The Neuroscience of Romanticized Love – Part 3: A Jungian Analysis of Psyche Wounds. "The path to one’s healing is a journey to consciousness, and the doorway to this path is … the discovery of one’s psyche wounds", says it clearly. The task is to take a risk and discover one's inner notions of wholeness and romantic love, and then travel the road to self discovery and true happiness.
The human psyche, Dr. Carl Jung said, ever strives for wholeness and healing.
The Neuroscience of Romanticized Love – Part 3: A Jungian Analysis of Psyche Wounds, speaks to our notions of what is and what is not truly authentic love. Read the rest of this outstanding study at the link above.
Jung taught that healing, wholeness and consciousness, whether for an individual or a group, are inborn subconscious strivings. In his words:
“There is in the psyche a process that seeks its own goal no matter what the external factors may be….the almost irresistible compulsion and urge to become what one is.”
The path to one’s healing is a journey to consciousness, and the doorway to this path is … the discovery of one’s psyche wounds.
Notably, the latest neuroscience supports some of Jung’s observations. The subconscious mind can operate outside of conscious awareness, for example, and we do have the ability to heal our brain with self-directed methods of neuroplasticity.
The most painful wound in the Western psyche?
What is a psyche wound? In Jungian terms, it is a wounding of the soul, a word used interchangeably to mean the mind, the spirit, or the innermost self."
"In his analysis, he regards what he terms ‘romantic love’ as “the great wound in the Western psyche.”
This concept, Dr. Johnson holds, is responsible for the “most common and painful wound … in our Western world” and that is the “wound to the masculine psyche,” which is a debilitating wound to the “feeling function” (more often associated with men) that co-exists with a parallel “wound to the feminine psyche,” an impairment of the “doing function” (more often associated with women). Healthy anger is a motivating factor.
According to Dr. Johnson:
http://blogs.psychcentral.com/relationships/2011/06/the-neuroscience-of-romanticized-love-%e2%80%93-part-3-a-jungian-analysis-of-psyche-wounds/“Romantic love not just a form of “love,” it is a whole psychological package — a combination of beliefs, ideals, attitudes, and expectations. These often contradictory ideas coexist in our unconscious minds and dominate our reactions and behavior, without our being aware of them. We have automatic assumptions about what a relationship with another person is, what we should feel, and what we should ‘get out of it.’”
"An awakening of consciousness?
Romanticized love has less to do with love and compassion and more to do with being “in love” with love, a desperate seeking of completeness that only the other can provide. Therefore examining these assumptions, about what a relationship between a man and a woman “should” be, what men and women “should” feel, what each should “get out it” is a necessary undertaking.
These widespread notions are misleading at best, and block men and women from forming the emotionally fulfilling couple relationships they deserve. The prevalence of addictive relating, narcissism and codependency patterns between men and women speaks for itself.
Addictive behaviors are misguided attempts to meet core emotional needs for love and recognition, contribution and life purpose.
In contrast, genuine intimacy is mutually fulfilling, reciprocal and consciously engaging.
- It seeks to see, know and understand the other as a separate and complete being.
- It does not shrink from the pain inherent in knowing and being known intimately.
- It faces core fears as assets, and great teachers.
- It stretches us out of old comfort places into consciousness and healing.
Authentic intimacy and healthy relationships invite us to face our fears and old wounds, as opportunities to awaken the qualities essential to living healthy and happy lives: integrity, balance, empathy, compassion and unconditional acceptance of self and other."
http://blogs.psychcentral.com/relationships/2011/06/the-neuroscience-of-romanticized-love-%e2%80%93-part-3-a-jungian-analysis-of-psyche-wounds/The Neuroscience of Romanticized Love – Part 3: A Jungian Analysis of Psyche Wounds, speaks to our notions of what is and what is not truly authentic love. Read the rest of this outstanding study at the link above.
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