Are Psychological Types Inherited or Learned?

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“There is, finally, a third group, and here it is hard to say whether the motivation comes chiefly from within or without. This group is the most numerous and includes the less differentiated normal man” (Jung, 1971. Jung, C. G. (1971). Psychological types. In W. McGuire (Ed.) The collected works of C. G. Jung (Vol. 6), Bollingen Series XX. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.)

Attitudes signifies expectation, and expectation always operates selectively and with a sense of direction.(Psychological Types by C G Jung : Para 688, Page 415)

When a function habitually predominates, a typical attitude is produced. According to the nature of the differentiated function, there will be constellations of contents that create a corresponding attitude.(Psychological Types by C G Jung : Para 691, Page 417)

Only a limited number of contents can be held in the conscious field at the same time, and of these only a few…

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Carl Jung, Plotinus, Greek Myth, Depth Psychology

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Carl Jung, Plotinus, Greek Myth, Depth Psychology

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In attempting to understand Dr. Jung’s work and the findings of Depth Psychology it is important to recognize as many of the Ancients did the Psychological aspects of the Gods and Goddesses:

Many times it has happened: Lifted out of the body into myself; becoming external to all other things and self-encentered; beholding a marvelous beauty; then, more than ever, assured of community with the loftiest order; enacting the noblest life, acquiring identity with the divine; stationing within It by having attained that activity; poised above whatsoever within the Intellectual is less than the Supreme: yet, there comes the moment of descent from intellection to reasoning, and after that sojourn in the divine, I ask myself how it happens that I can now be descending, and how did the soul ever enter into my body, the soul which, even within the body, is the high thing it has shown itself…

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This is the golden fabric in which the shadow of God lives

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This is the golden fabric in which the shadow of God lives

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Carl Jung’s Red Book Illustration 115 with a Caption that says: “This is the golden fabric in which the shadow of God lives.”

“One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.” Here, the encounter with the shadow within psychic processes – a drawing from the “Red Book.” ~Carl Jung; (Wehr, 1989: 55).

I hear the roaring of the morning wind, which comes over the mountains. The night is overcome, when all my life was subject to eternal confusion and stretched out between the poles of fire.

My soul speaks to me in a bright voice: “The door should be lifted off its hinges to provide a free passage between here and there, between yes and no, between above and below, between left and right. Airy passages should be built between all opposed
things, light smooth streets should lead from one pole to…

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Some Carl Jung Quotations XLVII [RED BOOK]

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Some Carl Jung Quotations XLVII [RED BOOK]

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Man must recognize his complicity in the act of evil. ~Carl Jung, The Red Book, LN 291.

You begin to have a presentiment of the whole when you embrace your opposite principle, since the whole belongs to both principles, which grow from one root. ~Carl Jung, The Red Book, LN 248

No one has my God, but my God has everyone. ~Carl Jung, The Red Book, Page 245.

If no outer adventure happens to you, then no inner in adventure happens to you either. ~Carl Jung, The Red Book, Page 263.

Your voice is too weak for those raging to be able to hear. Thus do not speak and do not show the God, but sit in a solitary place and sing incantations in the ancient manner. ~Carl Jung, The Red Book, Page 284.

The soul demands your folly; not your wisdom. ~Carl Jung, The Red Book, Page 264.

Thus…

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The Hero must fall for the sake of our Redemption

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The Hero must fall for the sake of our Redemption

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We think that there is singleness within us, and communality outside us. Outside of us is the communal in relation to the external, while singleness refers to us. We are single if we are in ourselves, but communal in relation to what is outside us. But if we are outside of ourselves, then we are single and selfish in the communal. Our self suffers privation if we are outside ourselves, and thus it satisfies its needs with communality Consequently; communality is distorted into singleness.

If we are in ourselves, we fulfill the need of the self we prosper, and through this we become aware of the needs of the communal and can fulfill them. If we set a God outside of ourselves, he tears us loose from the self since the God is more powerful than we are. Our self falls into privation. But if the God moves into the…

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Carl Jung on the need the Dead Souls have for the Living.

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