Explore Jung's theory on collective unconscious and its application in therapy for domestic violence, autoimmune diseases, and post-traumatic stress.
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[...] There are even those who no longer feel any reason to live and commit suicide. This attitude does not give the patient access to their depressive capacity. To prevent this act from occurring, the psychoanalyst must use all their efforts to make the patient grieve for their pre-illness health. In addition, I am also specialized in supporting people suffering from post-traumatic stress. Post-traumatic stress is actually caused by all kinds of aggression, whether sexual, moral, physical, or by natural phenomena that have negatively impacted the patient's psychological system, and of course other acts of violence. [...]
[...] Here are the consequences of this pathological disorder: first, I tend to establish a comparison between the situations in the external world and those I experienced before. My experience has allowed me to be extremely resilient. I also tend to rely on the past. I keep information on the sensation for future use. I re-examine situations experienced in the past, there are impressions that are maintained in my brain. Flashes from my unconscious appear. These are 'symptoms of reminiscence'. In other words, these are traumatic flashbacks. [...]
[...] The control of the animal is not only for the rider. Here, the horse represents the unconscious and the rider the conscious. It can certainly happen that the horse throws the rider. In other words, the rider will not always have mastery over the animal. From this tripartite categorization, we can now obtain three systems, the Unconscious-the Preconscious-and the Conscious. Each assumes its own role and has its own mechanisms. They also have their respective 'investment energies and representative contours'. [...]
[...] The ideal of the hero is universal to all cultures and beliefs. In this case, we are talking about the mythological hero and the religious hero. Thus, mythological and religious heroes such as Hercules, Conan, David, or Jesus are considered as being 'concrete forms' of 'an invariant core of meaning'. This core is the struggle to achieve perfection, the definitive evolution of humanity. If we try to go further with archetypes, there are also what are called 'complexes' which are personalized archetypes that individuals have adopted and transformed into 'sub-personalities' dominated by ideas and emotions. [...]
[...] Therefore, based on the Freudian conception, believing in human autonomy is an illusion. For this reason, the Freudian conception of man turns to the idea that he is a social being because the satisfaction of his libidinal and physiological needs and self-preservation can only be obtained through his communication with the external world. Furthermore, the synthesis of the antagonism between the determination and indetermination of the will confirms the Freudian hypothesis that man is not free because in reality he is determined by the ego, the superego, and his unconscious. [...]
