Behind
the "Shithole" statement......I'm confident that he lives
with such 'self' confidence. (of successfully talking himself
out of the Shithole statement and any other false or demeaning
statement he makes.)
Being
unconsciously in the grip of archetypal energies inflates ones
ego. It is the feeling of truly being God. Most of us with
reasonably strong egos have experienced, to lesser extent but
no less real, this irrational state of mind and recognize
it it as a weakness and aberration.
I
sense Mr Trump is under a strong spiritual energy that
has over taken the ordinary ego long ago. I suspect he believes
he has' found God' and believes it is himself. This is no
exaggeration. This should not be expected to change for he shows no
signs of resisting it. Instead he personally thrives in his
invincible ''god almightiness'.
It is
such an inspiring thing that those in his presence are
easily pulled into this archetypal energy. So they react to him
as if to a god not realizing what has captured them.
This
is no different psychologically than the experience of
ancient gods in pre Christian times.. This dynamic is different
and stronger than any rationality. Reason will always fail and is no
match to it.
Those
around him, and regular citizens, who see this as a national
danger will need more than a strong opposing political
orientation to not be bamboozled by it. Senator Durbin seemed able to
make a fairly rational ,maybe hopefully more than political,
description of the infamous 'shithole' meeting.
Those
of us concerned, from his campaign till now, about the dangers
of trump idealism need to guard against becoming simply the other
polarizing national energy around him. If not we become no
more objective than Fox friends, just the other emotional
based extreme. That is not enough for a clarifying , healing or
consciousness raising response. It only promotes another unrealistic
fantasy if it brings no more than polarity to the situation. To rest in one pole of a cultural or personal polarized situation is to give up finding a middle healing path. Any polarity position only sees what it looks for after so long. So
called 'Trump Resistors', like myself, are in that danger now.
CG
Jungs clarification of the very real archetypal energies
can be of much help in having a suitable response to any
idealism. And not simply becoming the opposite emotional polarizing
response to the archetype such as has been externalized in
front of us via the Trump persona. Reasoning and emotionalism
are both, even together, insufficient.
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You removed this from Facebook? In any case, I couldn't post my comment. I wanted you to get it.
So, I wrote:
Thank you for this post. I liked it, especially, "It is such an inspiring thing that those in his presence are easily pulled into this archetypal energy. So they react to him as if to a god not realizing what has captured them... This is no different psychologically than the experience of ancient gods in pre Christian times.. This dynamic is different and stronger than any rationality." I would love to read posts by you explicitly on this topic.
Thank You very much.There are similar essays on this same blog. Scroll down and click 'web version.' You will see other blog posts on the right.
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