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MAKING A CASE FOR THE UNCSCIOUS

MAKING A CASE FOR THE UNCSCIOUS. IN THE BEGINNING WAS THE WORD-AND THE WORD WAS AUM A stands for the state of wakefulness where we experience life through the senses and mind. U stands for the dream state for inward experience

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MAKING A CASE FOR THE UNCSCIOUS

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  1. MAKING A CASE FOR THE UNCSCIOUS • IN THE BEGINNING WAS THE WORD-AND THE WORD WAS AUM • A stands for the state of wakefulness where we experience life through the senses and mind. • U stands for the dream state for inward experience • M is the sound in this state of deep sleep there is no desire and consciousness gathers in upon itself. • But there is a fourth, transcendent state, that of one "who is neither inwardly nor outwardly aware, nor both inward and outward, nor with consciousness infolded on itself.... who is unseen and ineffable, ungraspable, featureless, unthinkable and unnamable" The fourth state (turīya avasthā) corresponds to silence as the other three correspond to AUM. It is the substratum of the other three states. It is referred to as atyanta-shunyata (absolute emptiness).[8]Upanishad 800-400 B. C,(Wikipedia)

  2. EARLY BEGINNINGS • The infant’s acquisition of language • The child is able to symbolize by replacing lived experience with a text or symbols • This phenomenon is made possible by the paradoxical status of a word, a presence made of an absence. • Establishing a self-representation in language, the first person pronoun "I". Without this capacity for self-representation there is no sense of self. • A sense of “Otherness” is developed. “Original alienation” • Experiential self and textual self lead to a divided sense of self out of which the unconscious mind is developed • The unbridgeable distance between text (language) and original lived experience is the realm of unmediated experience is the realm of  the unconscious.

  3. ASKLEPIAN CULTS • Modern spa-based on ritual, purification and suggestion, magic and sorcery. • Conducted by priests. Used fasting, dieting, plants and snakes. • Incubation in the dream chamber. Priest whispered into their ears-thought that the God Asklepios had visited them. • Psychosomatic illnesses may have responded to these techniques.

  4. EARLY BEGINNINGS • EARLY BEGINNINGS a. Intrusion and Extraction b. Possession and Exorcism c. Confession d. Gratification of Frustration e. Ceremonial Healing f. Healing Though Incubation g. Hypnosis h. Magical Healing i. Religious Healing

  5. EARLY BEGINNINGS • Disease TheoryTherapy • Disease-object intrusion Extraction of disease object • Loss of soul To find, bring back and restore the lost soul • Spirit intrusion Exorcism Mechanical Transference 4. Breach of taboo Confession 5. Sorcery Counter magic (The Discovery of the Unconscious-HenriEllenberger)

  6. EARLY BEGINNINGS • Hypnotism and Franz Anton Mesmer and Johann Joseph Gassner • Fluid and Magnetism • Age of Enlightenment • Marquis de Puyse’gur and Magnetism • Spiritism-1840-1850 • Nancy School • Jean-Martin Charcot and Salpetriere School

  7. EARLY BEGINNINGS • PUYSE’GUR-Members of a Masonic Lodge “I believe in the existence within myself of a power. From this belief derives my will to exert it. The entire doctrine of Animal Magnetism is contained in the two words: Believe and Want. I believe that I have the power to set into action the vital principal of my fellow men; I want to make use of it; this is all my science and all my means. Believe and Want. Sirs, and you will do as much as I.

  8. EARLY BEGINNINGS • Disease TheoryPeriod of EmergenceGeographic Center • Disease-object Paleolithic Old World • Soul loss Paleolithic Siberia • Spirit intrusion End of Pleistocene Western Asia • Breach of taboo Relatively recent 3 centers simultaneously

  9. EARLY BEGINNINGS • PRIMITIVE HEALINGSCIENTIFIC THERAPY 1. The healer is much more 1. The therapist is specialist than a physician; he is the among many others. foremost personality of his social group. 2. The healer exerts his action 2. The therapist applies specific primarily through his personality. techniques in an impersonal way. 3. The healer is preponderantly 3. There is a dichotomy between A psychosomatician; he treats physical and psychic therapy. The many physical diseases by accent in psychiatry is on the psychological techniques. physical treatment of mental illness.

  10. EARLY BEGINNINGS 4. The healer’s training 4. The training is purely rational and is long and exacting, does not take into consideration and often includes the personal, medical, or emotional the experience of a problems of the physician. severe emotional dis- ease that he has to overcome in order to be able to heal other people. 5. The healer belongs to a school 5. The therapist acts on the basis of that has its own teachings and a unified medicine, which is a traditions diverging from those branch of science and is not a of other schools. teaching ( The Discovery of the Unconscious-Henri Ellenberger)

  11. EARLY BEGINNINGS • Renaissance and the birth of Imaginatio. • The ego images=fear and anxiety • The images from the Self are not fear based and are not always personal but archetypal.

  12. IMPORTANT EARLY FIGURES (CHRONILOGICALLY) • Franz Anton Mesmer 1734-1815 • Amand-Marie-Jacques DE Chastenet, Marquis de Puyse’gur 1751-1825 • JustinusKerner 1786-1862 • Gustav Theodor Fechner 1801-1887 • Johann JakobBachofen 1815-1887 • Jean-Martin Charcot 1825-1893 • Joseph Breuer 1842-1925 • Bertha Pappenheim (Anna O) 1869-1936

  13. IMPORTANT EARLY FIGURES (cont) • Theodore Flournoy 1854-1920 • Moritz Benedikt 1835-1920 • Richard Von Krafft-Ebing 1840-1903 • Charles Richet 1850-1935 • Eugene Bleuer 1857-1939 • Adolf Meyer 1866-1950 • Pierre Janet 1859-1947

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