Beyond The Ego And Mythical Psychological Reality
This essay is about psychological reality. Paradoxically, psychological reality is mythical. It is dreamlike. There is psychological reality… i.e. we are conscious beings with unconscious experiences. Just beyond the conscious mind the psyche is constantly in a dream-state. Hence when we drift off to sleep all of that dream-world takes over. The repression of the conscious ego relaxes its grip and soon lets go altogether and the more 'real you' takes over… the fantasist. Hence the child who has watched a horror movie that night (and was frightened by it) will have nightmares due to his conscious defenses sleeping and the fantasy material (that he has turned into symbolic images of fear) breakthrough. Likewise the mother whose child has perished in a tragic accident, whilst not being able to repress her horrific feelings consciously… will have absolutely no success if she ever gets any sleep… because again, her repressing conscious defenses will be down. Admittedly they are extreme examples (especially the latter) but the psyche is constantly dreaming anyway in a dialogue with consciousness. The fact of the matter is that even if ones life is mundane the deeper part of the mind will be day-dreaming and if a hypnotist were to make the conscious mind sleep or to go to the borderline of waking consciousness and sleep… the individual would experience his dream world reality. This is totally irrespective of the intelligence or excitement of his life, or of any other factor. Hence Depth Psychology speaks of mythical psychological reality. How can the nature of the psyche be both mythical and real? That question can be answered by way of an example. Imagine a young man with a mild neurotic personality. He's always stressed out about something and this makes it hard for him to function effectively in everyday life. Then one-day he is conscripted to fight in a war for his country.
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Beyond The Ego And Mythical Psychological Reality
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