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Hans Christian Andersen: Persona & Personhood

This Jungian Life Podcast

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Is the Emperor a Dream Ego?

"The emperor is the dream ego, that the dream ego is kind of moving around in a way that it is not related to reality," he says. "These defences, psychological defence, have surrounded the ego simply reaffirming what its choices are without seeing that they're destructive or humiliating or shameful." It's not until the child, and the divine child, again, can be the seed of the self, something that is outside the defence system, which can be felt as catastrophic - that even there there's a moment to come into the reality principle,. That the emperor just doubles down and just keeps marching along, greeting the peasantry. You know, buck naked. What if his wise men

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