@robertdabob8939

6 months ago

Jung's work and the archetypes go well beyond such dualistic views, liminality being a well known sign of the trickster archetype active in the collective unconscious and a sign of collapse and rebirth. Periods marked by widespread unconsciousness and, as you say, meaninglessness - ours has long been labelled the age of narcissism. Jung also gave us the context and the tools required to be able to adapt to large scale change and become more conscious and the more who do the work the less destructive this period will be. "Seems to me our best chance to be spared a collective catastrophe resides in the possibility that enough people will have individual conscious encounters with the greater personality, and thereby will contribute to the process of immunizing the body social against a mass atheistic inflation. If each individual can work towards that end by diligently assimilating his projections and seeking his own unique individual encounter, then he will contribute to that immunizing process. To the extent that it can take place in the arena of the individual psyche it will not have to take place in that dreadful arena of the collective psyche." - Edward Edinger, Encounters With the Greater Personality The widespread alienation and hostility manifested among the left and so called wokism can be seen as a collective form of the drive we see among many individuals who, due to dissociations and suffering from being alienated from their own culture/themselves and aspects of their identity, take part in self destructive behavior. So the left here are a catalyst for the liminality and omen of the de-structuring period we're entering. They want to see that happen yet propose nothing in it's place - a Thanatos drive. The fragmented state of alienation and suffering returns to wholeness in death.

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