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Academy of Ideas This is a serious question. Is labelling oneself as a scapegoat equivalent with projecting to the bully? I feel like I have been mistreated by my parents my whole life. I believe my father is an NPD and my mom a combination of borderline and NPD. No matter how much I try I always get the blame, always looked upon in such a bad light,and I’m never enough. I have many neurotic tendencies that I’m trying to overcome and I’m scared if I’m ignorant to the fact that I’m actually projecting just like they often do to me.
Do you have some sort of giant reading list somewhere. A reading list centered around Psychology/philosophy. Seams like there are so many different places to start.
@@andrewspain9276 thats not the point. The point of individuasation is not to destroy the shadow, but to embrace it. Re watch this, you failed to understand the point.
This. Is. The. Work. I am so encouraged and moved and terribly challenged by your videos. Thank you and please keep doing it! But man, we need help... I felt like I knew all “this stuff” pretty well. Then I encountered myself in a controlled psychedelic experience and *jeeeeeeesus*, man - the shadow is *real*. And it’s holy and horrible and... terribly challenging as I said above. I just.... It’s such challenging, brave work to confront this part of one’s self. And we need help learning how to engage these ideas experientially. But I want to say, if it weren’t for exposure to Jung and other mystic-ish Doaist-ish conversations, I wouldn’t have fared half as well as I did when I confronted this side of me. It was in large part your videos that provide my encounter with Jung, who, in turn, provides my encounter with a kind of intelligent mythopoetic mysticism, which in turn provides all my connection to the goddam universe! So, yea, thanks for the videos. They really mattered to me.
I dont know if the video said this, I didnt watch it all through but fight the "bad" side with the good side literally. With patience, confidence, integrity, acceptance and respect. Only then do you beat it. And rememeber all is one. Theres no "devil" and "god" but rather a duo that creates the perfect novelty. Yin and yang
@@andrewspain9276 Your urban text is missing letters. Watch for real words and its structure. Some people have forgotten to correctly type... I see it soo many times on UA-cam. I don't want to be rude but project yourself into your words .... together with learned behavior you can be progressively great. Have a good day..
Always take higher doses. Sooner or later you'll fall off the edge and see that god is a demon. Of course from then on you'll suffer horribly. God is a jealous god. AKA the Demiurge. This is the reality of material existence. Just enough pleasure to make you think you're about to get free of the suffering. The ultimate drug of addiction.
I hope it goes well for you, I have a similar background and it’s not easy. I don’t nessecarly think it’s wrong to point out a cause to one’s problem, the problem is when we strongly identify with our own mind, when we defend our ego and take sides of the same coin. The cause and affects in any given situation are infinite and perhaps your father acted that way because he too experienced abandonment.
Ever since I became conscious of my shadow, I’ve have come to realize why is it that I’ve committed certain acts before. Looking back into my mind, I’ve gotten flashback of things I’ve done which I now see is part my shadow self. I love it ! Without the knowledge this past freethinkers I would not discover this. I appreciate your content. Salute 🙏🏼
Goya was such a great paintor. Great to see you have used him here it really goes very well with the theme of the Jungian shadow (specially his dark paintings)
Here is a Junq's quote that summarizes idividual who discovers himself : " The acceptance of oneself is the essence of the whole moral problem and the epitome of a whole outlook on life. That i feed the hungry, that i forgive an insult, that i love my enemy - all these are undoubtedly great virtues. But what if i should discover that the least among them all, the poorest of all the beggars, the most impudent of all the offenders, the very enemy himself-that these are WITHIN ME, and that i myself stand in the need of the alms of my own kindness - that I MYSELF AM THE ENEMY who must be loved - what then?
Man some powerful words , I’m fairly new to this and Jung had an incredible insight on life . We must study more of the human psyche for we know far too little . “ we are the origins of all coming evil “
@@Thesp88 Each should study their own psyche. By understanding yourself you understand others. No one can understand anyone for them. This is a path all have to take for the world to chance. Jung was truly enlightened. His work has helped me tremendously.
Your videos on Jung is what I share with my friends as an intoduction to Jung. It's really important as you explain concepts very fluidly in an easy to understand way. Thank you for your work.
I feel this lecture needs to be heard by all especially during these troubling times where panic and uncertainty is breeding hate and animosity within ourselves. How do you get the masses to think for themselves though rather then being led by those who only desire to cause division amongst our brothers.
5:31 Glad this was mentioned. Sometimes it's projection or another defense mechanism, and sometimes the target individual or group is blameworthy. We need to be highly rational, brutally honest and call a spade a spade when necessary.
The best beginning to this process is to accept that you are capable of being an utter arsehole and a savage, if pushed correctly. This makes accepting others easier as you have allowed yourself to see your own darkness and therefore easier to see others as complete beings - as flawed and awful as we are
Life is a battle and so often people put up defence mechanisms try and not fight that battle. This is a really fascinating topic, thanks so much for sharing it!
Your explanation of Jung is the only proper one , I found in youtube till this date. Hope your hard work and honestly grows beyond than what it is now.
I wish I could express myself as well as you can, all I am able to say in order to get my point across in a practical yet complete way is that *I simply love your content, thank you.*
I project my insecurities on others all the time. It's why I have no friends.. I only became conscious of it recently, after 40 years. So it's hard to stop.
I think I said this before but great work with this video, I'm a psych student and already I'm finding myself bringing up Jung and defending him to my teachers, because while I understand his theories can't be tested, as far as we know, and he freely admitted it too, in his own words, intuitively, he was without peer with this work, almost blurring the lines between psychology, meta-physics, philosophy and religion. One of the very few truly great intellects and there will be not be another Jung. That is all.
*I watched all of your videos.* You've made quite a few videos on Jung, and his videos echo what I believe for a long time. There is a part of us, comprised of not only child-like mischievousness, but genuine malice and the one way to prevent this side of us from completely overtaking us is to know it, and to know it intimately and closely. I have my own philosophy channel, and ever since I've started you guys have been my inspiration and reference points when making my own videos. Keep up the phenomenal work!
I see projection a lot in arguments. They will even project the fact the they are projecting and accuse you of projection. I don't know if people can overcome their illusions. It seems like that requires a character of truthfulness, and I don't know how one can obtain that. What if it's all stupidity? I've become pessimistic about whether people really improve themselves. Most people only bother enough to function in society, which is such a low bar. To be excellent for the sake of excellence. What encourages that?
Yourself. You are your worse enemy and your best ally... Memento Mori, my friend. Focus on inner excellence rather than projecting disappointment into a generalized statement such as "most people". Seek for the inner Truth and you'll see pessimism and optimism, two very easily destabilized ideas, lose all meaning on you. The truth is cold, and is frozen in a prison made out of ice; hope is the prison. Therefor, dare seek for coldness and hope. Meditate on this and have a good day ~
godhead Was it mindless, or analogical thoughtful words of wisdom that requires deconstructions and spend some time to analyze what each part could mean? If you really were looking for improvement, you wouldn't avoid or show dislikes for such things you despise as "mindless words". I was just trying to help a lost soul
Total respect... This might be one of the most important video uploads ever done. I'm truly blown away by it. While taking in the information I literally saw flash backs of dreams and weird half asleep/half awake experiences I've had over the last couple of years, in which I saw a demon version of myself, or was attacked by some evil shadow, and I kept asking "WHO ARE YOU??" and it kept on screaming at me, and at some point I realized it was actually screaming my name :S Great upload, thank you for your great work! :)
Academy of Ideas - Great Job for relying on your knowledge of the topic, and not sensationalism of dark music and creepy-ness to explain this. SO often I see examples of people trying to turn the Shadow Self topic into some sort of goosebumps story. This was useful on an intellectual level, not pop-psychologised. Good Job
I always blamed demons for my shortcomings, everytime I become good, bad things happened to me, taking away people or things that made me happy. Now I know it wasn't demons, It was my shadow
A good way I like to simplify this 'shadow' into a tangible experience is by looking at the baby photos of men and women who engaged in evil and despicable actions in the later parts of their lives. How does a perfectly innocent and selfless child lose so badly inside their heart to grow to become a murderer? How does a child, loved by their parents, learn to hate freedom and justice and to seek out totalitarian ideologies to destroy the home and country that raised them? To realize that one day, you won't be you anymore. You will be the monster that you never learned to control.
Thank you so much for this video! I've always had it in mind to read about Carl Jung but it's difficult to buy the time with all the schoolwork. Keep up the good work xxx
This video is a gem. I learned this stuff the hard way, when I thought it was just a sign of madness that I spent so much time arguing with my self ... long, heated arguments that went on for days sometimes. It's kind of good to know, now, that I wasn't as alone then as I thought I was. It was never just me ... we _all_ have a difficult relationship with Life.
@Echo Studio Integrating the shadow means integrating it into your daily life. If you understand what lies in your shadow, you need to figure out how to meet its needs and desires in your life in a controlled manner, so that you feel fulfilled but you're not causing unneeded suffering to other people.
@@timeforamazingchest5271 Right! If we suppress our shadow, it only becomes stronger and darker. We have to learn to work it into our regular lives in a healthy way. Very tricky.. still figuring out how to do this myself.
I want to thanked bts because they're making me watch this kind of videos and learn some psychology things I didn't know before to solve their upcoming album theories
Ah, Jung. It’s all the more sad that indeed those who have the most brutal “shadow” are indeed the less inclined to self-criticism. Not the most positive end note, really...
I use that video with the explanation to introduce people to the concept of the shadow or Carl Jung. Especially effective if they're tool fans already.
Jordan Peele's Us (2019) brought me here. This film has a deep psychological theme throughout it. The shadow is a big theme in this film, literally. But there are things I have no idea what it's trying to say psychologically. I wonder if you will see this film and give us your thoughts and an explanation of what this film is trying to say. I think it'll be extremely interesting to hear your thoughts and interesting to see what you think? Thanks.
I'm not sure how to implement this in my life. We can see our shadow through our projections, but do you have exemples in day to day life ? Is it about what we think people think ? I don't know exactly where to look. Anyway, great videos :)
A place to start: Imagine the most heinous thing that you could do and then imagine what it would take to cause you to do that. You can glamorize it at first, making yourself out to be in some way justified in your actions. But as you mature, you will begin to see that you and the very worst of humans are more alike than you are different. Eventually, you will *begin* to actually incorporate your shadow. This is dangerous, because it forces you to acknowledge the evil in you and actually allow it space in your conscious mind rather than laying in your subconscious. The idea is to balance it. A good person is not one who has buried their ability to do harm, but rather one who keeps this ability close at hand but chooses not to employ it unless needed.
@hehe hehe You have to imagine yourself in hypothetical situations. For example, when someone hurts me I have a tendency to sit at home and imagine that I am doing the worst things to them; hurting them, torturing them, destroying them psychologically... Take it as a sort of act where you project yourself into such an intense fantasy that you might as well say that it is real and there you will see just how disgusting you can be. Most of the time you can discover the nature of humanity through your own self. You hold all of it.
When you take these lessons you have to go slow because they're very compact. A lot of information will do you no good without analysis. Don't be a miscreant and over look the facts and never change for the better. Do the right thing for everyone including yourself. Be a good person and overcome the shadow of evil or it will overcome you and both lose. There is a hell and there is a heaven and it is totally your choice
Doesn't defining things as good and evil create a sort of disparity? What if the problem is just that? By creating these measurements of what is good and what is not, we induce an artificial suffering upon ourselves and others, instead of just accepting what we are both as an individual and as a species. The the shadow could be our simplest, primal form of consciousness and the "good" part of ourselves that is subject to the perception of external forces, such as society and culture is a phenomena created by said factors and other environmental things. The "good" side of us would be fake, and subject to change and thus unreliable. Maybe the destructive forces of the shadow are an effort to bring to light this disparity or dissonance within us.
But that's the curse of mankind; duality. The awareness of good and evil is what separates us from the things that cannot perceive that. But we mostly perceive it because the primal instinct can hurt us, like animals eat each other and we will each other and those are primal instincts which we can discern hurt us. We can't stay blind to pain, weve risen above that a very long time ago. You can accept that it's there and that might alleviate something but man has a need to survive and to strive and maybe that's how we got there, by survival we were brought up to philosophies and religious thought and psychology
@@magnumdujardin7297 Humans are made up of savagery and intellect at the same time. We created civilizations based on moral and the collectivism of humans, and individuality is the price for it. But in the contemporary age of consumerism and political state idealism, it is important for us to regain the individuality in us. To do that, according to one of AOI's video on Jung, we should bring the ugly, unwanted despised part of us into consciousness, and mindfully accept that it is part of us. In order for us to function normally as part of society, to put up a Persona that acts morally and empathetically is of utmost importance. But then, again, we should realize that this "Persona" is just a small part of our personality and not to over-identify ourselves with it. We should accept that we have thoughts that spawn from immoral sides of our personality and bring it to consciousness that we are imperfect. By doing so, we complete ourselves spiritually, even the path to completion is endless and one can only go so far before one breathes one's last.
This is brilliant and explains many people to me. I make an excellent scapegoat. Funny, but what I project on myself are largely false flaws. What I project on others are false abilities.
Wild Strawberries It can confidently be said that “SJWs” resort to scapegoating tactics. I don’t see how that is a controversial idea in the least bit. That doesn’t mean they are the only ones who scapegoat, but only that they are an obvious example in today’s polarized world.
Wild Strawberries Are the "SJWs" not blaming the straight white man (represented by the heteronormative white patriarchy) for the problems of minorities? Seems like scapegoating to me, albeit on the behalf on others, i.e. minorities
Wild Strawberries Yes, but it is not solely because of the straight white man, as the SJWs seem to claim. The straight white man is being singled out and made to bear all of the blame. That's why I say it seems like scapegoating. You can still scapegoat a group for actual injustices.
Wild Strawberries I'm not claiming sexuality has anything to do with it, I'm just parroting what I hear and read. In SJW circles it is almost never just the white man, it is almost always the straight white man. I assume they have reasons for including sexuality, pertaining to intersectionality I imagine. "The racist white teenager on 4chan has never been asked to accept the blame yet he feels like his race is being burdened with all the guilt." And why is that, you reckon? Could it have anything to do with the widespread anti-white media narrative, particularly of sites such as Vice? Or articles such as the one published in a Texas university newspaper under the title "Your DNA is an abomination", featuring a picture with the words "White is over! If you want it", the first sentence of the article being "Now I am become white, the destroyer of worlds."? I'm not claiming there isn't a problem, but there's a serious lack of nuance and critical thinking in the discussion of the problems. Whites should most certainly be helping alleviate the problem, but it is not solely their responsibility. The black communities have responsibilities to bear aswell, such as solving the absent father crisis, and the gang culture problem costing so many young black men their lives in the streets of cities like Chicago.
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Five years of awesome videos, but... Where's the Alfred north whitehead series?
Academy of Ideas This is a serious question. Is labelling oneself as a scapegoat equivalent with projecting to the bully? I feel like I have been mistreated by my parents my whole life. I believe my father is an NPD and my mom a combination of borderline and NPD. No matter how much I try I always get the blame, always looked upon in such a bad light,and I’m never enough. I have many neurotic tendencies that I’m trying to overcome and I’m scared if I’m ignorant to the fact that I’m actually projecting just like they often do to me.
Do you have some sort of giant reading list somewhere. A reading list centered around Psychology/philosophy. Seams like there are so many different places to start.
Are the photos of the art works are free to use/download?
Hey. I'm looking for the video that talks about "True Beauty"
The closer you walk towards the light the greater your shadow becomes...
And when you integrate the shadow, you burst into the LIGHT.
@@K4242-r6l And when all is light, there is no shadow
@@andrewspain9276 thats not the point. The point of individuasation is not to destroy the shadow, but to embrace it. Re watch this, you failed to understand the point.
@@TheReaper569 you just didnt understand what I mean
@@andrewspain9276 bad choice of words then.
_"Until we make the unconscious conscious, it will keep directing our lives, and we will call it fate."_
- Carl Jung
how do you make the unnconnscious conscious, just curious been diving deeper in to this
This channel is so profound, it should be part of every school curriculum
It would probably go way over most of their heads though.
@@Jimmybarth if they pay attention
If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us
Hermann Hesse
Hesse was hugely influenced by Jung. They exchanged a series of letters which is quite an interesting read.
bnar bnar That's actually something that also Dostoyevski said in The Brothers Karamazov
Clever but I don't buy it, unless he meant we all possess the exact same psyche
What's the context of that quote. On its own, it's clearly not true.
"Hate the sin, not the sinner."
Your channel is a gem, keep making videos :)
This. Is. The. Work. I am so encouraged and moved and terribly challenged by your videos. Thank you and please keep doing it!
But man, we need help... I felt like I knew all “this stuff” pretty well. Then I encountered myself in a controlled psychedelic experience and *jeeeeeeesus*, man - the shadow is *real*. And it’s holy and horrible and... terribly challenging as I said above.
I just.... It’s such challenging, brave work to confront this part of one’s self. And we need help learning how to engage these ideas experientially.
But I want to say, if it weren’t for exposure to Jung and other mystic-ish Doaist-ish conversations, I wouldn’t have fared half as well as I did when I confronted this side of me. It was in large part your videos that provide my encounter with Jung, who, in turn, provides my encounter with a kind of intelligent mythopoetic mysticism, which in turn provides all my connection to the goddam universe! So, yea, thanks for the videos. They really mattered to me.
I dont know if the video said this, I didnt watch it all through but fight the "bad" side with the good side literally. With patience, confidence, integrity, acceptance and respect. Only then do you beat it. And rememeber all is one. Theres no "devil" and "god" but rather a duo that creates the perfect novelty. Yin and yang
And imo go as slow as you can and youl realize its actually the quickest way. Quality over quanity.
@@andrewspain9276 Your urban text is missing letters. Watch for real words and its structure. Some people have forgotten to correctly type... I see it soo many times on UA-cam. I don't want to be rude but project yourself into your words .... together with learned behavior you can be progressively great. Have a good day..
P Well said. It is a common problem we face globaly, but unfortunately not just in typing...
Always take higher doses. Sooner or later you'll fall off the edge and see that god is a demon. Of course from then on you'll suffer horribly. God is a jealous god. AKA the Demiurge. This is the reality of material existence. Just enough pleasure to make you think you're about to get free of the suffering. The ultimate drug of addiction.
Life changing, i have to forgive my father's abandonment of me, and stop scapegoating that as the source of all my insecurities
That's me bro
Probably black.
The abondonment may well be the original source of the insecurity, but its resolution is in the present.
I hope it goes well for you, I have a similar background and it’s not easy. I don’t nessecarly think it’s wrong to point out a cause to one’s problem, the problem is when we strongly identify with our own mind, when we defend our ego and take sides of the same coin. The cause and affects in any given situation are infinite and perhaps your father acted that way because he too experienced abandonment.
@Gugulethu Mkhize how?
So well done. As the world becomes more polarized between different ideological camps, I hope more people see this and take pause.
Yes. It’s all a game and people are taking it way to serious.
@@TrappoRL rrŕ4
The left is stupid though
@@arturkvieira yeah but you can't fix leftist
The right is just as incompetent.
Ever since I became conscious of my shadow, I’ve have come to realize why is it that I’ve committed certain acts before. Looking back into my mind, I’ve gotten flashback of things I’ve done which I now see is part my shadow self. I love it ! Without the knowledge this past freethinkers I would not discover this. I appreciate your content. Salute 🙏🏼
give an example
Now I know what
"Love thy neighbor as thyself" means.
Goya was such a great paintor. Great to see you have used him here it really goes very well with the theme of the Jungian shadow (specially his dark paintings)
Goya always had an eye for social critique, expressed beautifully through his paintings.
I truly wish to be financially independent to be able to support channels like yours...
Here is a Junq's quote that summarizes idividual who discovers himself : " The acceptance of oneself is the essence of the whole moral problem and the epitome of a whole outlook on life. That i feed the hungry, that i forgive an insult, that i love my enemy - all these are undoubtedly great virtues. But what if i should discover that the least among them all, the poorest of all the beggars, the most impudent of all the offenders, the very enemy himself-that these are WITHIN ME, and that i myself stand in the need of the alms of my own kindness - that I MYSELF AM THE ENEMY who must be loved - what then?
Man some powerful words , I’m fairly new to this and Jung had an incredible insight on life . We must study more of the human psyche for we know far too little .
“ we are the origins of all coming evil “
@@Thesp88 Each should study their own psyche. By understanding yourself you understand others. No one can understand anyone for them. This is a path all have to take for the world to chance. Jung was truly enlightened. His work has helped me tremendously.
Makes me think of the book Shutter Island. (Dennis Lehane)
You love yourself
LOVE YOURSELF
Your videos on Jung is what I share with my friends as an intoduction to Jung. It's really important as you explain concepts very fluidly in an easy to understand way. Thank you for your work.
This channel is a hidden gem.
Steven Irving Truth!
I love you man
Yes
I feel this lecture needs to be heard by all especially during these troubling times where panic and uncertainty is breeding hate and animosity within ourselves. How do you get the masses to think for themselves though rather then being led by those who only desire to cause division amongst our brothers.
Uncanny how perfectly this video describes what is currently going on... Pretty incredible, really.
The masses will never figure it out, it will always be a small few that aren’t moronic
@@Jesus-Is-King19 We seem to be a nation of "useful idiots" right now.
GuppyPal barely that
5:31 Glad this was mentioned. Sometimes it's projection or another defense mechanism, and sometimes the target individual or group is blameworthy. We need to be highly rational, brutally honest and call a spade a spade when necessary.
Very well done. Please keep expanding on Carl Jung’s teachings. You articulate on the subject so well
Guys let’s donate to him. This channel is amazing and the way he breaks it down not even professors can do.
The best beginning to this process is to accept that you are capable of being an utter arsehole and a savage, if pushed correctly.
This makes accepting others easier as you have allowed yourself to see your own darkness and therefore easier to see others as complete beings - as flawed and awful as we are
Your videos are so well done. Love seeing all that beautiful art while hearing amazing information.
Always great stuff
Life is a battle and so often people put up defence mechanisms try and not fight that battle. This is a really fascinating topic, thanks so much for sharing it!
The closure, is one of the best utterance i've ever heard. So much to learn, so much to extrapolate from this.
Your explanation of Jung is the only proper one , I found in youtube till this date. Hope your hard work and honestly grows beyond than what it is now.
I wish I could express myself as well as you can, all I am able to say in order to get my point across in a practical yet complete way is that *I simply love your content, thank you.*
hands down to the most beautiful content i’ve seen on youtube...
Bravo, great video!! This should be taught in school, around junior high maybe earlier.
Really well put together thank you
I project my insecurities on others all the time. It's why I have no friends.. I only became conscious of it recently, after 40 years. So it's hard to stop.
I think I said this before but great work with this video, I'm a psych student and already I'm finding myself bringing up Jung and defending him to my teachers, because while I understand his theories can't be tested, as far as we know, and he freely admitted it too, in his own words, intuitively, he was without peer with this work, almost blurring the lines between psychology, meta-physics, philosophy and religion. One of the very few truly great intellects and there will be not be another Jung. That is all.
All your videos are filled with beautiful paintings. Thank you for it!
*I watched all of your videos.*
You've made quite a few videos on Jung, and his videos echo what I believe for a long time. There is a part of us, comprised of not only child-like mischievousness, but genuine malice and the one way to prevent this side of us from completely overtaking us is to know it, and to know it intimately and closely.
I have my own philosophy channel, and ever since I've started you guys have been my inspiration and reference points when making my own videos. Keep up the phenomenal work!
His videos...whose....Jung's?
You feel Jung is echoing your beliefs?
Disgrace he plagiarised you like that, the charlatan.
Carl Jung was a terrifying intellectual. I need to read his books ASAP
Have you?
An awakened man employs his mind as a mirror. It encounters phenomena and attaches to nothing. A luminous mind projects shadows of light.
I see projection a lot in arguments. They will even project the fact the they are projecting and accuse you of projection. I don't know if people can overcome their illusions. It seems like that requires a character of truthfulness, and I don't know how one can obtain that. What if it's all stupidity? I've become pessimistic about whether people really improve themselves. Most people only bother enough to function in society, which is such a low bar. To be excellent for the sake of excellence. What encourages that?
Yourself. You are your worse enemy and your best ally... Memento Mori, my friend.
Focus on inner excellence rather than projecting disappointment into a generalized statement such as "most people".
Seek for the inner Truth and you'll see pessimism and optimism, two very easily destabilized ideas, lose all meaning on you. The truth is cold, and is frozen in a prison made out of ice; hope is the prison.
Therefor, dare seek for coldness and hope.
Meditate on this and have a good day ~
Oh look, a "wise" man using terms incorrectly and spewing mindless platitudes.
godhead well have you improved yourself?
tom io I'm not sure it's "improvement" rather than fulfilling my abilities.
godhead Was it mindless, or analogical thoughtful words of wisdom that requires deconstructions and spend some time to analyze what each part could mean?
If you really were looking for improvement, you wouldn't avoid or show dislikes for such things you despise as "mindless words". I was just trying to help a lost soul
This is so concise and pertinent..... truly magnificent UA-cam video 💚🖤💚
keith brinson i agreeeeee!
More about projection please, it's quite the most interesting psychologically defined phenomena. ThanX.
There is a channel called The Diamond Net. She talks very clearly and extensively on Carl Jung concepts and many related topics including projection.
This message is always needed, but it seems even more pertinent right now. Thank you.
Not only do I appreciate the message in each video, I appreciate the art work as well. 🏆
I think this is one of your most profound videos. An almost impossible amount of wisdom contained in this 8 minutes.
Excellent as always. Thank you
Total respect... This might be one of the most important video uploads ever done. I'm truly blown away by it. While taking in the information I literally saw flash backs of dreams and weird half asleep/half awake experiences I've had over the last couple of years, in which I saw a demon version of myself, or was attacked by some evil shadow, and I kept asking "WHO ARE YOU??" and it kept on screaming at me, and at some point I realized it was actually screaming my name :S Great upload, thank you for your great work! :)
I was waiting for this for a long time. Thank you!
Academy of Ideas - Great Job for relying on your knowledge of the topic, and not sensationalism of dark music and creepy-ness to explain this. SO often I see examples of people trying to turn the Shadow Self topic into some sort of goosebumps story. This was useful on an intellectual level, not pop-psychologised. Good Job
I always blamed demons for my shortcomings, everytime I become good, bad things happened to me, taking away people or things that made me happy. Now I know it wasn't demons, It was my shadow
I love the way you guys always add paintings which are not directly relevant but somehow they are.
A good way I like to simplify this 'shadow' into a tangible experience is by looking at the baby photos of men and women who engaged in evil and despicable actions in the later parts of their lives. How does a perfectly innocent and selfless child lose so badly inside their heart to grow to become a murderer? How does a child, loved by their parents, learn to hate freedom and justice and to seek out totalitarian ideologies to destroy the home and country that raised them?
To realize that one day, you won't be you anymore. You will be the monster that you never learned to control.
This is like psychology meets philosophy meets spirituality and it’s messing me up in all of the right ways. Thank you.
Haha that's Jung summed up really.
Dude thank you so much. This video is so important right now
the painting at 4:50 is extraordinary, the mountains in the back look like something out of a video game
"I am not what you think I am, you are what you think I am" - Buddha
So much beauty in this channel. These videos will stand in the end. The truth always floats to the top.
Positive projections can be the basis of attraction and even love. Projections aren't just negative projections...but it is a worthy subject.
You guys are killing it! 💪
Thanks a lot for another great video!
Nice pic :)
Just discovered your channel.... (where have I been?). Sharing these vids... hopefully these can help society... for we have sunk very low. Thank You!
I don't have a shadow, as my Facebook clearly shows.
Thank you so much for this video! I've always had it in mind to read about Carl Jung but it's difficult to buy the time with all the schoolwork. Keep up the good work xxx
Thank you! It's funny this knowledge is inside us but we need to remember. Boom the part at the end....love it.
This is why I try to take what other people tell me less seriously. When someone says I'm weird, it means there's part of them they think is weird.
I always catch myself Projecting, it's so depressing
This video is a gem.
I learned this stuff the hard way, when I thought it was just a sign of madness that I spent so much time arguing with my self ... long, heated arguments that went on for days sometimes. It's kind of good to know, now, that I wasn't as alone then as I thought I was. It was never just me ... we _all_ have a difficult relationship with Life.
You spent days arguing with yourself?
I've got bad news for you dude...
So, to integrate shadow one first should acknowledge it by bringing conscious attention to certain force that lies within, in shadow. And then what?
You keep it at bay. And you use it in a productive manner, defending yourself, and maybe defending others from injustice are some examples.
Another Jungian concept where you find a dynamic with the Shadow is Persona. Dig into that
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Integrating the shadow means integrating it into your daily life. If you understand what lies in your shadow, you need to figure out how to meet its needs and desires in your life in a controlled manner, so that you feel fulfilled but you're not causing unneeded suffering to other people.
@@timeforamazingchest5271 Right! If we suppress our shadow, it only becomes stronger and darker. We have to learn to work it into our regular lives in a healthy way. Very tricky.. still figuring out how to do this myself.
*this channel is a gold mine*
Could you do a video on Herman Hesse's philosophy and novels (specially Stepenwolf)??
I have learned more from this UA-cam channel than I have from 10 years in school.
I want to thanked bts because they're making me watch this kind of videos and learn some psychology things I didn't know before to solve their upcoming album theories
Keep making these videos. They are incredibly valuable and profound to us all! 💛🙏👏
Ah, Jung.
It’s all the more sad that indeed those who have the most brutal “shadow” are indeed the less inclined to self-criticism.
Not the most positive end note, really...
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Congratulations on your channel. Your hard work shines and adds value to the lives of all of your viewers. Keep it up!
Any Tool fans out there think about 46 and 2 when listening to this video?
Pakistani Kima exactly
But of course!
I think anyone dually aware of Psychology and tool makes a lot of connections between the concepts
I use that video with the explanation to introduce people to the concept of the shadow or Carl Jung. Especially effective if they're tool fans already.
Pakistani Kima no.. But. Am a fan.. It's forward critical thinking
One of the best videos I've seen. It has helped me understand myself better.
Jordan Peele's Us (2019) brought me here. This film has a deep psychological theme throughout it. The shadow is a big theme in this film, literally. But there are things I have no idea what it's trying to say psychologically. I wonder if you will see this film and give us your thoughts and an explanation of what this film is trying to say. I think it'll be extremely interesting to hear your thoughts and interesting to see what you think? Thanks.
The man delves into psychology not movie reviews.
Wow… Profound. Projection equals rejection of self. A gigantic lesson for self improvement. Thank you for sharing.
Before I got into Jung I was failing time after time and blaming everything but myself .
Going around in circles and going crazy.
Man what an important video, this needs to go viral, says a lot about our current days.
That's interesting how he kind of predicted ww2.
I'm glad you've made these videos detailing Jungs theories, since Jung's accent is difficult to understand
I'm not sure how to implement this in my life. We can see our shadow through our projections, but do you have exemples in day to day life ? Is it about what we think people think ? I don't know exactly where to look. Anyway, great videos :)
A place to start: Imagine the most heinous thing that you could do and then imagine what it would take to cause you to do that. You can glamorize it at first, making yourself out to be in some way justified in your actions. But as you mature, you will begin to see that you and the very worst of humans are more alike than you are different.
Eventually, you will *begin* to actually incorporate your shadow. This is dangerous, because it forces you to acknowledge the evil in you and actually allow it space in your conscious mind rather than laying in your subconscious. The idea is to balance it. A good person is not one who has buried their ability to do harm, but rather one who keeps this ability close at hand but chooses not to employ it unless needed.
@hehe hehe You have to imagine yourself in hypothetical situations. For example, when someone hurts me I have a tendency to sit at home and imagine that I am doing the worst things to them; hurting them, torturing them, destroying them psychologically... Take it as a sort of act where you project yourself into such an intense fantasy that you might as well say that it is real and there you will see just how disgusting you can be. Most of the time you can discover the nature of humanity through your own self. You hold all of it.
I've yet to watch an Academy of Ideas video that didn't pierce right through. This is exceptionally well articulated content.
Peterson-esque breakdown. I like it.
Because Peterson is a Jungian.
Dang, that Carl Jung quote at the end pierced hard.
where do you find your paintings and art for these videos?
You can find a gallery and links to all the art work here: academyofideas.com/2018/02/carl-jung-shadow-dangers-of-psychological-projection/
Thank you! I actually meant where YOU find the art, but it looks like it's wikipedia?
Wikimedia, not Wikipedia.
Woooow, this is really good!
With all the riots and racial tension that are happening right now this is what in play , the scapegoat .
MY MOUTH WAS DROPPED WHILE LISTENING TO THIS, THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT IS HAPPENING.
you are doing a great service toward education...thank you !!!
i am familiar w projection ...see it
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When you take these lessons you have to go slow because they're very compact. A lot of information will do you no good without analysis. Don't be a miscreant and over look the facts and never change for the better. Do the right thing for everyone including yourself. Be a good person and overcome the shadow of evil or it will overcome you and both lose. There is a hell and there is a heaven and it is totally your choice
I very rarely comment on videos, but wow this one was great.
Narcasist is the weak of heart who deny and project. Some of these, even if made clear, will choose SLEEP
Wow this is amazing. Listen carefully and rewind if you have to
Doesn't defining things as good and evil create a sort of disparity? What if the problem is just that? By creating these measurements of what is good and what is not, we induce an artificial suffering upon ourselves and others, instead of just accepting what we are both as an individual and as a species. The the shadow could be our simplest, primal form of consciousness and the "good" part of ourselves that is subject to the perception of external forces, such as society and culture is a phenomena created by said factors and other environmental things. The "good" side of us would be fake, and subject to change and thus unreliable. Maybe the destructive forces of the shadow are an effort to bring to light this disparity or dissonance within us.
But that's the curse of mankind; duality. The awareness of good and evil is what separates us from the things that cannot perceive that. But we mostly perceive it because the primal instinct can hurt us, like animals eat each other and we will each other and those are primal instincts which we can discern hurt us. We can't stay blind to pain, weve risen above that a very long time ago. You can accept that it's there and that might alleviate something but man has a need to survive and to strive and maybe that's how we got there, by survival we were brought up to philosophies and religious thought and psychology
@@magnumdujardin7297 Humans are made up of savagery and intellect at the same time. We created civilizations based on moral and the collectivism of humans, and individuality is the price for it. But in the contemporary age of consumerism and political state idealism, it is important for us to regain the individuality in us. To do that, according to one of AOI's video on Jung, we should bring the ugly, unwanted despised part of us into consciousness, and mindfully accept that it is part of us. In order for us to function normally as part of society, to put up a Persona that acts morally and empathetically is of utmost importance. But then, again, we should realize that this "Persona" is just a small part of our personality and not to over-identify ourselves with it. We should accept that we have thoughts that spawn from immoral sides of our personality and bring it to consciousness that we are imperfect. By doing so, we complete ourselves spiritually, even the path to completion is endless and one can only go so far before one breathes one's last.
Conky, defining things as good and evil is called: 'splitting' and a hallmark of psychopathy. (narcissism)
Appreciate the use of all the Goya paintings 👍
It always has bean
Hell of a channel, keep up the great work!
Was Marx scapegoating the Bourgeoisie?
Michael Wu it is possible that he was scapegoating the capitalists/ceos/wealthy.
Kapitalism can be used for good things as well as bad things the way its used by humans now is a way that does more harm than good
Absolutely. He himself was rich..
This is brilliant and explains many people to me. I make an excellent scapegoat.
Funny, but what I project on myself are largely false flaws. What I project on others are false abilities.
brush this is what is going on in politics right especially with the SJWs. scapegoating.
I don't think either of you want to understand each other.
Wild Strawberries It can confidently be said that “SJWs” resort to scapegoating tactics. I don’t see how that is a controversial idea in the least bit. That doesn’t mean they are the only ones who scapegoat, but only that they are an obvious example in today’s polarized world.
Wild Strawberries
Are the "SJWs" not blaming the straight white man (represented by the heteronormative white patriarchy) for the problems of minorities?
Seems like scapegoating to me, albeit on the behalf on others, i.e. minorities
Wild Strawberries
Yes, but it is not solely because of the straight white man, as the SJWs seem to claim. The straight white man is being singled out and made to bear all of the blame. That's why I say it seems like scapegoating. You can still scapegoat a group for actual injustices.
Wild Strawberries
I'm not claiming sexuality has anything to do with it, I'm just parroting what I hear and read. In SJW circles it is almost never just the white man, it is almost always the straight white man. I assume they have reasons for including sexuality, pertaining to intersectionality I imagine.
"The racist white teenager on 4chan has never been asked to accept the blame yet he feels like his race is being burdened with all the guilt."
And why is that, you reckon? Could it have anything to do with the widespread anti-white media narrative, particularly of sites such as Vice? Or articles such as the one published in a Texas university newspaper under the title "Your DNA is an abomination", featuring a picture with the words "White is over! If you want it", the first sentence of the article being "Now I am become white, the destroyer of worlds."?
I'm not claiming there isn't a problem, but there's a serious lack of nuance and critical thinking in the discussion of the problems. Whites should most certainly be helping alleviate the problem, but it is not solely their responsibility. The black communities have responsibilities to bear aswell, such as solving the absent father crisis, and the gang culture problem costing so many young black men their lives in the streets of cities like Chicago.
so important to remember now