#homeostatic

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[seolf]

If you have grown up with a self-centered parent (and I’ll warn you, the parents who say they are selfless and consistently remind you about everything they are doing for you are the most self centered), because they aren’t really concerned with your needs, you inevitably have to fight for your own self-hood as well. You cannot conceptualize of a way to merge; you can only conceptualize of being swallowed by something else ... [C]loseness is the primary priority in both of your [lives]. This creates the only true safety in relationship. You cannot hurt something that you take as part of yourself without hurting yourself. But not being able to conceptualize of this ... we avoid merging ... We fight to keep ourselves separate but in relationship. We cannot risk the trust of giving ourselves to the other person and them giving themselves to us ... We are trapped in Ego and society supports it.

Teal, Swan. (2019). What is your definition of love?  via TUMBLR USER smelsea’s POST. 

[seolf]

FIGURES 3.4 & 3.6
 The western v. Chinese concepts of the self. Scollon & Scollon (2011:63) adaptation of Hsu (1983): 
“Rugged Individualism Reconsidered: essays in psychological anthropology.”

[seolf]

[V]iolence does not consist so much in injuring and annihilating persons as in interrupting their continuity, making them play roles in which they no longer recognize themselves, making them betray not only commitments but their own substance, making them carry out actions that will destroy every possibility for action.

Lévinas, Emmanuel. (1979). Totality and Infinity: An Essay on Exteriority. via TUMBLR USER hours’ TEXT.

[seolf]

Anthropologists have often described what happens to a primitive society when its spiritual values are exposed to the impact of modern civilization. Its people lose the meaning of their lives, their social organization disintegrates, and they themselves morally decay. We are now in the same condition. But we have never really understood what we have lost … We have stripped all things of their mystery and luminosity; nothing is holy any longer.

Jung. (1964). Approaching the unconscious. In Man and his symbols. 

[seolf]

I began to understand that the goal of psychic development is the self. There is no linear evolution; there is only a circumambulation of the self.

Jung. (1963). Memories, Dreams, Reflections. †196.  via TUMBLR USER thepeelingrenoir’s QUOTE.

[seolf]

What I find most intriguing and still most viable about Jung's archetype theory is Jung's floundering but also quite brilliant attempts at developing a language of complexity and speaking about phenomena like emergence, attractors in complex dynamic systems, and self-organization.

Koeske, Matt. (2012). Re: The solar phallus, reply #2.

[seolf]

This is what horror tells us—that in the collective unconscious of all women are psychic wounds so deep and raw that even to brush against them is to become a conduit for their primal violence … We self-censor our every reaction, debating endlessly with ourselves over which thoughts are permitted and which are forbidden or unclean … Perhaps that’s why, after so long spent boiling within us under such terrible and unrelenting pressure, women’s desires hold such power to fascinate and terrify.

Felker-Martin, Gretchen. (2018). The Cursed Interior: Women in Horror. VRVBlog. via TUMBLR USER chalamets’ PHOTOSET.