
Rodney Ravenswood: Self, Soul, Ego - The Symbolic Life
Jung Society Melbourne Podcast
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Psychosematic Illnesses - Is There a Sub-Container?
Human beings are also collective animals. We require a collective container. And if the collective container is one that denies these things, and yet the individual feels impelled to believe them, then people will find sub containers. Of course, we can join religious or spiritual groups to try and find a sub container. But sub containers are mostly, in some measure, illegitimate. They may not always work to completely inure you from the influence of what's going on at another level. So we're still capable of getting psychosonatic illnesses, even if we have a beliefs. The culture at large is capable of having psychosematic illnesses. We see them all around us.
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