Status Updates From Yaralı Damat: Jungiyen Psik...

“Unless such a person becomes conscious, the abused child within becomes the abuser. Only years of intense inner work can break that cycle. To walk out of that prison a free soul demands years of fingernail-filing on the prison chain until there comes a moment when the prisoner breaks the chain… That leap into freedom is the leap out of a power-driven existence into a life lived in love.”

“Crucial to the success of analysis is the affirmation of pain as the voice of the authentic self. The pleasure derived from pain is the recognition that within it is an authentic voice, like the cry of a child who has accidentally fallen into a well. All the villagers set to work around the clock to rescue her, encouraged and energized by [her wail]. If they can reach her before the cry stops, they know she…”

“She was in the grip of her complex. To act upon it could lead to acts of violence or withdrawal so complete as virtually to existinguish her own identity. Psychosis resides in the identification with an archetype. So long as there is resistance, which is to say pain or illness, the individual is able to maintain a precarious didferentiation. Pain protects us from psychosis.”

“Trust leads to surrender. If the surrender has been portrayed, then trust becomes almost impossible. The opposite to surrender is possession, being taken over by a driving energy that blindly clutches onto everything or throws it away. To melt into surrender, requires a feminine container, a matrix, strong enough to choose to give oneself over to the unknown… “

“I realized how I’d treated my body like a donkey, carrying all my stresses. I shoved food in to shut up its efforts to tell me about its pain.”

“The clown knows the pain involved in sacrificing, the possessive eco-centered clutching that makes us vulnerable to loss but honors the detachment that leads to freedom. Clown energy lives on the fine line between tears and laughter, personal tragedy and divine comedy. Playful concentration that includes and transcends the opposite is the energy that can transform the magician.” 🙃🤡

There are lots of parts where i’m a bit lost, but i’m also gleaning some interesting perspectives and insights into my own dreams from this.

“If a person has never confronted the childhood betrayal that led to trauma, the process of fragmentation can gain such ascendancy that it becomes autonomous. The individual is unable to understand his or her own behavior, particularly when that behavior repeatedly results in actions that are opposite of the conscious intent.”