"A decision only acquires a psychological value when it is consciously carried out. Part of making a conscious decision is becoming aware of the underlying conflict. Only when this has been worked through can a genuine free decision arise." Ribi : Demons of the Inner World" p?
"...not...the author of his thoughts...seem to come from the outside...a distinction...[that] gives him the possibility of asserting himself apart from them and of trying to develop his own independent viewpoint...Only thus is a confrontation with...[them] possible" Ribi : Demons of the Inner World" p?
"The struggle with these...[the unconscious aroused and asserts itself] 'deceptions' strengthen the conscious mind vis a vis the Unconscious. Developing one's Consciousness means discriminating, making distinctions." Ribi : Demons of the Inner World" p?
"Complex[-]...the image of a certain psychic situation which is strongly accentuated emotionally and is, moreover, incompatible with the habitual attitude of consciousness." Ribi : Demons of the Inner World" p?
Complexes
- have powerful inner coherence
-their own wholeness
-relatively high degree of autonomy in that the ability and extent that conscious mind contol them is limited.
-behave like an animated foreign body in the conscious mind
-Splinter psyches
-as archetypal formations with innate personalities that are not secondary personalizatons.
Functional relationships //personal agencies
"The archetypal character behind the complex....[-] The Anima controls the libido charge,(charge of psychic energy) Ribi: Demons of the Inner World p?
"The cultural drive involves overcoming/attaining certain freedom from instinctive needs [yielding]..reinforcement of consciousness vis a vis powers of nature [yielding]...Consciousness gets space for free decisions or 'Free Will' "Ribi: Demons of the Inner World p?
Parktike[-]..a spiritual method that purifies the passionate side of the soul...[yielding] APATHEIA (passionlessness) ....[this is] and attempt at compensation...an unconscious secular trend to draw humanity out of its unconsciousness....APATHEIA [would be] a prerequisite for Spiritual Knowledge[-]..the mode of access to GNOSTIKE
Parktike ( maunal skill of the mind..aquired a primarilly moralistic and religious meaning) /
/ GNOSTIKE (the minds occupation...became a persuit of a Vision of God)
Ribi: Demons of the Inner World
"Self Realization
A total 'revaluation of values'
a turning away from the collective external values and truning toward inner images and the Self... Ultimately, one is exposed to all the demons that one bears within oneself.
After struggling 'long enough' one ceases projecting them on one's neighbous and finds ans inner calm."Ribi: Demons of the Inner World p?
"As long as ego consciousness is weak, it runs the risk of not distinguishing itself from the contents of the unconscious. When unconscious content breaks through, the conscious ego is dissolved" Ribi: Demons of the Inner World p?
The Objective Psyche [-]..The power of the numinous has always emanated from [it] and it is most definitely no identified with the conscious mind, but rather, to an almost frightening degree, independent of it. It is related to consciousness as an autonomous partner." Ribi: Demons of the Inner World p?
"The unconscious powers of [a constellated complex] are experienced as demonic because they cheat one's intentions" Ribi: Demons of the Inner World p?
"To be liberated from the possession of a content of the unconscious. Consciousness must be expanded, because its narrowness is what allowed the unconscious content to take control" Ribi: Demons of the Inner World p?
"Whenever the conscious is lacking a factor essential for its completeness, a weak spot emerges that makes it vulnerable to consellated unconscious content." Ribi: Demons of the Inner World p?
The more rational the image of god the more demonic all the neglected elements become and the more irrationally they behave" Ribi: Demons of the Inner World p?
"Destiny drags those who fight against it and carries the willing along...[it] is ambivalent"Ribi: Demons of the Inner World p?
"Complexes are normal building blocks of the psyche. The Ego complex includes all mental representations that are associated with one's own person." Ribi: Demons of the Inner World p?
"If the conscious personality resits the dangerous side of the unconsciousness, then the blessed side comes to the fore."
(natural humanity // connection with the primal living force) Ribi: Demons of the Inner World p?
"To accept everything in oneself that one is ashamed of before the eyes of the world." Ribi: Demons of the Inner World p?
" The psychotherapeutic function of religion consists in providing through its myths and symbols an expression of the wholeness and unity of the psyche." Ribi: Demons of the Inner World p?
"amplify[-]...to enrich with parallel material from our cultural history." Ribi: Demons of the Inner World p?
"Ziehn 'emotionally accentuated complexes of ideas'" Ribi: Demons of the Inner World p?
Georg Theodor Ziehen 1862 -1950 was a German neurologist and psychiatrist
" The notion of complexes clarified the dissociability of the psyche....'the hypotheses that complexes are fragmentary psyches that have become cut off from the whole can indeed be regarded as assured' C.G.Jung " Ribi: Demons of the Inner World p?
"If we were to notice how rarely in our everyday lives we consciously weigh an action in advance and then come to a conscious decision, then we would see to what a frightening extent we act unconsciously." Ribi: Demons of the Inner World p?
"The psyche's content is both conscious and unconscious at the same time...and have no clear demarcation...the psyche is a conscious-unconscious whole." Ribi: Demons of the Inner World p?
"...there is no conscious content which can with absolute certainty be said to be totally conscious." Ribi: Demons of the Inner World p?
"...there is no conscious content which is not in some respect unconscious." Ribi: Demons of the Inner World p?
"...the complexes owe their existence to an attitude of consciousness that is unable to accept their contents." Ribi: Demons of the Inner World p?
"Complex and consciousness stand in a relationship of complementarity toward each other. They complement each other mutually- and just as strongly ward each other off." Ribi: Demons of the Inner World p?
"Something that stands in antithesis to consciousness must, in order to become conscious, become distinct form the unconscious background." Ribi: Demons of the Inner World p?
"[archetypes] the consciousness-like state of unconscious content...the complexes are an intermediate form [of archetypes]...[complexes]..convey... these contents out of the unconsciousness into the consciousness." Ribi: Demons of the Inner World p?
"As fragmentary personalities. complexes have... a certain charge of psychic energy (libido) which can sometimes be greater than that available to consciousness." Ribi: Demons of the Inner World p?
"Consciousness can only expand and develop lastingly when it takes a morally responsible position toward the contents coming in from the unconscious and makes an effort to assimilate them." Rib: Demons of the Inner World" p?
"So long as we do not develop our consciousness of the darkness in us in the same proportions [as the light and good in us], that darkness will nullify our best efforts." Rib: Demons of the Inner World" p?
"Consciousness can only expand and develop lastingly when it takes a morally responsible position toward the contents coming in from the unconscious and makes an effort to assimilate them." Rib: Demons of the Inner World" p?
"...the conscious mind must bring together two disparate ways of seeing the world..[1]the conscious and rational ...[2]the entirely different one in which the laws of the Collective Unconscious hold sway" Rib: Demons of the Inner World" p?
"Before we can integrate something unconscious, we must distinguish ourselves from it" Rib: Demons of the Inner World" p?
"We are so identified with our rationality that we dismiss everything irrational as nonexistent...the irrational side is relegated to the unconscious...can lead to demonification of the unconscious..[...neurotic splintering of the psyche]. Rib: Demons of the Inner World" p?
"We are so identified with our rationality that we dismiss everything irrational as nonexistent...the irrational side is relegated to the unconscious...can lead to demonification of the unconscious..[...neurotic splintering of the psyche]. Rib: Demons of the Inner World" p?
"The more one sidedly the ego idntifies with consciousness as the whole of psyche, the stranger the unconscious becomes[---->]...Deprives the Unconscious of its functions of a healthy compensator and spiritual guide." Ribi: Demons of the Inner World p?
"...careful consideration for the other, the alien, the unfamiliar, the unexpected and the antithetical [antithesis- opposition-contrast] quality of anything...but not being possessed by it." Ribi: Demons of the Inner World p?
"Spirit[-]...in its basic meaning it has something to do with affects...in this sense the spirit is a representation of the personified affect [] every affect has the tendency to become an autonomous complex." Ribi: Demons of the Inner World" Ribi: Demons of the Inner World p?
"Abaissement du niveau mental...is a relaxed state where attention and concetration are eased, allowing inhibitions to be loosened[--->]...unconscious content." Ribi: Demons of the Inner World p?
" Attitudes and mental dispositions trigger affects" Ribi: Demons of the Inner World" p?
"The living idea is one that can call forth an emotion. It can posses the power to shape situations and lives...[the living idea's] Unconscious foundation[-]...they always group themselves according to the same basic patterns..['archetypal ideas'] Ribi: Demons of the Inner World" p?
"Zeitgeist[-]...'the spirit of the times'...an unconscious current that can determine the cast of mind of an entire civilization or epoch." Ribi: Demons of the Inner World" p?
"The spirit as living idea (Archetypal Idea, Zeitgeist) like the complex, exhibits a strong tendency toward autonomy." Ribi: Demons of the Inner World" p?
"Constellated content...those psychic potentialities that, within the unconscious, free themselves from its pervasive continuity and approach the threshold of consciousness." Ribi: Demons of the Inner World" p?
"Emotions are responsible for our being possessed by ideas." Ribi: Demons of the Inner World" p?
"As a rule an emotion will subside after a short time. But ideas make sure that in the process of adjusting to the world around us, new emotions continuously come up" Ribi: Demons of the Inner World p?
"We can, gradually become conscious of [complexes;ideas..]the various spirits so that we may integrate them into the economy of the over arching whole....prudent and morally responsible consciousness and introspection"" Ribi: Demons of the Inner World p?
"...unconscious identification with a content. The separating out of contents is the key to the development and expansion of consciousness." Ribi: Demons of the Inner World p?
"The more conscious we become the smaller that which we refer to as our ego becomes...In the Unconscious state, we are still embedded, to a great degree in a non-differentiated connectedness with our surroundings and our fellow men. Through the torment of disappointed expectations, our bloated ego withers. To the extent it does, it is able to withdraw from the spirit influences of this embeddedness and find itself." Ribi: Demons of the Inner World P ?
"Since a complex is only conditionally linked to a particular person, it can happen that it begins to look for a 'new house'." Ribi : Demons of the Inner World P?
"...A complex that has been overcome not only can be integrated, but can go on to have a fruitful effect on our lives." Ribi : Demons of the Inner World p.?
"If consciousness understands the [unconscious] content it has been brought, and takes the proper approach to it, then it becomes helpful." Ribi : Demons of the Inner World p.?
"Everything that is accompanied by numinous feelings derives from the Collective Unconscious." Ribi : Demons of the Inner World p.?
"Every integrated complex expands the personality through new capabilities." Ribi : Demons of the Inner World p.?
"Complexes are living elements of the psyche. The psyche integrates a complex by including it in the frame work of the personality in a way that is not antithetical to the personality. a complex cannot be dissolved because there is always an archetype behind it." Ribi : Demons of the Inner World p.?
"Complexes represent a part of the personality. Integration consists in bringing different parts into firm relationship with one another" Ribi: Demons of the Inner World p?
"In 'body language' psychological processes acquire a physical expression: the binding factor is the emotions, which indicated unconscious events through physical accompaniments...Such emotional reactions appear mainly through the action of the autonomic nervous system, Which is not under the influence of consciousness." Ribi: Demons of the Inner World p?
"We do not experience the object or the environment as it is, but rather as it typically appears to us. Its mode of appearance is transformed into a typical form by the archetype that the object [or environment] constellates. This transformation also calls up emotions that that are connected with the object [or environment]." Ribi: Demons of the Inner World p?
"Projections are always connected with emotions because they constitute a deficient adjustment to reality." Ribi: Demons of the Inner World p?
"When a new content is consellated, it may correspond to something having to come to life in the unconscious." Ribi: Demons of the Inner World p?
"Depression has the function of expanding consciousness by adding[...]a new content from the unconscious." Ribi: Demons of the Inner World p?
"in men, they manifest mostly as hostile moods, in women as unfeeling opinionatedness and haggling. The level of consciousness is subject to fluctuation. Fatigue, drugs, and emotions cause an abaissement du niveau mental that enables contents from the unconscious to intrude and dominate" Ribi: Demons of the Inner World p?
"...creativity is bound up with suffering and privation, because one no longer belongs to oneself...One feels oneself cast out into 'the midst of the sea' closed by the waters 'even to the soul'. One has gone 'down to the bottoms of the mountains' 'the earth with her bars is' about us 'forever'. Only when...the transformation [has] been accomplished that brings readiness for creative action." Ribi: Demons of the Inner World p?
"Particular behavior activates a particular archetypal image out of the array that the archetype presents...
[Archetypal conceptions (lie) between individual concrete experiences.........the active element is the complex...which is constituted by both Archetypal conceptions and the individual concrete experiences]
Ribi: Demons of the Inner World p?
"Only a steadfast consciousness anchored in reality can withstand the assault of these powers from the unconscious" Ribi: Demons of the Inner World p?
"Every mixture of consciousness with unconscious contents leads to a dissolution of the ego personality and a sense of exaggerated self-importance owing to the force arising from the unconscious." Ribi: Demons of the Inner World p?
"A man experiences the animus from the outside, a woman from the inside. He experiences the Anima from the inside, she from the outside. " Ribi: Demons of the Inner World p?
"...the anima has the function in a man of making a connection to the unconscious...as a counterbalance to the persona, the external social adjustment." Ribi: Demons of the Inner World p?
"The woman's animus represents her connection with spirit, which counter balances her closeness to nature" Ribi: Demons of the Inner World p?
"Where archetypes are in play , it is not a matter of 'overcoming' something; rather, what is needed is to understand the essence of the contents and integrate them." Ribi: Demons of the Inner World p?
"...it is the collective archetypal problems that actually shape a life in its uniqueness" Ribi: Demons of the Inner World p?
"The psyche has a historical character...it receives its content only at the beginning of the individual lifetime, there are certain innate potentialities that play a great part in the processing of its experience" Ribi: Demons of the Inner World p111
"...the unconscious is not just ignorance or unknowing, even though it is the not-known." Ribi: Demons of the Inner World p113
"Only what [primordial man] grasps becomes the subject of his interest and attention (libido). Anything that falls even slightly outside this beam is relegated to the unconscious." Ribi: Demons of the Inner World p114
"Primordial consciousness...the flow of events is a sequence of infinitely many moments comprised of here and now with no connection, the unitary consciousness or subject, that might entertain this interrelatedness is absent." Ribi: Demons of the Inner World p114-115
"Behaving purposively [-]whether members of a [primordially] primitive tribe or infants, instincts provide them with the basis for maintaining their lives." Ribi: Demons of the Inner World p114
Instinctive // consciousness of carrying out
Purposive Action // consciousness of the reasons for carrying it out
"In hindsight we are seldom at a loss for reasons for our actions. At least we are certain by then that we are conscious of our motives...that we made a free decision...chose between alternatives...ingage in reasonings concerning pros and cons of the various alternative-and yet our unconsciousness has long since mad the decision...."Ribi: Demons of the Inner World p115
"What we are unconscious of we do with the firm conviction of not doing it" Ribi: Demons of the Inner World p 115
"...'The unconscious is not a nothing, an absence of something, but rather it is the original way of funcitioning' C.G.Jung "Ribi: Demons of the Inner World p 115
"Instincts[-]...all the inate behavior patterns
Archeytpes[-]...all the innate potential ways of apprehending things....
The unconscious contains both." Ribi: Demons of the Inner World p 115
"...man is embedded in an all embracing continuum [cosmic man] that experiences its [his] psyche in the world around him...feels part of all creation...not yet separated from it [animistic] Ribi: Demons of the Inner World p 116
"A relationship cannot exist where there is an identity...Real relationships can only evolve between two separated persons. In-so-far as we live in an archaic identity, we live in the things and the persons around us. But not in a relationship with them. They follow our will or we follow theirs. There exists a magic dependence or compulsions that the objects or persons exert." Ribi: Demons of the Inner World p 117
" An Abaissement du niveau mental accompanies every emotion, opening the way to the intrusion of unconscious contents that may take possession of consciousness." Ribi: Demons of the Inner World p114
"At this [second] stage [of development] man realizes that the objects in his environment are laden with the contents of his psyche...[at] this stage...is it possible to speak of projection...Thence arises the distinction between subject and object." Ribi: Demons of the Inner World p114
"Only when the all-pervading continuum of the archaic unity has been broken up is there a subject...the innocence of the archaic identity [to which] we cannot go back." Ribi: Demons of the Inner World p114
"The moment consciousness carries out a moral judgement excluding particular contents, it begins to be subject to...influences...repressed content...set up resistance to consciousness by engaging in...machinations." Ribi: Demons of the Inner World p114
"The moment consciousness carries out a moral judgement excluding particular contents, it begins to be subject to...influences...repressed content...set up resistance to consciousness by engaging in...machinations." Ribi: Demons of the Inner World p124
" the discrimination of moral judgement is part of the evolution of consciousness" Ribi; Demons of the Inner World p124
"...the undu mundus ...the objectivity of the psyche...it...ascribes to both the psyche and its [complexes] their own reality." Ribi: Demons of the Inner World p126
"...unus mundus[-]..i.in which the split between psyche and physis is resolved." Ribi: Demons of the Inner World p126
"Beyond the conscious level of experience psyche and physis rest on common psyche-like (psychoid) stratum." Ribi: Demons of the Inner World p126
"Consciousness and the unconscious are complementary the unconscious completes the conscious through contents that the latter lacks for its wholeness." Ribi: Demons of the Inner World p127
"Consciousness and will have no influence over the collective unconsciousness-other than through very specific means specially suited to relating with it."Ribi: Demons of the Inner World p126
"Every psychic content has two aspects: an irrational, pictorial one and a rational mental one." Ribi: Demons of the Inner World p140
"Dreams are...images...working with these is the first step on the path toward integrating the unconscious content. Through them the emotion is objectified...drawn forth from the inner space of the psyche." Ribi: Demons of the Inner World p140
"One cannot work with something one is identified with. (the emotion as such)" Ribi: Demons of the Inner World p140
"The emotion continues to be obsessive for as long as one has not distinguished oneself from it." Ribi: Demons of the Inner World p126
"Every psychic content has two aspects: an irrational, pictorial one and a rational, mental one." Ribi: Demons of the Inner World p 140
"Dreams are...images...working with these is the first step on the path toward integrating the unconscious content. Through them the emotion is objectified...drawn froth from the inner space of the psyche." Ribi: Demons of the Inner World p 140
"One cannot work with something one is identified with . (the emotion as such)" Ribi: Demons of the Inner World p 140
"The emotion continues to be obsessive for as long as one has not distinguished oneself from it." Ribi: Demons of the Inner World p 140
"As individual tendencies cross the threshold of consciousness they are represented in consciousness and can be selected by consciousness as suitable for total functioning. Whatever does not fit is...repressed... into unconsciousness...Until, through further repressions of related material, it becomes sufficiently charged...to penetrate into consciousness as a disturbance." Ribi: Demons of the Inner World p 143
"the introverted intuition as a primary function...enables them to structure perceptions that are sometimes quite remote from the tangible level of reality." Ribi: Demons of the Inner World p 146
"The Creative complex is an unconscious content...If consciousness makes no effort to integrate it, but shuns it instead, then it turns destructive." Ribi: Demons of the Inner World p 149
"[Complexes] tendency to dissociate the personality and to lead an independent life within the psyche is balanced by the mysterium coniuctionis, the mystery of the union of opposites." Ribi: Demons of the Inner World p 152
"With the Self as its starting point, this Eros aims at bringing the disparate fragments of the psyche into an ordered and cohesive whole...[which is] logically impossible and...is a mystery of the psyche...[where] all opposites are related to each other, subsumed by a larger unity...[yielding the individuation process]" Ribi: Demons of the Inner World p 152
"Consciousness frees itself from the distinction between outside and inside, subject and object. " Ribi: Demons of the Inner World p 161
"Active imagination,a technique in which, in the waking state, consciousness permits unconscious contents to come into it and treats them as the reality...In that the unconscious is allowed...a vantage point outside the ego arises from which the ego can be objectively seen." Ribi: Demons of the Inner World p 161
"Because we are still caught up in our archaic identity with matter, we are unable to become aware of it. We can, however, become unconscious of it if we give heed to how we deal with matter and how it behaves toward us. As long as we presume it to be in animate, we notice nothing. [i.e. chemical spills, nuke accidents...] We have to take the question of their meaning much more seriously." Ribi: Demons of the Inner World p 165
" A deeper analysis, which takes into account context as well as causes, must inevitably consider mans's fundamental attitude toward the spirit in matter." Ribi: Demons of the Inner World p 165
"...if we follow the behavior of eternal material things with attention, they will become for us a mirror of what is taking place within us." Ribi: Demons of the Inner World p 168
"...ceases merely to seek the causes and begins to look for the meaning, then seemingly lifeless things begin to speak..."Ribi: Demons of the Inner World p 168
"When we meet with something genuine in the sphere of the irrational, a numinious awe arises." Ribi: Demons of the Inner World p 172
"The Archetype is a super powerful psychic reality, which can manifest itself in a variety of ways. It belongs to the collective Unconsciousness and is therefore experienced outside the ego." Ribi: Demons of the Inner World p 174
" the objective psyche....'Objective' means independent of the will of the conscious personality." Ribi: Demons of the Inner World p 174
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