Unconscious: Part Two – The Dark Arts

It's time to stop living your best life. Nothing can be said to be truly conscious, the mycelial-like network of unconscious knowledge stretches so deep that your logical left brain needs to take a minute's silence to consider the one thing it can know about the unconscious forest of terrible things; that it contains many ideas brutally repressed. You don't know what your best life even is if you pick it up off the shelf, so this week we look at Jung's list of things you don't know about yourself (and don't necessarily want to).We discuss the Jungian idea of two selves, or, how gruesome will the carpet look when you finally murder your boss? We ask, what does a "sane and sorted" life without therapy look like, when only consciousness has a voice? We turn to Carl Rogers for his view of mutually open therapy to allow access to the unconscious with the breakdown of defence mechanisms. And we were going to finish with a guide to common defence mechanisms, but got our feet wet in the mud beneath the lemongrass flower, in a discussion of psychodynamics. As future James writing this, I can however confirm that we do finally get round to this in a subsequent part in the Unconscious series. And that in the future, when we all live on Mars, the aliens really will be able to download your unconscious catalogue and laugh.The dark arts of psychology, psychiatry, and psychoanalysis/psychotherapy each dress from different collections of arts and science, and a science-valuing society can repress the art of therapy in the back of the collective unconscious wardrobe. To be truly enlightened, come with us into the forest and we'll find the witch before you become her.Further reading:'On the Nature of the Psyche' by Carl Jung'On Becoming a Person' by Carl Rogers'The Communist Manif–' …only kidding! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.