Reply To: CT Psychoanalysis

[Juan E. Sandoval]

CT being based on Jungian typology, could this be a quantified and modern variation on the same message?

Yes, in a sense if CT is right about its core premises, then it would be a more high-resolution explanation of what is actually involved in raising functions into consciousness in a person's individuation journey. I do think dream analysis and other psychoanalytical tools are complementary here. What CT would add is an understanding of what the nature of the daimon (which is trying to rise to consciousness) is, and what its core message is. This could accelerate the process of integration, since we would have an understanding of the person's type and what function is disguised as the dream figure.

Notes on the Shadow?

The shadow is an interesting topic, and the way I would contextualize it in the above posts is that the difference between the daimon and muse (it's the same thing at core) is whether or not the ego sees it as part of the self or not; hence the felt "otherness" of the daimon. And that is essentially a description of the shadow, as the shadow is all that which the ego denies.
Thus, an unconscious function that is also disassociated from the ego will manifest as a daimon; a violent force threatening the ego and acting with seeming autonomy. It's really quite the way @faerie was describing the emergence of her Te before it integrated, and how she'd have sudden radical "bursts" that seemed uncalled for. It's also exactly the way Bera currently describes her Ni, and indeed calling it a shadow makes sense. (Bera maybe there's a call-to-action here?)
To the degree that a function's elements are not recognized as belonging to the self, they are shadow elements. But a function can be unconscious and yet not be "shadow", and that is the muse form. The muse remains numinous, as does everything in the unconscious, but it appears to us as a gateway towards the divine; as a channel or vessel for some grand contact with purpose, value and truth. This is seen in Ekhart Tolle's elevation of "presence" (a mythologization of Se presence), and in all the aforementioned (Musk, Peterson, Tolkien, Rowling, Tibees, etc)

Spoiler

On a technical note, this is not to say that the shadow is only comprised of those functions that are unconscious and denied ego affiliation -- as the shadow is an amalgamation of any and all psychic contents disassociated from the ego. And the shadow will always exist, but it would get smaller if a function is transmuted from a daimonic form. Jung described the shadow as a globular entity, and the process of individuation involves yanking different elements out of this psychic amalgamation.

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But.. anyhow, I am in the process of testing this hypothesis more stringently across a wider base of samples, and processing the full breadth of implications, but this is how it appears to me at present. If this holds true then CT will have a basis from which to describe individuation at a high resolution, on a type-by-type, dev-by-dev basis which is quite exciting to think about.
But what do you all think?