousness. And there will also be an integral
four-dimensional consciousness of the whole.”
Carl Jung’s points of view is based upon duality, reminding his “Extraversion vs. Introversion”
modalities. Regarding this there is this same similarity concerning the issue
of Consciousness and UnConsciousness. That’s what it is all about. In the same
way we consider Dabrowski’s "Positive DisIntegration" at High Gifted people,
capable to tune in for “unknown” energies or information being the unfoldness
of a part of Unconsciousness. In that way I described the Zèta function of
Bernhard Riemann earlier in "Apprenti". The Riemann function implies a summary of several dimensions
of awareness including self awareness, resulting in a higher consciousness
untill the ultimate level where the deviation approaches “zero”. This
a-symmetry and this change or even better, exchange of both consciousnesses like it is
for Henri Bergson looking at “Time”.
Both Gebser and Steiner will provide important additions and amendments
to Jung’s Psychology, so as to avoid the undue reduction of spiritual realities
to psychic projections, think of archetypal energies of the soul. The archetype
of the Self is for Jung both the center (introverting) and the circumference
(extraverting) of the psyche. It unifies all opposites by luring the psyche
towards a more complex form of wholeness. Regarding Riemann’s word
“MultiPlicity” and Ouspensky's tours
within his "Enneagram"– #9; his number of wholeness, the way to come to
Self-Healing, the state of an autonomous entity, a monad.
Whereas for Freud the desire for psychic wholeness is nothing but a
regressive infantile longing for the past existence in the mother’s womb, for
Jung it represents our human need to simultaneously discover our cosmic extent
and penetrate to our spiritual essence (see blog "Teleology"). Gebser, Steiner and
Jung all agree at this point. Steiner :
”In our unconsciousness we have to find
the most essential transitional forces for the whole of human kind and just as
we find in the individual the most important forces for the development of a fully awake
consciousness.”
Recognition of the mutual interplay between the individual and the
collective should be in the heart of any deep inquiry into the psyche. Think in this way of duality of
eg. the method “Spiral Dynamics", Ken Wilber and “the 4 Word Views” of
McWhinney.
~~~ end of part 1 ~~~
(re-sourcing : Matthew Segall)
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