03-01-2006, 04:57 AM
Anonmon Wrote:Parents: We could nearly always do without them.Sorry, but I don't know what "How to Raise Kids and Be Good" type of psychology is about. Could you be more specific?
To tell the truth Zephyr (and prove you at least partially wrong), I know exactly where my attitude comes from. My parents have been practical slaves to that "How to Raise Kids and Be Good" type of psychology since I was 4, and it's done me no end of suffering. So I reject that sort of thing as needing to be taken with a shaker of salt. However, I'm aware of why I have this attitude. The key to being really free-willed is knowing the very conscious reasons behind your feelings and decisions, rather than understanding some freaky sub-concious people get when their society won't let them think about sex (Frued reference. Jung was a Freudian).
And though I understand what you mean, it's still what I mean too. How can you tell the 'very conscious reasons'? Let's go with another example: We all want a mate here. It's not a life supporting need, in fact you can live all your life without having anyone, yet we all have the drive. It's just a trick that nature does to keep the species. Yet we feel empty if we don't follow it. We're not tied by need, but we are by....by what? By need too? Another kind of need? How many of us want to have kids right now? And yet that's the ultimate finality for mating.
And saying that Jung is a Freudian is like saying, though you might not like the comparison, like saying that Christians are Jews. Though Jesus was a Jew, He made a more modern, and therefore more open, enhanced and evolved type of religion (of course I am talking about what He did and not the shit His followers made up belatedly). Though Freud was the father of psychoanalysis, Jung discovered a continent where Freud just found some ruins (this I quoted from Freud. He said "Psychoanalysis is in its beginnings. Where I discovered a few ruins others can find a continent".)
And Herr, I did one of those quizzes. It's very interesting, the one that says how people perceive themselves. While the people my age are mainly focused in 'relationships', I'm most in 'inner' and also 'physical'. It's fun to think I'm so two-sided; like it explains there, young people tend to focus on physical while older people in inner. I guess I've been through so much that now my 'inner' is what counts the most, but I still have this worrying about my physical like young people. (To be less nice with myself, it shows how messed up my brain is).