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First stage of hero’s journey—usually someone dies—separation, sense of destiny, characters in conflict, descent to unconscious begins.
Dealing with shadow—symbolic death—underworld—trials, tests, labors.
Reintegration, revivification—return with the boon.
Jungian Psychology II—Helene Shulman Lorenz:
Living at the Edges of Chaos
[Helene Shulman]
Falling out of current structure—separation—shadow, rejected from conscious self-image as dissonant or irrelevant—dissociative ego—causality—frozen.
Chaos—antistructure—social experimentation—regressive ego—collective unconscious—turbulence, forming and reforming, compensates one-sidedness—indestructible energy.
Reincorporation, anima/animus—egalitarian, communitarian ego—relational, pulls into connection with people, searches for connectivity.
Post Freudian Psychology—Allen Bishop: Learning Process
[Melanie Klein / Wilfred Bion]
Small psychic catastrophe—going to pieces begins—old structures do not work anymore.
Feeling utter helplessness—massively projecting—chaotic state of upheaval—torn free of old beliefs that once were anchored, dismantling of previous views.
Reintrojection and reintegration of new information and reincorporating new ideas.
Jungian Psychology I—Glen Slater: Job Archetype
[C.G. Jung/ Edward Edinger]
Wounding or suffering of ego as a result of encounter with greater personality.
Perseverance of ego which endures ordeals and persists in scrutinizing the experience in search of its meaning.
Divine revelation by which ego is rewarded with some insight into transpersonal psyche.
Introduction to Depth Psychology—Helene Lorenz: Rupture Nepantla and Restoration
[Gloria Anzaldua/Helene Lorenz]
Break out of old habits, identities—death—movement to antistructure, out of old enviromnment, flying apart, disintegration—interrupts normal passage.
Pulls towards unconscious and confrontation with the shadow, boundaries break down, in-between, defamiliarization, reconfiguring identity.
Reintegration of missing pieces (creative) or sewing pieces back together (normative), new structures possible through dialog—new containers.
Jungian Psychology I—Glen Slater: Individuation Process
[C. G. Jung]
Unacknowledged parts come into view, old ways do not work anymore, compensates ego’s one-sidedness-- experiences, emotions, memories, feelings that have been rejected by habitual attitude of consciousness.
Cracked open ego— psychically enduring rug being pulled out from under you—Job’s suffering, tension of opposites, transcendent function constellated.
Union of opposites, integration of complexes—returning to instinctive way of being into a cultivated life, bringing instinct back to civilization—becoming more authentic—relationship between small personal ego and greater personality.
Depth Psychology and Culture—Randi Kristiansen:
Rites of Initiation
[Arnold van Gennep/Victor Turner]
Forced separation from families—death of old identity, separation from old status, cannot get to next place without leaving the first, surrender, let go—challenge to existing order, breach, gerontomorphic.
Relational, pedomorphoic, communitas—threshold—suspended ordinary life, new material can come in—beginners mind, special place.
Return to the group and bring the message—new status.
Mystery Traditions—David Ulansey:
Shamanism and The Mysteries
[Mircea Eliade]
Death of old identity, initiation process as technology of transformation, letting go of old way of being.
Go from one stage to another—sacred space, sense of boundedness—what goes on at this moment illuminated by mystery traditions, something extraordinary happens—kairotic time, open to possibilities.
Bring extraordinary experience back with you—new perspective, new status, new identity—solution to problems revealed.
Homi Bhaba’s hangout, communitas, self begins to morph into something not yet named—chaos and order intermixed.
Tom Robbins Territory—purple, play, and union of opposites, leaving the land of liminality, staircase to the supramental.
Cartography and Creativity
As previously discussed, in the methodology chapter regarding heuristic research, my writing process essentially mirrors the birth process. Knowing this, I am able to be more comfortable in the very uncomfortable middle stages which occur after I finish all of the reading and before I am finished writing. I know that after the wonderful Neptunian feeling of swimming in information, I must get down to business and actually write something and Saturnian limitations and structuring woes beset me. Although it feels like I am in hell and I am totally frustrated, I know that I am just in the second matrix BPM II, and sooner or later I will move on.
As I struggle to make meaning of the material and try to figure out how to actually put it together, it is often chaotic. I am in a liminal space and no new structure has yet emerged. As a result, I often go off on tangents and I end up circling around different subjects and follow my fascinations, iterating around the attractors of my subject. During this Plutonic time, although I am often very anxious and confused, I know I am in the third matrix, BPM III.
I know that if I stick with it, there will be light at the end of the tunnel, as I reach the fourth matrix, BPM IV. Eventually I will gain some insight, some order will come out of all the chaos. I will see things in a new light, reaping the Uranian benefits of the previous death-rebirth struggle, and characteristically Uranian, I am often very surprised at the whole process, because it tends to self-organize in the unconscious. Thanks to Grof’s cartography, instead of fighting against this process, I am able to relax into even the depressing Saturnian and chaotic Plutonic phases, as I await the Uranian aha’s of the fourth matrix and the project is born.
I have learned recently that Poincaré’s process was similar: “Poincaré told his audience that on reflection, his patterns of scientific discovery seemed to be one of initial frustration, confusion, and mental chaos followed by unexpected insight.” (Briggs & Peat, 1989, p. 192)
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