@GeniusGTX: I used to think the most influ...

I used to think the most influential thinkers were:

Einstein, Nietzsche, or Freud.

Then I found the father of analytical psychology, who said: “Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life, and you will call it fate.”

5 ideas from one of the greatest thinkers of the 20th century: 🧵

"When one imagines a psychologist, they may bring forth images of an old man in a lab coat injecting rats with drugs."

Carl Jung loved alchemy, studied seances & the paranormal and listened to the ramblings of schizophrenic patients

This gave Jung a unique to life around him.

This fascination with alchemy & projection would shape his later theories.

Jung regularly fantasized about a citadel that would shield him from the world.

Inside, he found his two personalities:

• The societal Jung
• The timeless self-connected to all life

He later named these the Ego and the Self…

1/ We must face our shadow to be whole.

Individuation means integrating the conscious & unconscious.

• Analyze your dreams.

• Make your implicit self explicit.

Become a way for the "cosmos to know itself."

2/ "I realized the figure was my own shadow brought into being by the little light I was carrying." - Carl Jung

Jung saw our conscious mind as a small light. Our unconscious is the vast shadow it casts.

3/ “To grow, we must shine a light on our shadow.”

Jung split with Freud in 1913.

• He then explored his own subconscious for years.
• He heard voices in his head.
• Spirits occupied his house.

Instead of freaking out, he studied it.

4/ We share the same inner building blocks.
Jung's model of the mind:

• Ego - Your sense of "I"
• Self - Your complete potential
• Personal Unconscious - Bridge to deeper layers
• Collective Unconscious - Species-wide inheritance

5. Uniting the ego & self is the key to wholeness.

We all wear a persona—a social mask. On social media, it's our highlight reel. But it often clashes with our true selves.

Jung also spoke of the shadow. It holds all we hide from.

7/ Fulfill your unique path: "There's only one way—your way.

• Do not compare.
• Look into yourself.
• All other ways deceive you.

You must walk how is yours." - Carl Jung, The Red Book

Embrace what makes you different. Become who you truly are.

Carl Jung's 7 ideas to become your true self

• Jung explored the unconscious unconventionally
• Shine light on your "shadow" to grow
• Jung's "creative illness" birthed transformative ideas
• Archetypes shape our personality
• Unite ego and self for wholeness
• Face persona and shadow to be whole
• Individuation integrates conscious and unconscious
• Follow your unique path to become yourself

That's a wrap!

Thank you for reading.

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