Subject: Re: depth psychology
From: Gene (pariah1980@yahoo.com)
Date: Sun Sep 03 2000 - 07:55:22 GMT
wow, Scottie. Thanks for the info on Jung and your
experience with psychology. I'm only a rookie at all
this. I've only taken Psychology 101 and been reading
stuff like Nietzsche, the Dalai Lama, Plato, Hegel,
Kant, Machiavelli, Karl Marx, buddhist and hindu
texts, etc... I was trying to get an internship at a
local mental institution(20 hrs. a week of medical and
psychology classes w/ an extra 20 hrs. a week as a
paid intern aka psychiatric technician), but I think I
may have been disqualified for missing one of the
deadlines (other complications in my life and
responsibilities I had to tend to). I'm still waiting
on a call back from them, but don't know. Anyway, I
really don't know too much about Jung. I recently
bought a book called "The Tibetan Book of the Dead"
and it has a psychological commentary by Carl Jung in
the preface that I found very interesting. I think
that is very cool that your father was friends with
him, thanks for sharing:)
--- Scottie Bowman <rbowman@indigo.ie> wrote:
>
> I shared rooms in Trinity with a chap called
> Glyn Bennet
> who used to spend a few days each summer in the
> Swiss family
> enclave of his father's friend & colleague, Carl
> Gustav Jung.
>
> Each time, Glyn would come back electrically
> charged by
> his exposure to the kindly wit & wisdom of this
> Great Man.
> And I was similarly impressed when I watched him
> in a famous
> hour-long television interview with John Freeman
> a year or two
> before his death. He seemed such a wonderful
> mixture of boyish
> cheerfulness & timeless serenity.
>
> For the first year or so of my headshrinking
> career I fell under
> the influence of another Jungian enthusiast who
> got me to read
> about the collective unconscious, typology,
> individuation & so on.
> I even tried to make sense of his more ornate
> ideas about alchemy,
> God & stuff. Father Victor White ('God & the
> Unconscious')
> was very helpful. And, of course, the nuns were
> always delighted
> with my little lectures on the compatability of
> psychology & religion.
>
> I don't actually remember anything about
> exorcism or possession
> - but I'll bet they were in there somewhere,
> being absolutely
> his thing.
>
> Disillusionment followed when I tried to apply
> his principles
> to the understanding & aid of actual, living
> patients. Their eyes
> kept glazing over. It was only when I began
> talking dirty -
> as, by then, I'd been trained to do by those
> unpleasant Freudians
> - that they began to sit up, take notice & get a
> hold of their lives.
>
> Scottie B.
>
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