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References:
1. Carl Jung – 1957 Richard Evans interviews (complete)
2. Face To Face | Carl Gustav Jung (1959) HQ
3. Wikipedia article on Carl Jung
3. SC Chapter 3: A New Way to Look

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Freud

1. Freud mapped aberrations to understand their nature and cure.
2. Freud recognized psychosomatic illnesses and aberrations.
3. He attributed the cause to painful trauma from childhood.
4. Cure followed when patient became conscious of such traumas.
5. But it was difficult to access the memory of these traumas.
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6. Freud invented the term—unconscious mind.
7. His effort was to access the contents of the unconscious mind of the patient.
8. Hypnosis didn’t work because it made the patient very suggestible.
9. He tried to guess at the nature of the trauma by
   1. Analyzing dreams for wishful fulfillments.
   2. Analyzing slips of the tongue for hidden fixations.
   3. Analyzing jokes for topics of anxiety. 
   4. Theorizing traumas to be sexual in nature.
10. He settled on listening to the patient, which was revolutionary for his time.
    1. Freud invented talking therapy with free association.
    2. It could bring up painful memories and relieve anxieties. 
    3. He encouraged his patients to talk about everything.

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Carl Jung

1. Carl Jung explored the unconscious mind to a greater degree through self-analysis. 
2. He differed from Freud in having a mystical rather than a scientific approach to mind.
3. He was more interested in understanding psyche as a singular unified wholeness. 
4. This required a proper understanding of both conscious and unconscious minds. 
5. In this view, unconscious was more of an area of personality, which was not fully understood.
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6. Jung’s model divides psyche into consciousness, personal unconsciousness, and collective unconsciousness. 
7. Consciousness is the realm of personal awareness at the center of which sits ego. 
8. Ego provides a sense of personal distinction, a persona that the individual displays to the world. 
9. Ego is different from what the individual actually is, his self; and wants to retain its appearance.
10. Ego filters various elements of experience and selfhood into or away from conscious dimension.
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11. Personal unconsciousness is similar to Freud’s unconscious mind. 
12. It sits just below normal awareness, and interacts with it. 
13. Collective unconsciousness contains elements that are inherited. 
14. It is similar in some sense to how the biological evolution works. 
15. There are psychological structures going all the way back to the beginning of history.
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16. There are ancient archetypes that predispose a person’s cognitive tendencies. 
17. Archetypes are psychological structures that are consistent across humanity. 
18. Ego does not want to bring the material of unconsciousness up into awareness. 
19. There is animus or suppressed feminine qualities in the male. 
20. There is anima or suppressed masculine qualities in the female.
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21. The goal is to integrate all these psychological structures into the real self. 
22. We are not always who we think or hope we are. 
23. This integration requires radical self-acceptance and self-honesty. 
24. One must confront deeper and darker elements of one’s being. 
25. Only then one can have self-realizations toward a fulfilled life.

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Postulate Mechanics

1. Self is pure awareness.
2. Self experiences sensations, perceptions, concepts and knowledge.
3. Individuality arises when self identifies itself with its experience or consciousness.
4. Identification with something blocks the awareness beyond that identity.
5. A person believes that identity to represent what he is.
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6. The soul is an identity with some esoteric idea of what one is.
7. The spirit is the aliveness of a life organism.
8. The spirit is part of the motion of the universe that must maintain harmony.
9. Free will consists of motion that maintains dynamic harmony.
10. Aberrations are violations of dynamic harmony.
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11. Fundamentally aberrations are misconceptions that lead to misjudgments and fixations.
12. Aberrations generates unwanted conditions.
13. The first misconception is about one’s identity and individuality (I).
14. The second misconception is about the source of everything (God).
15. Other misconceptions then follow.

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To recover the true self one must resolve all anomalies (violations of harmony) that one encounters within oneself. Anomalies appear as aberrations. Underlying aberrations are fixations, misjudgments and misconceptions.

See BOOK II: Subject Clearing.

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