GOD people talking about being introverts with a surface level myers-briggs understanding of introversion and now I’m nostalgic for Carl Jung.
I genuinely feel deep affection for Carl Jung, since my mother was a huge fan and had a Collective Consciousness Raising Circle that used to meet when I was a toddler and, on further reflection, may have actually been their weed ring. My parents were new age energyworkers of many affiliations! This is my background radiation!
Because of that it truly bothers me that all people take away is “ohh I’m an INTROVERT I should be excused from having manners”, and not the psychic battles with energy vampires, the Collective Unconscious, the anima —-
You’re telling me you’re an introvert and you clearly haven’t even Confronted the Shadow!!! What are you DOING with your elaborate publicly admitted neuroses?? You are not supposed to cling to them as your identity. Jung said NOT to make a sadsona! he said to make a HEROsona. He was very clear. You are SUPPOSED to be deliberately unblocking the neuroses in a series of battles to release the knots of your libido, so the stream can flow. There are energy vampires to battle, Jungian Archetype Wise Old Men to seek, syzygy to spell, Anima/Animus to snog -
- hang on post cancelled.
nobody EVER talks about what the hell the Anima and Animus are supposed to be in light of our current understandings of gender, possibly because Jung is considered a bit bonkers and outdated, but now I want to know. Technically I think True Introverts are supposed to make out with their Anima/Animus to restore their energy crystals. Who ARE they these days??? What are their PRONOUNS. Do enbies have binary ones? Do you know you’re trans if yours is the same as your birth gender. I’m personally on good terms with my Anim, which I always credited with why my energies tend to be aligned with the collective posting unconscious, but WHAT IF —
