BY LOLA HOFFMANN
Archetype The concept derives from the repeated observation that both the myths and the fairy tales of world literature contain certain motifs that are told whenever and wherever it may be. For the same reasons we find ourselves in fantasies, dreams, delusions and delusions of contemporary individuals. These typical images and relationships, are described as archetypal representations. The more obvious are the more often they are accompanied by emotions very much alive. Are impressive, influential, overwhelming, coming from the archetype itself is not clear, is a prior and seemed unaware that belong to the inherited structure, which is implicit in the psyche. Therefore can manifest as spontaneous phenomenon, wherever whatever.
Jung says: "I often encounter the misconception that the archetypes are determined by their content or whether they correspond to a kind of unconscious representations. That's why I emphasize again, that archetypes are not determined by its content but only formally and ultimately only a very unconditional. Determined by its content, would be a proto-image, which is only verifiable when it is conscious and therefore filled with the material of conscious experience. Its shape is comparable to the system axis of a crystal, which pre structured, so to speak, the formation of crystals in the mother liquor without holding the same, a life material. The latter appears only in the way ions flow into first and then the molecules.
The archetype is an empty element itself, formal, is not nothing but a pre facultas formanti , a possibility given a priori as representative.
representations are not inherited, inherited forms that correspond exactly to the instincts, these also, some only formally. Neither the existence of archetypes or instincts, can be tested while they may not appear exact. In another work he says: It seems likely that the very essence of the archetypes can not be grasped by consciousness, so it would be important, why the designate as psicolidia. Some more words about the ascension of the spirit, Novalis says: Do not know the depths of our spirit goes inside the mysterious way. "
individuation process aiming at a higher order of life. According to tradition is required to "go into the wilderness" to find your way. This trip to the desert, is a state of mind development and transit. Looked at from the psychological point of view, is a state of introspection. One way in, which is the more dangerous the more sudden and stormy is the process. The magic of the desert survival is threatened by insecurity weakness, despair, depression. It is what St. John of the Cross calls: The dark night of the soul. It is a life stage in which all energy production seems to be suspended. During this state also occur psychotic episodes. For example, in some cultures, the Shaman
madness. Ecstasy means being out of himself. When the center of consciousness has come out of the current framework of the here and now, we're out of us, in another frame of reference. Shaman's ability to enter into ecstasy makes him a master of the mystical geography of the spiritual world, ie the unconscious. He has an intimate knowledge of these mysterious regions of spirit, which can come and go at will.
shamanic cultures divide the geography of the spiritual world into three layers: The Flat Earth, the celestial world above and the underworld, below. The triple spiritual universe, is connected to the center of the world.
who knows this center has the ability to move voluntarily from one plane to another reality. The earth's crust, a symbol of ego and his frame of reference is the current reality, is life as we experience in our normal waking state, in reality, temporary space. The celestial world as well as the underworld, symbolizes different modes of realities or different mental states, in which the individual has experience away from the ego and the unconscious. The invitation to enter into the path of the Shaman, usually comes through an illness or a severe psychological crisis that resembles death. This is followed by a rebirth. As a result, the personality of the shaman emerges greatly expanded, more conscious, directly connected to the spirit world. Any person in which individuation occurs, has some of the shamanic experience. The disease is inevitable in such people. Its growth is done through a process of death and resurrection, forcing them to find their own unique personality. All identification of this layer evolution, with the deity, can lead to insanity. The individual experiences an unbearable deprivation and believes he can invest his impotent I
empirical power of the Creator Himself. The proper attitude of the ego in such circumstances is given to the experience of the Nazarene in the desert. Continued
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( The origin of this lucid presentation on the process of individuation,
is a transcript of a tape recording from Lola and
personally delivered by it Francisco Garcia Huidobro )
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