How Ignoring the Unconscious Keeps You Trapped in a Limiting Identity: A Jungian Perspective

Tom Laughlin draws a diagram of the psyche, a Jungian-derived model that looks something like this: The Ego, Jung tells us, is that part of the psyche that we think of as “I.” Our conscious intelligence. Our everyday brain that thinks, plans and runs the show of our day-to-day life. The Self, as Jung defined it, is a greater entity, which includes

We may remain oblivious to the ways in which we have used practice in collusion with our personal—and often neurotic—pursuit of autonomy, emotional invulnerability, or an attempted purgation from ourselves of the longings and desires that leave us open to suffering.