My dreams before I went involved new directions, new world views, and certainly the conference stimulated some thinking in that direction.
Thursday, August 21, 2008
New perspectives
We have just spent four days in Brattleboro, Vermont at the Assissi Institute. It was different from what I am used to. In my work here in Hartford, I am focusing on what the Self says to me via my dreams. The goal is to be more in touch with what the Self (God) wants than what the ego needs. The conference spent quite a bit of time on field theory, orients, and focusing on the meaning of the images we get. I certainly agree that keeping as close to the image as possible is important rather than going directly to interpretation. However, I didn't feel Jung much except in Pamela Donleavy's presentation. There were references to physics, biology and the like, but I wasn't sure how that related to psyche. I believe other fields complement psychology but I don't know that we have to ground ourselves in physics or biology to attend to the task that we have as psychologists. I have lots to think about and assimilate as I try to find where I stand in relation to all that I know.
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Is psyche not connected to body? What do you see as "the task as psychologists"? Can you say more about these things?
Psyche certainly does communicate with us through our body sensations as well as through our dreams and images, etc. My sense of the task for psychologists is to study and understand human behavior through the influences and determinants which effect us.
Psyche is a term which describes the many facets of our experiences which come to us through our bodies, our images, our dreams, our experiences. Sometimes I can have an experience that confirms that something has been touched which feels familiar: what Jung calls a complex.
I have a sense of psyche as I think of it, but I'm not sure I truly comprehend it a la Jung. I still feel confused when I read the sentence you wrote about "references to physics, biology, etc." I'll keep on reading, though, and see if it becomes more fluid for me one of these days. I believe my brain does have endless capacity for plasticity, it just doesn't seem able to experience the truth of that these days :-).
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