how do you integrate the unconscious?
how to integrate the part that has been slowly ruining your reality.
most of society are in a constant war with their inner life.
they override it, analyse it, medicate it, and distract themselves from it.
and when something dark or strange happens…
maybe a recurring dream, an irrational fear, a pattern you can’t seem to break…
we either pathologise it or ignore it entirely.
many people don’t realise this but…
the unconscious isn’t a faulty state.
it’s the larger part of you, and it has its own intelligence deeply rooted in itself.
the thing with society is…
they believe that they can magically “erase it”.
or magically bring it into consciousness…
or just ignore it and things will turn out fine.
without realising that it operates through so much deeper psychological patterns.
here’s the thing about unconscious material…
it doesn’t go away because you ignore it. it goes sideways.
whatever complexes you don’t face will always show up as a reaction that will show up in your day-to-day life.
a few weeks ago i’ve went through something similar.
i’ve done a few things that my gf didn’t really like.
and the weird thing about it?
i had no explanation for them.
i had no clue why i did these things. i had no clue what my mission was.
it felt like an inner guidance guided me to this destructive behaviour.
until i realised that the only reason i did these things all linked back to my unconscious.
the grief you haven’t processed becomes a numbness you can’t explain.
the part of yourself you’ve never examined runs your relationships without your permission.
jung introduced a specific theory about depression that, in a way, still feels radical.
in psychogenic depression the direction of causality is reversed from what we assume.
you’re not depressed and therefore experiencing a dark inner world.
you’re experiencing a dark inner world and therefore depressed.
the unconscious has begun withdrawing energy from the outer world because it needs that energy for something else.
the depression is simultaneously a withdrawal and an accumulation.
and something is building below.
this is why the second half of life tends to destroy people in ways the first half doesn’t.
your first half of life is about building your ego, identity, career, relationships, the structures a life needs.
and the second half asks something different.
the ego has been built.
and now it needs to relate to something larger than itself.
and if you haven’t developed any relationship with your inner life, that transition is brutal.
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