Psychic Epidemic: We are Species Gone Mad(BaltSun/Comment)

[katty]

excerpt from/full commentary at:
http://www.baltimorechronicle.com/061905Levy.html


WE ALL HAVE A GEORGE W. BUSH INSIDE OF US
We could say that George W. Bush, because he has literally become taken over by the Unconscious, is a living embodiment or incarnation of the Unconscious in human form. In other words, Bush is a living, breathing symbol, in full-bodied form, of the state of being unconscious. To recognize that George W. Bush is a symbol reflecting back to us our own unconsciousness is to begin to get insight into and integrate this unconscious part of ourselves.
George W. Bush is a mirrored reflection of the part of ourselves that is unconscious. The inner meaning of the word ‘mirror’ is ‘shadow holder.’ Bush is the embodied reflection, or incarnation, of our own unconscious shadow in living, breathing color.

To quote Jung, “The future of mankind very much depends upon the recognition of the shadow.” This is to say that the future of humankind depends upon enough of us recognizing the shadow that is being revealed to us through the figure of George W. Bush. Recognizing our shadow as it is reflected through Bush is the very act that inoculates us from the negative effects of the collective psychosis. To quote Jung, “If we could see our shadow, we would be immune to any moral and mental infection.”

[skooooo]

1. GW = the Id?

[PuraVidaDreamin]

2. more like the IDiot

[katsy]

4. beat me to it...

great minds and all that.

[katsy]

3. check your spelling...

ID-IOT

Is that what you meant?

:thumbsup:

[skooooo]

5. Well...you do know what the Id is and what it represents?

Both work quite well I think (Id and idiot)

[kikiek]

6. That is very true. I agree 100%.

[stellanoir]

7. well

in the Jungian sense, every single thing he projects onto others, whether it's Kerry, dissenters, Dems, alleged terrorists, and various assorted "evil doers" is nothing beyond what he has done himself to far more often than not a far greater degree.

Yes indeed. Our foreign policy has digressed into nothing more than shadow projection. Not only is it destructive and simplistic, but it's unbelievbly unenlightened.

This was obvious long before 9/11. I am just baffled by the fact that it's gone on for so long now.

Something's gotta give. IMHO

[katty]

11. Agree - amazing how long this has gone on

[Demeter]

8. Sorry--No WAY Is There a Bush Inside Me

I've never had a nightmare as bad as Bush--and now, I don't even have to, to experience the full horror of life in a fascist theocracy run by paranoid psychopaths.

[ixion]

9. very revealing piece

I think it very deftly describes the collective psychosis that holds all of us sway. I was particularly interested in the part about those of us who react to * being as much a part of the system, in essence, promoting the system rejected.

The author, however, has more optimism than I that the alarms thrown by the conscious will be loud enough to bring people back to the Isle of Reason, as it were.

[donsu]

10. bosh! - they are criminals and should be in prison, period

nt

[katty]

12. Amen to that!