Carl Jung's Genius Philosophy

What makes humans distinct from other animals? Biologically we have similar hardware to other animals like chimps and gorillas. Arms, legs, eyes, ears, brain etc. We also have the same operating system of basic instincts as other animals that tells us what to do. We instinctively search for food, find a mate to procreate with and seek the company of others. So if the hardware and operating system are the same or very similar with our closest relatives like apes and monkeys and even mammals, then what makes us human? The answer lies in the software or our psychology but more specifically in our ability to tell stories.
Carl Jung, the Swiss genius psychoanalyst looked at humans from different cultures and continents and discovered something extraordinary. We all have very similar myths and stories, religious and non-religious.
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00:00 Intro
02:10 Life
15:07 Core Ideas
20:50 archetypes
25:40 personality types
27:16 Persona vs Shadow
32:25 anima and animus
33:43 10 Lessons
33:50 Lesson 1
35:50 Lesson 2
37:50 Lesson 3
39:27 Lesson 4
40:35 Lesson 5
41:37 Lesson 6
43:25 Lesson 7
45:23 Lesson 8
47:10 Lesson 9
48:25 Lesson 10
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I have three general rules for living. These are general purpose heuristics: Rule 1: We "humans" are in fact storytelling and story-driven animals, technically mammals. "Humanity" (the idea of being human) is a deeply embedded egocentric story (conviction) of ourselves. Rule 2: In any situation or decision, always consider doing nothing. Non-action is not lack of choice; it's a valid option. Rule 3: Learn to like to be wrong in order to grow and be less wrong with time. Simply accepting sometimes being wrong isn't going far enough to avoid unconsciously falling into bias. The psychological desire to be right (validation) is just ego and impedes growth.

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Regarding his 'miraculous recovery' he was the one who cured his neurosis when doctors thought he had epilepsy, this is from his autobiography Memories, Dreams, Reflections: "A boy gave me a shove that knocked me off my feet. I fell, striking my head against the curbstone so hard that I almost lost consciousness. For about half an hour afterward I was a little dazed. At the moment I felt the blow the thought flashed through my mind: “Now you won’t have to go to school any more.” I was only half unconscious, but I remained lying there a few moments longer than was strictly necessary, chiefly in order to avenge myself on my assailant.” .... "From then on I began to have fainting spells whenever I had to return to school, and whenever my parents set me to doing my homework. For more than six months I stayed away from school, and for me that was a picnic. I was free, could dream for hours, be anywhere I liked, in the woods or by the water, or draw.” .... “Above all, I was able to plunge into the world of the mysterious. To that realm belonged trees, a pool, the swamp, stones and animals, and my father’s library. But I was growing more and more away from the world, and had all the while faint pangs of conscience. I frittered away my time with loafing, collecting, reading, and playing. But I did not feel any happier for it; I had the obscure feeling that I was fleeing from myself.” .... “The doctors no longer know what is wrong with him. They think it may be epilepsy. It would be dreadful if he were incurable. I have lost what little I had, and what will become of the boy if he cannot earn his own living?” I was thunderstruck. This was the collision with reality. “Why, then, I must get to work!” I thought suddenly. From that moment on I became a serious child. I crept away, went to my father’s study, took out my Latin grammar, and began to cram with intense concentration. After ten minutes of this I had the finest of fainting fits. I almost fell off the chair, but after a few minutes I felt better and went on working. “Devil take it, I’m not going to faint,” I told myself, and persisted in my purpose. This time it took about fifteen minutes before the second attack came. That, too, passed like the first. “And now you must really get to work!” I stuck it out, and after an hour came the third attack. Still I did not give up, and worked for another hour, until I had the “feeling that I had overcome the attacks. Suddenly I felt better than I had in all the months before. And in fact the attacks did not recur. From that day on I worked over my grammar and other schoolbooks every day. A few weeks later I returned to school, and never suffered another attack, even there. The whole bag of tricks was over and done with! That was when I learned what a neurosis is.”

[@libornovotny9637]

Thank you Very much for this piece of his biography.

[@swami15]

Fiction Beast: I've been reading Jung, and others writings about Jung, for several years and have not always felt that I had a clear understanding of what he means. Your concise descriptions (and even the graphic pictorials) aid significantly in gaining a better understanding of his ideas. For this I am very grateful. Thank you.

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By far the best Jung Story I have heard ! Acompanied with great Art. I read Jungs Self biography when I was 16 and now, at 52, I understand More. Still walking the path....

[@libornovotny9637]

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[@alainaaugust1932]

Interesting turn, moving from the storytelling of great novelists to the psychologist, Jung. Trying to prove his thesis that the great stories lead to the archetypes? That our stories are one key way the human mind reveals its archetypes?😊 For the sake of many who have or will view this, I call attention to a central error in your interpretation: Jung did not go into psychosis in 1913. There is as much difference between psychosis and active imagination as between water and air. Both have oxygen. Does that make them the same? Yes, Jung FEARED his actively imagined visualizations meant psychosis. His genius (which you correctly note) is precisely that he stayed rational throughout his experiences. Neitzsche, who you repeatedly mention, did not. Jung confronted his own deepest self, stayed himself, grew from the experience, systematized and rationally explained his experiences. That’s not only genius but courage. Jung told us NOT to do as he did but to find each one’s own way. I interpret this as meaning using his rational findings as tools for one’s own inner journey. In my experience from working with thousands of souls, the greatest, most powerful archetypes to tackle first on that journey are the Anima and Animus. Women, ask yourself: How destructively have I expressed/not expressed my Animus? Men, ask yourself: How destructively have I expressed/not expressed my Anima? Ruthlessly admit your projections. Do that and you will have begun. Blessings all.

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[@onenewworldmonkey]

Extremely well written. I live alone in the woods. I am a hunter who has been using primitive tools for over 40 years and I have my own philosophy about how things work. For over 20 years the dominant turkey of the valley gets up at the same time. He collects his hens and walks north. He returns at the same time. He made me think that memory is inherited. It is not a coincidence that the most common fear of humans (who once lived in the trees) is the fear of falling. As a hunter I know how many strategies prey use to survive. As with all top predators I must know the wind direction, the lay of the land, the common movements, the escape routes, etc. All predators must solve these problems. Prey only need to lower their heads into grass, which is why predators (dogs, eagles, lions) are smarter than prey (rabbits, deer, chickens). We took this necessary problem solving to new heights like a giraffe took leaf eating. If you could not solve the problem that was the ice age you died out (as did the poor problem solving). If you are reading this your ancestors solved wars, plagues, famines, habitat extremes, etc. Everything from making fire to the Gutenberg bible is a solution to a problem. Problem solving drove our evolution such that everything you own is a solution to a problem or helps to solve problems. When you watch a movie you are watching how others problem solve. Your clothes solve problems, your car, the wheels on your car, the door on your car, the cement walkway from your car to the house, the front door on your house, the light switch on the wall, etc. You even solve problems when you are dead with life insurance. You cannot help it. It all comes from wanting to eat every day. We took the one method of procuring food to a height never reached.

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Really astute comment. Makes me grateful others think so. Do you eat the hunted at least though? I personally cant stand hunting as a sport but whatever, interesting points you made.

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Hey Fiction beast I would love to see a video easy on what makes a great story. For example the diffrent literary fiction books, how some are trash and other are gems.

[@lilyghassemzadeh]

Thank YOU very much. I think that a major benefit of storytelling is that it helps us separate ourselves from the fears and anxieties, just like alcohol does. Therefore, the same mental capacity that makes us worry about things that may never happen (anxiety) allows us to escape into the world of pleasant imagination (stories).

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The YT site Humble U explains The Red Book, the black one, too. Not saying I agree entirely with that author’s interpretation but it’s a good effort. Might prompt you to take the cellophane off. Blessings.

[@Kronic1Chillz]

I wonder why Hinduism isn't given to much credit for Carl Jung's Genius Philosophy. The west has cleverly ensured to not give credit to any Hinduism which Carl Jung was deeply influenced by from his travels to India.

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Thank you so much. You have been a great inspiration and influence on me. Philosophy, books, writers I love. I have finished C.G Jung's "The Red Book" Liber Novus edited and introduction by Sonu Shamdasani. Jung contributed more than Sigmund Freud, I agree totally.

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Yes… we a species of story tellers. Joseph Campbell’s interviews introduced me to Carl Jung back in the 1980s.

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We all are intrinsically the same seek the company of others, imagine being shunned no matter what you do. Painful feeling, it truly is.

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[@sachieasamizu4809]

I believe learning language is a human’s innate ability and through storytelling is the most effective way, but not convinced that story itself is innate human nature. (I hope I didn’t misunderstand Jung’s theory. Maybe I’ll read his essay that sits on my shelf). Great video as expected.

[@respectedcow1490]

I doubt storytelling would be the explanation, it might help but it's not the most effective way , because most of the day infants would be simply listening to their parent's languages and learning that way. Just talking and listening would do. There's no need to correlate it specifically to storytelling.

[@mehmeteldemir4535]

It can be an argument though. I think, the basics images about surviving, hunting, transzendenz and magic must be naturally similar. For Jung, who was born in a religious family and who wants to believe there must be a difference between human and other animals which is coded in our genes was his Theorie a solution.

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[@michaelryswyk6171]

Wonderful video! If the collective unconscious is the software, shouldn’t the metaphor be extended such that the myths, symbols, stories are the programming language? Software may be slightly different and contextual but all are written using the same programming language??

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[@AnonymousBosch3158]

The song 46 & 2 of Tool is based on Jung's ideas too.

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This collective unconscious memory could just be genuine metaphysical memory

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could you please include your sources, thank you.

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22:29 is it a painting made by E.Munch or E.L.Kirchner? Thank you in advance!

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the fairytale forest by munch

[@libornovotny9637]

​@@Fiction_BeastThank you! You are fast! - and Bravo for this Gem. The explanations, Illustrations etc.. are exceptionally well Made! I learned a Lot of "News" about C.G.Jung his ideas/Theories and his friends, acquaintancies and teachers. Again: bravo! And thank you. Of course subscribed. You are a real scholar in the best sense.

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Awesome video! But it's not pronounced [Görthe], it's [Göte]

[@johnterry6541]

The problem here is that the devil also thinks that the he is the hero and the other one is the devil. Many of us who think we are the moral beings think the same way about people we disagree with. Who is to say you are the hero.

[@homefrontforge]

Epigenetics is truly genetic memory...but not the only type. Nor does it explain every thing.

[@Fiction_Beast]

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This is a bad voice, but carl jung is the best, forever and ever! Absteining makes us different!

[@Kronic1Chillz]

I wonder why Hinduism isn't given to much credit for Carl Jung's Genius Philosophy. The west has cleverly ensured to not give credit to any Hinduism which Carl Jung was deeply influenced by from his travels to India.

[@Fiction_Beast]

You got a good point! Schopenhauer acknowledges his debt to upanishads.

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you are absolutely right I would say it is mostly because of jealousy

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"HUMBLY SPEAKING I HAVE PROVEN TO BE A SPIRITUAL PRODIGY.THIS IS A FACT."(14)(GENIUS)

[@gordonpepper1400]

Individualization begins with the advent of verbal language and is actualized with the invention of writing, and in particular alphabetical writing. Story telling is a by-product of language and, by itself, has no relationship with the concept of the individual.

[@Metaphix]

It's kind of funny that a smart guy like Freud was so immature as to disown a friend who he called his adopted son because of a difference of professional opinion. Freud must have been massively arrogant and somehow unable to see or correct this in himself despite being so well regarded as a scholar of the mind lol

[@msmacmac1000]

I have to imagine that, at her marriage to Carl’s father, Carl’s mother was healthy and happy.( she hit all the required boxes to be a “ good wife,” eh?) so, what happened to her? My surmise: Mr Jung was emotionally abusive to her. As in, He treated her with intermittent reinforcement: “ now I like you, now I don’t.” I surmise he used the Silent Treatment with her. And shaming.

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[@jfffjl]

21:08 Archetype is not derived from the word archaeology but instead shares a common origin in the ancient Greek for primitive or first. Just sayin'.

[@Fiction_Beast]

Did i say that? You're correct, they share the same archaic origin

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Seek greatness, not love can be dangerous when greatness replaces the pain of life, the fabric of life's lessons/training with authority/materialism. Where EQ replaces conscience, the Red Lines between darkness and Light. EQ may not necessary be bad when it has the direction of rationality & conscience. JamesWhiskey

[@Dino_Medici]

The concept of the personal unconscious vs the collective u conscious is fucking wiiiiiiild

[@arshad6333]

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[@ronwiesel5120]

I really enjoyed this video🥰 However, I would recommend that you read more about Dionysus. The impression that you (or Carl Jung) give(s) here ist very much a strawman which would habe been put forth by the romans oder greek tradionalists. The "Ecstacy" of Dionysus is very much about the beautific vison and the like, and has nothing to do with getting drunk on alcohol. The cult did split and there were way too many excesses. But those are as close to the cult of Dionysus as evangelists fundamentalists are to Christianity. The connection between Jesus and Dionysus that John saliently gives in his gospel is pretty remarkeable. I would argue, that Dionysus is closer to Jesus than to Diogenes

[@Dreddwinner]

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[@josephmascia401]

So, might we also say that archetypes are sewn into our jeans?

[@ayliea3974]

Adam and Eve ate fruit from the tree whose fruit bore the knowledge of good and evil. Before the fall, there was only good.

[@ericephemetherson3964]

Second discrepancy; the garden of Eden was on Earth. It was not some place in cosmos. So, why is there the saying that Adam and Eve were exiled to earth? They were on earth.

[@Fiction_Beast]

For some reason I thought somewhere in heavens

[@alainaaugust1932]

Eric, the Adam and Eve story taken as a whole is an example of Jungian “splitting.” Either we humans are “all in” in some paradise or “cast out.” I believe Jung would say that paradise is here, now, when we cast out our unique, internal demons.

[@bellezavudd]

Carl was always a Jung boy. 🤔

[@thenickgillshow]

@3:00 That hairline though

[@Mantistoboggan4684]

Looks like it's photoshopped haha

[@DrJoySmithMaxwell]

Tatemae 建前 means public face & is made up of the kanji characters 建 built 前 in front of, as in the face we have built to wear in front of others. It's a social face for proper/expected conduct in public & is part of saving face.

[@trainer333]

What if it’s not a collective memory but memories of your own past lives. It’s pretty much whatever you want to believe for it’s source. Non of it can be proven.

[@LittleJohnnyBrown]

Jung never described the idea of Collective Unconscious as "memories of our ancient ancestors". This is a gross, "magical thinking" kind of interpretation of what an archetype is. Archetype is not a memory of your grand dad. It's a number of events that is bound to happen due to how nature is structured around it. It is rooted in the law of physics and is connected to material world. Noone is born with memories

[@MartyMcwhy]

The analogy to computers goes far

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[@sachieasamizu4809]

I’m sorry to be fastidious, but ‘tatemae’ means ‘before’ the construction and originated from an old story of a builder who covered a mistake he made on the day before construction, and killed his honest wife for fear of being revealed.

[@Fiction_Beast]

Thanks for correcting me. I think it’s apt for what Jung is trying to say about the facade or shopfront we all put out.

[@sachieasamizu4809]

@@Fiction_Beast It’s not really a mistake. Tatemae accidentally can also mean ‘front of a house’ so probably most japanese think as you did. Jung is enjoyable to read by the way. Human mind is a bottomless pit.

[@ericephemetherson3964]

First off at 6:17, Eve did not take any bite of an apple. There is no mention of an apple in the bible. The bible specifies a fruit. No apple there.

[@bellezavudd]

Sure, but that is really beside the point. It doesnt matter if it's an apple, a pear, a pomegranate, or even a worm. It could be anything. The point is in the action of tasting that which has been forbidden. Culturally it has merely become known as an apple.

[@ericephemetherson3964]

@@bellezavudd OK. The bible is a myth anyway.

[@bellezavudd]

@@ericephemetherson3964 " The bible is a myth anyway." I agree. It's a story. Unfortunately there are cultural wars based on extreme beliefs from those insisting everyone should believe those stories are history . But regardless of that , the bulk of what Jung is referring to when describing the contents of the collective unconcious is STORIES in one form or another. Whether they are myth or history isn't as important as how culturally powerful and influencial they are. The stories that dominate societies for hundreds, even thousands of years. And the story of Adam, Eve, the serpent, and the tree of forbidden fruit is one of those stories.

[@ericephemetherson3964]

@@bellezavudd I agree. I have read lots of Jung. But the collective unconscious kind of tells me what some ancestor of mine thought 100 000 years ago.

[@bellezavudd]

@@ericephemetherson3964 That sounds interesting. Could be. We're a much older species than just what we know as the beginning of history. Our ideas of history only go back as far as we've discovered, so far. Most of it may never be discovered. Some stories have undoubtedly been LONG forgotten since they told long before writing was invented, so they weren't written down. But they might still reside in our unconcious.

[@nicolasrosat5485]

Merci !

[@Fiction_Beast]

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[@Trizzer89]

Freud is creepy as hell. Thanks goodness Jung was better

[@noneofurbusiness5223]

Jung *never* finished working on his *own* shadow. 2 or 3 of his 1st male patients committed suicide.