Reality as Medicine
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- Опубликовано: 8 фев 2025
- The nature of reality may be a complex philosophical question, but from a psychological viewpoint, reality is largely a question of adaptation to the truths of our inner and outer worlds. How well do we manage psychic life and the electric bill? Science fiction writer Philip Dick pithily states: “Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.” Multiple realities challenge us. We live in shared social realities, from embracing niceties to being steeped in beliefs and a need to belong. We also may access the objective realities of verifiable facts and scientific data. And we experience subjective realities of emotion, intuition, and unconscious influences. We can feel our feelings, differentiate between levels of reality, and choose which to apply to a particular situation or decision. Unclouded acceptance of reality is medicinal.
Here’s the dream we analyzed:
“I found myself somehow back living in the attic of a property I managed years ago, an old parish house. I was very comfortable with this and glad to be there. A high school sweetheart came to visit unexpectedly, and we fell into our old way of being together rather quickly. We had been very close when young, and in real life, we maintained contact for years, though at the time of this dream, we had not spoken for a long time. I was excited at the prospect of rekindling our relationship anew as adults and was a little nervous. She asked where she could smoke a cigarette, and I suggested the roof. It was a warm, inviting night, and although I had quit smoking decades ago, I felt young again and accepted her offer of a cigarette. We were on a flat roof with a parapet. She went to sit on the parapet wall and purposefully leaned back, intentionally flinging herself off of the roof. There was a dreadful moment of suspended time before I heard her body hit the ground many floors below. Terrified, I started running down the flights of stairs toward ground level. At one of the landings, I encountered the building’s plumber, an older man I had known for years who was working on some old piping. I started to tell him what just happened, but he knew already, and with incredible calm, told me there was nothing to be done and to just forget about it. This hardly registered as I continued my frantic flight down the stairs, only to discover that the stairwell never ended or that I was somehow lost, even though there was only one way down. The further I went, lights were burnt out and the steps increasingly irregular, forcing me to slow down and test each step."
REFERENCES:
C.G. Jung. The Function of Religious Symbols. Collected Works, Volume 18.
William Glasser, M.D. Reality Therapy: A New Approach to Psychiatry.
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Congratulations on 200 episodes! I’ve listened to every single one and am deeply grateful for your insights. I studied psychology in undergrad and unfortunately the current zeitgeist largely discards psychoanalysis and jungian analysis. This podcast opened me and a friend up to this beautiful school of thought
Thanks for your nuanced discussion on psychosis
You guys hit the nail on the head. This is why Jungs work is becoming more popular. He noticed and made others aware of inner processes which have been active since the beginning of time presumably, but he did it in a way that was outside of the boundaries of any one religious system or dogma. Truly, he laid the groundwork for empirical mysticism, which will become vital as we move forward.
As one who feels plagued with horrific dreams I thank you for shedding volumes of light on the subject. What a pleasure it is to be able to access your knowledge and of course Jung’s knowledge on this and so many other subjects. Thank you❤
This episode is so on point for me. After a year of therapy I got more in touch with my inner world but atm have big problems to differentiate between it and reality, to the point I have not talked since a month to my new boss Becouse I believe she rejected me alredy where it is my mother complex totally influencing my perception of reality 🤦🏼♂️its pretty scary experiance and one thats hard to move on from, undermining my self-trust.
Very useful. Thank you!
In the country he met his insticts, kind of leaving his conscious, wordly, urban life behind. Maybe he has to re-evaluate his relationship to women and wants more instinctual/intuitional/ earthy stuff. The body. Downstairs is the unconscious. Smoking is ' air". Not tangible. Or air is "poisoned" with the smoke.
🙋♂️ Mistr Putin I pray for you Prayer is not taking train & reach the distance nor counting how many words did you spend Personally evry day I live the Present and God whos see but my Past is forgiven my Future is going to build fay by day !!