I have already spoken about this issue but it is the first time that I am writing...
I have read some books of Jung and heard from Caio Fábio...
What I am writing it is just the result of what I have read, heard and reflected...
Thinking about some books of Jung, Caio Fábio'comments and the Bible I would like to write the difference between individualism, individuation, individuality and individualist.
God has NOT called us to be an individualist but generous, altruist and a “giver”
He knows us personally (as an individual) because we are not part of any "mass".
He knows our names; He is our pastor and calls us individually according to John chapter 10. The prophet Isaiah says He knows the stars and their names; He knows the number of the stars and in his “financial balance” does not have any difference.
His accounting is perfect!
Everything matches!
He does not get 8 out of 10, He gets 10! -:)
Ps: 8 out of 10 was my accouting test result
He put a unique fingerprint in each one of us! We are unique in this planet.
By this point of view we have a unique individuality and personality...
That is why we are in a process of individuation in order to know us ourselves gradually.
Sometimes I am scared when I realize what it is inside of me and so I can understand what Paul says about a certain and hard fight inside of us!
Jung says about the concept of shadow. Paul explained it to us before Jung and Jesus taught us what there were in our hearts 2000 years ago and also Jeremiah said that our hearts were deceitful 630 BC!
We are in a process definitely!
We see everything partially according to Corinthians 13 and one day we will know all as we have been already known by Him!
We will receive a little and white stone with our names.
Only you! Only me! We (all) will know our names individually!
At that day the process will be over! However, (at the moment) We have an ID in Christ as individuals!
So that is why I am not supposed to preach as my pastor does I cannot speak as everybody does because we are unique people and this means exactly the process of individuation and individuality!
Of course we are influenced by people...
I am! I have been influenced by many people
But never! Never!
We should lose our identity and the way or manner to be a person with the features and characteristics that (only) we have!
Wives lose their identities due to their husbands’ behaviour...
Sons lose their identities due to the tyranny of their parents!
That is why we must respect each other, the limits of others, their cultures and mainly the way that they have for being “gente” – Spanish word. I love this word.
On the other hand, I cannot accept the individualism because this has to do with egoism and our ego; when we practice the individualism, we are the centre of all attention and so we are thinking just in us, of us, about me, and me…
“Me” is the main word for the individualism.
It means we are the king of the Universe. Our culture is the best, our, me...
...our, the best, better and the best…
The opposite is: We have been called to practice hospitality and generosity!
May God bless and help us through this temporary journey on Earth!
I am adding some texts from wikipedia about these issues.
I have separated from the whole text what it is interesting and helpful..
Carl Gustav Jung (German pronunciation: 26 July 1875 – 6 June 1961) was a Swiss psychiatrist, an influential thinker and the founder of Analytical psychology.
Jung's approach to psychology has been influential in the field of depth psychology and in countercultural movements across the globe. Jung is considered as the first modern psychologist to state that the human psyche is "by nature religious" and to explore it in depth.
He emphasized understanding the psyche through exploring the worlds of dreams, art, mythology, religion and philosophy. Although he was a theoretical psychologist and practicing clinician, much of his life's work was spent exploring other areas, including Eastern and Western philosophy, alchemy, astrology, sociology, as well as literature and the arts. His most notable ideas include the concept of psychological archetypes, the collective unconscious and synchronicity.
Jung emphasized the importance of balance and harmony. He cautioned that modern people rely too heavily on science and logic and would benefit from integrating spirituality and appreciation of unconscious realms. He considered the process of individuation necessary for a person to become whole. This is a psychological process of integrating the conscious with the unconscious while still maintaining conscious autonomy.
Individuation was the central concept of Analytical Psychology.
Jung was thirty when he sent his Studies in Word Association to Sigmund Freud in Vienna . The first conversation between Jung and Freud is reported to have lasted over 13 hours.
Six months later, the then 50 year-old Freud sent a collection of his latest published essays to Jung in Zurich, which marked the beginning of an intense correspondence and collaboration that lasted only six years and ended in May 1910. At this time Jung resigned as the chairman of the International Psychoanalytical Association, where he had been elected with Freud's support.
Today Jung's and Freud's theories have diverged, Jung being a psychiatrist and Freud being a psychologist, however they influenced each other during intellectually formative years of Jung's life, Freud being already 50 years old at their meeting and well beyond the formative years
Jungians claim that Jungian psychology individuation is a process of psychological differentiation, having for its goal the development of the individual personality. "In general, it is the process by which individual beings are formed and differentiated; in particular, it is the development of the psychological individual as a being distinct from the general, collective psychology.
Individuation is the process of transforming one’s psyche by bringing the personal and collective unconscious into conscious.
Individuation has a holistic healing effect on the person, both mentally and physically.
People who have advanced towards individuation, besides being physically and mentally healthy, they are harmonious, mature and responsible. They promote freedom and justice. They have a good understanding about the workings of human nature and the universe.
The Shadow Jung note is always the same gender as the individual. To become conscious of the Shadow takes considerable moral effort, recognising the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. Jung contended that this act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge.
The Shadow is considered to be a collection of inferiorities, undeveloped, and regressive aspects of the personality. They are primarily of an emotional nature and have a kind of autonomy, displaying an obsessive or more accurately a possessive quality. Jung describes emotion as an activity that happens to the individual rather than an activity of the individual, further reinforcing the idea of the autonomy of certain aspects of the psyche such as the Shadow.
The actions of the Shadow usually happen where adaptation is weakest, and at the same time reveal the reason for its weakness – that is a degree of inferiority and the existence of a lower level of personality. It is at this lower level, with its uncontrolled or scarcely controlled emotions that one behaves more or less like a primitive who is more or less a 'victim' of these emotions and is practically incapable of moral judgement.
Although with persistent effort the Shadow (to some extent) can be integrated with the conscious personality there are certain features which offer a great deal of resistance to control and prove almost impossible to influence. These aspects are generally associated with projections, which are not recognised as such, and their recognition is an achievement beyond the ordinary.
The Shadow represents first and foremost the personal unconscious, and its content can therefore be made conscious without too much difficulty
Collective unconscious, sometimes known as collective subconscious, is a term of analytical psychology, coined by Carl Jung. It is a part of the unconscious mind, shared by a society, a people, or all humanity
