/lit/ - Literature

So basically nonduality and enlightenment for a Western audience?

Top 5 books by Jung or his followers?

Did he ever explain what the process of "active imagination" is like?

Would Jung voluntarily traumatize a client, risking its death, with the goal of freeing him from the demons of his past?

Would he, via transfer, embed the image of the demons and confront you to it until you either get free (individuate) or die?

Yourself, would you consider this practice morally acceptable?

Tell us about your femenine side anon.

I like Jung's idea of individuation as some sort of self-help goal to strive for, and to avoid sleepwalking through life, doing just what circumstances have convinced me I should do. But I am at the same time extremely skeptical of the existence of some true inner-self and truth that you can discover or create. It seems that anything that you once thought of as being authentic, could later be shown to be another mask, a compromise between individual or society, or an inner cope. The only proof I can adduce for the existence of the self is the uncomfortable feeling when you know you are not being "yourself", which could just be the feeling of incongruity between the different masks. Maybe the true self is actually disgusting and the masks are the only thing that matters.

Thoughts please.

>Heidegger's modus philosophandi is neurotic through and through and is ultimately rooted in his psychic crankiness.
>His kindred spirits, close or distant, are sitting in lunatic asylums, some as patients and some as psychiatrists on a philosophical rampage.
>For all its mistakes the nineteenth century deserves better than to have Heidegger counted as its ultimate representative.
>[...]
>Excuse these blasphemies!
>They flow from my hygienic propensities, because I hate to see so many young minds infected by Heidegger
>Carl Jung, Letters Vol. 1, Pages 330-332
As a pseud who likes both, I have to ask. Why the hate bros?

Did Jung have a childhood trauma?