Friday, June 11, 2010

Movies that I wanna

First a note based off notes from before: No Jon, I don't remember making out with you. I do remember a vague conversation where you implied you'd rather barf than kiss me--but maybe I have that wrong. Again...bad memory.

I've been picking up a bunch of random Jung books lately. For those who don't know who that is, he's a psychology theorist. And a pretty cool one.

Wiki states:
Jung's work on himself and his patients convinced him that life has a spiritual purpose beyond material goals. Our main task, he believed, is to discover and fulfill our deep innate potential, much as the acorn contains the potential to become the oak, or the caterpillar to become the butterfly. Based on his study of Christianity, Hinduism, Buddhism, Gnosticism, Taoism, and other traditions, Jung perceived that this journey of transformation, which he called individuation, is at the mystical heart of all religions. It is a journey to meet the self and at the same time to meet the Divine. Unlike Sigmund Freud, Jung thought spiritual experience was essential to our well-being.

I love the use of the word individuation as I think in LDS culture we use the word Agency with the same meaning. We are allowed our agency - but God gives us that agency with the hope that we will use it to find our way back to him.

Anyhow-one thing that's built off Jung's theories is the Myers-Briggs typology testing. Its the one that puts you into four categories-ENTJ or IF....whateves I can't remember right now but they stand for Extroverted/Introverted, Intuitive/ crap it's getting late. Anyhow so the four letters represent your dominant characteristics, the ones most people and yourself see in day to day interaction. Today I came across a great book that talked about what happens when the non-dominant personality traits come out. The non-dominate side of ourselves comes out usually when we're tired, stressed or drunk, and although it doesn't happen often, when it does happen is usually really catches folks off guard and makes them weird out.

Usually because the non-dominant is very unpleasant. I'll have to write some more about it later. First I've got to look up the non-dominant for my personality. I guess this interests me because I think it will help me better recognize the parts of my personality that offend and hurt others and by knowing what those are more clearly and what triggers their arrival will help me catch them and stop them.

2 comments:

JonJon said...

I'm pretty sure I didn't say that. I might have said that kissing girls makes me want to barf. Let's have a Myers Briggs party sometime soon. Seriously.

Me said...

kissing freyja would make me barf. sorry freyja.

i like jung though. we read alot of him in my human deveopment class. i should find some more of his stuff.