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unconscious Mind

"Up and at em' early I dived into Jung, Man and his Symbols again, the best way for me to master anything. The unconscious mind fascinates me to a tickle and serious grin."

I am a bit neurotic but not to a fault but of discovery! It is okay today! It is simply my unconscious mind seeking validation in my conscious life.
Jung writes, "..the unconscious mind is concerned with "moral" injunctions. (That’s me!)
The unconscious mind insinuates itself upon the woke mind. That is where dreams and neurosis(complexes) come into play. In dreams, the unconscious mind has free range and in complexes i.e. neurosis, exaggerated expression. Jung writes,

 ..critics assume that the unconscious and all it's subtle manifestations belong solely to the sphere of psychopathology. They consider any expression of the unconscious as something neurotic or psychotic, which has nothing to do with the normal mental state. But neurotic phenomena are by no means the products exclusively of disease. They are in fact no more than pathological exaggerations of normal occurrences; it is only because they are exaggerations that they are more obvious than their normal counterparts. Hysterical symptoms can be observed in all normal persons, but they are so slight that they usually pass unnoticed.
Simply put, it is there to express itself and hint to "you" exactly what's going on within and without rather sleeping or woke. Psychic if you please. The behavior is there.
Jung explains, "Consciousness naturally resist anything unconscious and unknown. Explaining how one can arise from a horrid or splendid dream but can not recall all or none of it's events.

"...primitive folk of what anthropologist call "misoneism," a deep and superstitious fear of novelty, primitives manifest all the reactions of the wild animal against untoward events. But "civilized" man reacts to new ideas in much the same way, erecting psychological barriers to protect himself from the shock of facing something new. This can easily be observed in an individuals reaction to his own dreams when obliged to admit a surprising thought."

Myopic thinking is a limiting, needless to say concerning the unseen.
I am going to interject a personal tid-bit.
I had an interesting episode with my 10-year old. She and I were walking down Eastern Parkway and she asked me about a mutual acquaintance and I responded with a truthful motherly answer. She went silent, thus I asked her did she have anymore questions about the subject and upon answering her bag of fries dropped from her hands to the ground! She looked up at me in astonishment and disappointment. That's when I pondered verbally, "I wonder what happened within that nanosecond in your mind that triggered your motor skills to no longer communicate that you were holding a bag in your hand?" and she responded with a inquisitive look on her face, "That is weird. I wonder too?"


Maybe because 10-year olds drop things or maybe it was her feelings manifesting themselves unconsciously; mental stimuli followed by a physical reaction..


It is in the smallest of things that the greatest and most profound answers and wisdom rest; not in the grandiose! That's to obvious! It is that which is for whatever reason, uncommunicative within us. Let us make contact!