Learning from Carl Gustav Jung

This journey started with my blog based conversation with Sou-san. We started out talking about Pat Riley which lead me to read The Winner Within, then that book lead me to read Joseph Campbell Companion, and now, I am reading Carl Jung in The Essential Jung: Selected Writings. It's going to be another pleasurable, long read. I am not talking about the length of the book, but about the length it will take for me to weave Carl Jung's teachings into my thinking process.

Today, the following entry in the book excited me:

Introduction

Jung's major contribution to psychology, therefore, lies in the field of adult development.

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The patients who interested him were those who had already freed themselves from the past sufficiently to become established in their own right; who were often successful in worldly terms; but who, in the mid-period of their lives, found that the world had become stale and unprofitable. Such people were seeking a meaning to their lives; and Jung's aim was to guide them along the path of individuation. Jungian analysis, therefore, was, and is, primarily oriented toward the patient's future.

This seem to me what my coaching friends are striving for. And although I have not yet become "successful in worldly terms", at the stage I am in my life, this is precisely what I have been seeking. Just a little conversation between me and Sou-san stimulated my curiousity, and I followed that curiousity. The trail has lead me to this path which I am walking now. It has become a journey to know myself. Wyuki-san talks in her blog (sorry for the reader who can't read Japanese! Her blog is all Japanese) about how we are not really aware of the exact moment when change happens in ourselves. This must be it. A little inertia born from trusting someone, then momentum picks up, and we are on our way.

Comments

[Sena]

I like Jung!

[suda]

Hi Sena,

That was a fast response! I think I was still in the process of editing the entry when you gaive me your comment. Thank you! I will try reading your blog with the babel fish translation.

[dragonfly]

須田さん、メールありがとうございます。
早速、目を通させてもらいました。

blogって自分を知る手がかりになるなぁ、と最近感じています。
日記とは違って、自分以外の誰かに見られることを意識するので、
出来る限り考えをまとめようとしますし、自分のEntryに関して、
友達から意見をもらったりして、より考えが深くなったり、新しい発見があったりします。

最近、自分のキャリアの方向を大きく転換させるために
努力しているところで、色々考えるところが多くて
そう感じるだけかもしれませんが。

最近、よく読んでるのは、
http://www.salesaid.jp/mt/archives/000526.html
にも書いていますが養老孟司の本ですかね。
コミュニケーションが大きなテーマで、スルメ...では
流通性というものに対する養老と茂木のやりとりが興味深かったです。

ちょっと急ぎながら書いてるので、なんだかよくわからない文章になってるかもしれませんが、
読んですぐでないとコメントしづらくなっちゃいますので、
推敲もせずにpostします。

[suda]

Soさん、忙しい中コメント有難うございます！私先日スルメ・・・エントリー読ませてもらい、印象的でした。その時はコメントはしませんでしたが。教育に関してよく考えます。特に働き方を変えるための行動的要素は、学生時代の学びの課程に強い関係があるように思えます。