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The Living Force
Home perhaps evokes a deep sense of relatedness - it is a place where we feel we truly belong. I am reading the Jungian analyst Mary-Louise von Franz's book "Projection and Recollection in Jungian Psychology" where this theme of genuine relatedness is mentioned. In Work terms what we call integration of the many little i's is called the process of individuation in Jungian terms. Keeping that relation in mind
[quote author=MLVF]
The first stage shows the process of the inner unification of the personality in the individuation process. The second stage, however, has reference to a special process that always accompanies individuation in a single person: namely the development of relatedness to certain fellow human beings and to mankind as a whole, a relatedness that proceeds not from the ego but from a transcendental inner center, the Self.
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One might describe this as the social function of the Self. Each person gathers around him his own "soul family", a group of people not created by accident or by mere egoistic motivation but rather through a deeper, more essential spiritual interest or concern: reciprocal individuation. Whereas relations based merely on projection are characterized by fascination and magical dependence, this kind of relationship, by way of the Self, has something strictly objective, strangely transpersonal about it. It gives rise to a feeling of immediate, timeless "being together".
The usual bond of feeling, says Jung elsewhere, always contains projections that have to be withdrawn if one has to attain to oneself and to objectivity. "Objective cognition lies hidden behind the attraction of the emotional relationship; it seems to be the central secret." In this world created by the Self we meet all those many to whom we belong, whose hearts we touch; here "there is no distance but immediate presence."
There exists no individuation process in any one individual that does not at the same time produce this relatedness to one's fellowmen.
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In summary, as one starts to integrate one's true self by fusing together the small i's and thus becoming whole, he/she also finds a place in a bigger whole - an organically united soul community. Such a community could be called "home" - osit.
[quote author=MLVF]
The first stage shows the process of the inner unification of the personality in the individuation process. The second stage, however, has reference to a special process that always accompanies individuation in a single person: namely the development of relatedness to certain fellow human beings and to mankind as a whole, a relatedness that proceeds not from the ego but from a transcendental inner center, the Self.
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One might describe this as the social function of the Self. Each person gathers around him his own "soul family", a group of people not created by accident or by mere egoistic motivation but rather through a deeper, more essential spiritual interest or concern: reciprocal individuation. Whereas relations based merely on projection are characterized by fascination and magical dependence, this kind of relationship, by way of the Self, has something strictly objective, strangely transpersonal about it. It gives rise to a feeling of immediate, timeless "being together".
The usual bond of feeling, says Jung elsewhere, always contains projections that have to be withdrawn if one has to attain to oneself and to objectivity. "Objective cognition lies hidden behind the attraction of the emotional relationship; it seems to be the central secret." In this world created by the Self we meet all those many to whom we belong, whose hearts we touch; here "there is no distance but immediate presence."
There exists no individuation process in any one individual that does not at the same time produce this relatedness to one's fellowmen.
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In summary, as one starts to integrate one's true self by fusing together the small i's and thus becoming whole, he/she also finds a place in a bigger whole - an organically united soul community. Such a community could be called "home" - osit.
