(8) "In Praise of John Bradshaw's Book Healing the Shame That Binds You" (dated January 19, 2025):
In any event, in 2020, W. W. Norton and Company published the seven-volume set of Jung's Black Books: 1913-1932: Notebooks of Transformation, edited by Sonu Shamdasani, translated by Martin Liebscher, John Peck, and Sonu Shamdasani.
In 2009, W. W. Norton and Company published Jung's Red Book: Novus Liber (Latin for "New Book"), edited by Sonu Shamdasani, translated by Mark Kyburz, John Peck, and Sonu Shamdasani, as a handsome over-sized art book. In my estimate, Jung's works of art and drawings in it show that he was a talented artist.
Now, back now to my own experience of the onset of my mid-life crisis with my experience of a hypomanic episode in late February 1974. Yes, today I can readily interpret my hypomanic episode in late February 1974 as involving the feminine archetypes in my psyche. In Jung's experience of his significant mid-life crisis, he had deliberately, and dangerously, engaged in what he came to refer to as active imagination. His dangerous use of active imagination involved what he referred to as fantasy thinking involving images and associative thinking - not what he referred to as directed thinking involving logic. For Jung in his dangerous self-experimentation, fantasy thinking was the royal road for him to take to enter into and interact with his unconscious, including his personal unconscious and the collective unconscious in the psyches of all human persons. The collective unconscious is where the eight archetypes of maturity and their sixteen "shadow" forms reside in the human psyche.
But now back to me and my experiences in late February 1974 and early March 1974 involving my friend Sue - especially those experiences in early March 1974 involving her difficult story of her years of sexual promiscuity as a girl and of her gang rape as a pregnant teenager by her boyfriend and his buddies. In my sheltered life up to that time in early March 1974, I had never heard any woman describe her sexual experiences as a girl in such vivid detail.
Because of the powerful sense of empathy that I felt for my friend Sue as she told me about her years of sexual promiscuity as a girl and about her gang rape by her boyfriend and his buddies, and because of certain other sexual experiences I had with my friend Sue in bed with her in her apartment in early March 1974, I experienced the following two significant psychological shifts in my psyche as part of my mid-life crisis:
(1) from The Impotent Lover "shadow" form of the masculine Lover archetype of maturity in my psyche The Addicted Lover "shadow form of the archetype of maturity in my psyche (manifested in my love for porn videos and DVDs);
(2) from The Impotent Lover "shadow" form of the feminine Lover archetype of maturity in my psyche to The Addicted Lover "shadow" form of the feminine Lover archetype of maturity in my psyche (manifested in my love for the two pornstars Bree Olson and Molly Jane).
No doubt the first significant manifestation of The Addicted Lover "shadow" form of the masculine Lover archetype of maturity in my psyche emerged in February 1974 in my attraction to my friend Sue and my desire to f*ck her.
No doubt the strong and powerful empathy that I felt for my friend Sue in early March 1974 when she told me the difficult story of her years of sexual promiscuity and of her gang rape as a pregnant teenager in my apartment one evening prompted me subsequently in bed with her in her apartment to urge her to re-enact her gang rape on me - which she promptly did.
By asking my friend Sue to re-enact her gang rape on me, I was expressing The Detached Manipulator "shadow" form of the masculine Magician/Shaman archetype of maturity in my psyche.
No doubt the two changes in the "shadow" forms of the masculine and the feminine Lover archetypes of maturity in my psyche are associated with my short but intense affair with my friend Sue in late February -March 1974 were significant developments in my psychological life thereafter. (She ended our short affair before the end of March 1974.)
No doubt my active, indeed participatory, viewing of the DVD version of the 1970s Wonder Woman television series starring the busty young Lynda Carter in late August 2024 into September 2024 enabled me to learn how to access the optimal and positive form of the feminine Lover archetype in my psyche.
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