> [!info] Reading notes — [[Collected Works of C. G. Jung, Volume 16]] (*The Practice of Psychotherapy*). C1, P2 There are two sides of man. Man in so far as he resembles universal man, and man in his individuality and uniqueness. Although one only encounters man as individual, one can only grasp everything about him as he relates to the universal man. P20 A lot of modern medicine is suggestion therapy. Whereas all religions and even magical rituals of old are forms of psychotherapy that heals the suffering of the soul, or the suffering of the body caused by the soul. P31 Freud’s large contribution as a doctor is to demand causes of neurosis be made conscious (which suggestion therapy does not demand). It’s not even fair to call that his largest contribution to psychology because modern psychological treatments all already take that as an axiom. P33 A problem psychology struggled with for a long time was generalizability. Theories are too simple thus generalizable to too large a people. Freud’s trauma theory was an example of too generalize a theory for neurosis. Adler sufficient shown that many cases of neurosis can be explained with causes other than trauma. P36 Adler “individual psychology” and Freud “psychotherapy” are both treatments that take a patient seriously as an individual with his own peculiarities. Suggestion Theory -> Imaginary Causes Non-theory -> Trauma Theory -> Repression Theory P51 Freud made the unconscious a significant topic in the eyes of the public. P98 Fantasy is not just bad. There are bad fantasies. All good also comes from fantasies — that is the creative imagination. Only with fantasies can one engage in play. P99 Religion of today is no longer about dogmas and creeds, but about religious attitude (and I assume by extension, religious experience) P132 To keep secrets and to hold back emotions in private are both causes for neuroses. Communal secrets can be good. More particularly, keeping one’s own feeling of inferiority private is problematic. Only by being vulnerable can one overcome such feelings of inferiority. P134 Thus, confessions are useful, and important. P137 Confessions are not enough. Some are extremely resistant to prying into the unconscious by means of rationalization. P138 Another case is attachment issues, either to the person being confessed to, or to himself (his own unconscious) and finds trouble adapting to regular life. P139 Transference as a problem. P143 After cathartic method faces problem of transference, Freud builds on Breuer’s cathartic method to create his “interpretive method.” P153 Catharsis -> Elucidation -> Education P157 “we are not the personal creators of our truths, but only their exponents, mere mouthpieces of the day's psychic needs” similar to the point Nietzsche made in the beginning of Beyond Good and Evil P205 How we gone from understanding the unconscious as only secondary to consciousness, to understanding the unconscious as the real and authentic psyche, and consciousness as only secondary— both temporary and somewhat miraculous. P206 *A clear articulation of the relationship between study of mythology and psychology* The psyche as microcosm. It’s true if parts of the world beyond individual experience is present in the individual a priori. Different from philosophical conception of “inherited ideas” or innate ideas, what we are looking for here are a priori constant modes of behavior and function. Mythological parallelism acts as general proof. P219 The centering process that points to a center known as the self, that which classical yoga is aimed at realizing. The western equivalent is alchemy. P220 Alchemical conception of self. P223 Psychology aims to educate the individual to moral freedom, but that is conflicting the State’s interest. Psychology is bound to be of a particular political system, educating people only to the aims of the system, and not to his highest destiny. Christianity bestows upon an individual the value of an immortal soul, thus making one’s name significant, as compared to other archaic cultures. P224, 225 Man vs state, society P227 Individualism vs collectivism — individuation as the ideal path forward Immaturity of the reformers P248 If one’s personal disposition leads him to disagree with collective ideas will be neurotic because collective ideas make up the superego, which is part of our make up. Model for personal neuroses P250 Psychology as filling the gap left behind by religion and philosophy