Nobody Cares How Stoic You Are (Anima/Animus)
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So today we're doing a lecture on anima
and animus. So anima and animus are
archetypes. They are yungian archetypes.
And we'll explain what that is in a
second. There's stuff floating around in
our subconscious. Okay. But someone
asked a brilliant question which is are
yungian archetypes too abstract to apply
clinically? And my answer to that
question was basically yes. So in
preparation of this lecture okay which
I'll just tell you a little bit about
how I came on to this lecture. So we did
a lecture on pueris which like cracked
something open in this community. It's
one of our most successful like set of
lectures. People were like holy crap
this is me. And then what I noticed is
that there's like a lot of problem with
like dating and mating, right? People
are struggling to connect. That's why we
made the guide to love, sex, and
relationships. And there's like
something deeper going on here. There's
like something going on at a at a very
deep level in society that is making it
hard for human beings to connect. So I
was reading this set of essays by I
think Emma Jung on anima and animus and
I was like holy crap this is describing
like almost perfectly what we are
experiencing. Okay I'm going to just
show you guys real quick. So as long as
the projection succeeds that is as long
it's the image corresponds to a certain
degree with the bear uh I have to
explain this. So the person someone
asked in chat is this too abstract for
clinical stuff and that's my
frustration. So when I was preparing for
this lecture, I asked a bunch of people.
I was like, "Hey, do you guys like have
any texts about Yian archetypes that are
clinical that show like how does this
show up in someone?" Because most of the
stuff on Yian archetypes is not
clinical. It's like fairy tale analysis.
They're like, "Oh, we can see this
archetype represented in this fairy
tale." And if you look at like, you
know, the Christian mythology theology
of like the Virgin Mary, like what is
this? The Virgin Mary is the ultimate
archetype. The Virgin Mary is someone
who is a perfect mother, but she remains
pure. She's not been defiled by a sexual
act. She is virginal in her purity, and
she is a mother. She's like this
fundamental contradiction of pure purity
and pure motherhood. So, this is what I
would find. And I was like, but hold on
a second. There's something going on
here where like men and women are
struggling. We're having all kinds of
problems. Okay? And like something is
going on here, but I don't know how to
apply this. So part of the reason I part
of the reason that we rescheduled the
lecture is like what I've tried to do is
break down animean animus in a clinical
way because I'm a clinician. So I'm not
a yian psychoanalysis analyst. I am a
old school psychiatrist who does
psychotherapy and psychoarm and
meditation all this kind of stuff. So
basically today what we're going to try
to do is explain what the archetypes
are. So first what is archetype and then
we're going to explain what anima and
animus is. But we're also going to look
at the problems of a disconnected enema
and a disconnected animus. And then
we're going to talk about possession by
the animma and animus. And each of these
has a clinical picture like a clinical
presentation. Then we're going to talk
about how the animus affects us
relationally. So if I have problems with
my anime and animus, it is going to
affect the relationships that I form.
Okay? So just to give y'all a quick
example, let me find this real quick.
Here's an example. Okay? It derives its
authority from its connection with the
universal mind. But the force of
suggestion it exercises is due to the
woman's own pacivity in thinking and her
corresponding lack of critical ability.
Such opinions or concepts usually
brought out with great applam especially
characteristic of the animus. They are
generally valid concepts or truths which
though they may be quite true in
themselves do not fit in the given cir
instance because they fail to consider
what is individual and specific in a
situation. Readymade incontrovertible
valid judgments of this kind are really
only applicable in mathematics where 2 *
2 is always four. The same sort of
unrelated thinking also appears in a man
when he is identified with the reason or
logos principle and does not himself
think but lets it think. Such men are
naturally especially well suited to the
embodied of the animus in the in a
woman. Okay, I know that's kind of like
a random thing but what I want you all
to pay attention to is they're talking
about something called animous
possession. an inanimous possession.
What happens in this person's mind is
they come up with these factory produced
styles of thinking and they trot them
out. Here are these truths based on
mathematical principles but there's no
room for individuality. This is a sign
of animous possession. Okay. And this is
like a book that was written by Emma
Jung like a hundred years ago. Okay. So
can you guys think of in dating and
mating do we have a situation where
people are trotting out universal truths
as if they are mathematics that remove
all individuality from the equation?
Okay. Are we pretending like things that
are individual and highly variable are
actually scientific not even scientific
mathematical proofs? This is a sign of
animous possession. This is something
that Emma Yung talked about almost a
hundred years ago. She's like by the way
there's this pattern. Okay. And it's
because of this that I think that
animean animus is so so so important to
talk about. And then finally, we're
going to talk about constellating which
is how we fix it. Okay. This is what
we're going to cover today. So let's
start with the basic. What is an
archetype? Jung noticed something kind
of interesting. He noticed that if you
go across cultures, there are these
primitive things in our unconscious mind
which are universal across cultures. So
it's like this is kind of interesting,
right? because we're all conditioned by
our environment. But what he noticed is
that there's this fundamental masculine
thing in our unconscious. This is what
he called the animus. And the animus is
that which deals with the external
world. So it's externally oriented, is
logical, is like motivated to
accomplish. It is fundamentally the way
that a human being. So he like looked
across cultures and he was like okay
there's this basic thing that some human
beings or not not some all human beings
have the capacity to deal with the
external world and dealing with the
external world involves a set of skills
right it's interpreting information it's
some amount of analysis it's building
things in the outside world it's shaping
the outside world it's inter interacting
with the outside world it's logical so
he kind of lumped these things together
and he said you know what this is what
we're going to call the masculine
principle because if you Look at men
especially in Jung's time right men are
people who go out and they build things
they shape the external world they build
tree houses they don't talk about their
feelings that is what the work of men
okay then what he also noticed is that
there was an internal principle as well
there is an inner sense of being a sense
of feeling a sense of connection a sense
of relation not shaping but relating
connecting and he's like these are these
two lumps of stuff one is an internal
orientation and One is an external
orientation and because the society was
very gendered in that time people
associated masculinity with external
stuff with accomplishment with logic and
women are emotions feeling internal
relational connection. But this is
really important to understand what Jung
said is that these are not male and
female. They're masculine and feminine.
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every human being has both of these
qualities. These are primitive parts of
our unconscious mind. If you look at any
human being on the planet, there's a
part of us that wants to shape and
interact with the external world. And
there is a part of us that has an inner
sense of being, feeling, aliveness, and
connection. This is what he called
animus. And this is what he called. Now,
back in the day, animus and anima mapped
on more to men and women. So we used to
live in highly gendered societies where
men were more animisoriented and women
were more animoriented. Okay. So each of
us okay so man or woman both of us have
animus and animus is external logical
accomplishment driven challenging okay
and anima is internal feeling connecting
being nurturing. And he sort of said
okay every human being on the planet has
these two qualities and these are
archetypal things. So what is an
archetype? It is a very deeprooted
pattern that lives in our unconscious.
So if you look at your life you have a
part of you that is externally oriented
a part of you that is internally
oriented. You have a part of you that is
logical a part of you that is feeling.
literally like now this remember this is
like Jung okay so this is around the
year 1900 like 120 years ago let's say I
think it was around around 1900 okay and
now like back then they didn't know that
there was left brain and right brain
right they didn't know that there was
the amygdala feeling portion of our
brain and there was like the logical
portion of our brain the analytical
portion of our brain that language is
over here on the left in Broca's area
and Waricki's area right and there's
some emotional circuits over on the
right so our lyic system is is more
right brain. They didn't know that
stuff, but they just observed it. They
sort of noticed. Okay. And then Jung
also Emma Yung really did a lot of this
work. So then what they noticed is every
person has an animma and every person
has an animus. And what we want is a
healthy balance between the two. We want
an integration between these two things.
Is that my life is a balance of going
out and accomplishing things in the
world and being one with myself. That I
have logic and I have emotion. But then
what happens in some people is one of
the forces the forces can become
imbalanced and this is where the
abstraction becomes clinical. Okay. So
we can disconnect from one. So there are
some people who are disconnected from
their animus. So as a human being I have
an animus and I have an animma. And if I
get disconnected from one what happens
is the other one kind of becomes
dominant. So I can have a life where I'm
way too emotional, way too internally
focused. I don't deal with the vagaries
of the external world, man. All those
plebs who are always like out there
working deadend jobs and clawing out a
pathetic living in life, right? All
these dirty people out there who are
trying to claw out some kind of lowme,
no, I'm more grand. I'm not going to I'm
not going to debase myself to join the
rat race of the normal world, the
external world. I'm going to be
philosophical. I'm going to be
intellectual. I'm going to be follow the
deeper things, the spiritual things to
pierce the veil of reality to understand
the metaphysical nature of the world. I
will not I'm not going to actually go
get a PhD in physics and do math
problems. I'm going to contemplate
quantum mechanics and synchronicity on
Reddit, right? I'm not going to engage
with this dirty oh my god like I have to
fill out applications and fill out
surveys and get my oh my god I'm not
going to do that right do you see how
these people are they they are not able
to engage with the external world but we
also have cases of animus and
disconnected these are people who are
not connected to their inner being in
the same way I ain't going to deal with
feelings facts don't give a f about your
feelings feelings are useless. Feelings
are are low. Feelings are pathetic. I'm
going to focus on mathematics. I'm going
to focus on ROI. I'm going to focus on
analysis. This is how you succeed in the
external world. No one gives a crap how
you feel. Feelings are to be conquered.
They're to be severed. I'm going to use
drugs. I'm going to use steroids. I'm
going to go out there. I'm gonna have
[ __ ] I'm have cars. I'm going to be
big on the outside. That is where
success lies. This being content with
yourself on the inside, being able to
feel, being a a [ __ ] who focuses on
nurturing and feeling. Oh my god, how
pathetic is that? Sound familiar, right?
Oh, no, no, but someone's saying, I I I
was about to say true until he said
drugs and steroids. But think about it.
Drugs are the ultimate way to deal with
internal feeling. They're our way of
exerting control. I what I feel on the
inside is is not worth anything. I just
need it to stop. So, give me a little
bit of that vitamin K. Let me roll up to
Wall Street in my job as an investment
banker. I'm going to go down from the
68th floor of the building that I'm in
on Wall Street. I'm going to go into the
mobile ketamine clinic, which is a bus
that parks outside of my building and
I'm going to get in injected with
vitamin K. Okay, you guys understand?
And by the way, I'm going to show you
all some some cool quotes, okay, of both
of these things and it's going to be
hilarious. So this is a lopsided animus
and this is a lopsided anima where we
disconnect from a part of ourselves. And
this Jung Emma Yung and um and uh Carl
Jung both said that both of these are
fundamentally unhealthy. You won't be a
healthy human being. But there's another
thing that can happen. So this is called
disconnection and this manifests in a
particular clinical way. Okay? Clinical
in the sense of like shows up in a human
being not in the sense of like
diagnosis. This is the picture which I
sort of modeled for you all. Okay? And
oh yeah when Dr. K says, "Oh my god, I
think anima and animus is so helpful in
in us understanding things. This is not
me making these connections." Okay, this
is me just using the current version,
but we will literally see versions of
this. Then something weird happens.
There's something called possession. So
this is when we have thema and animus.
Let's say I am say animma sucks. I'm all
animus. But then something weird
happens. This part of our unconscious,
we can try to bury it, but it is like a
fundamental part of us. We can't really
get rid of it. No matter how much I
think that emotions are dumb, right?
Emotions are useless. Emotions are a
waste of my time. Facts don't care about
your feelings. At the end of the day, I
still have a lyic system. That part of
my brain is like there. And similarly in
my mind, which is different from the
brain, right? In my mind, there is a
part of me that is nurturing. There is a
part of me that is inner no matter how
much I try to make it go away. So then
something weird happens. Thema actually
possesses the animus and this becomes a
puppeteer. Okay. So what does this mean?
This means that on the outside I appear
to be very logical. I appear to be very
analytical but behind my logic and
behind my analysis emotions actually
control me. I become highly sensitive to
criticism because internally I can't
handle it. I need to prove them wrong. I
become highly sensitive or not sensitive
paranoid to manipulation. I'm worried
about people always manipulating me. I'm
I'm paranoid about people manipulating
me. Why? Because I don't I'm not
anchored in myself. So what I discover
and these people the people who are
possessed are hyper analytical,
hyperlogical, but they're incredibly
moody. They're actually like, you know,
when we talk about the fragile masculine
ego, like look at this alpha who's like
got a bunch of money and got a bunch of
muscles and all this kind of stuff, but
like you're like, "Yeah, man. You're
pathetic, bro." And they're like,
they can't tolerate. They pick fights
with middle-aged dudes who have three
loving kids on the internet and try to
flex on them. They have to put everyone
in their place. They're actually
incredibly emotional creatures. They're
very unstable. They do things like get
up and walk out of interviews because
they can't tolerate a conversation.
They're incredibly emotional, but
they're the last to realize it, right?
They go picking ego fights because, oh,
hold on a second. But you have all this
money, you have all this fame, you have
all of this stuff, you have all these
big muscles. Why are you picking a fight
with a random dude who's got three kids?
Like, what? Why are you doing that? And
they don't have a good answer for it.
They're like, oh yeah, like I'm doing it
for fun. Wait, hold on a second. What
about that is fun? They don't know
because they're not connected to their
inner being. So thema actually puppets
their animus. Their feeling actually
drives their analytical thinking. Okay.
Then we have animus possession. We're
lpping off our analytical portion. And
so this part of us that tries to
control, tries to restrain, tries to get
the world to conform. Remember this is
external and this is internal. So these
people too, their animus starts
controlling theirma. So in the case of
animous possession, we see a different
kind of picture. So you can sort of
think about someone who is like a woman
who has severed off all of her feeling
and has become hyperanimous. So this is
a person who when when we get animus
possessed this is someone who lives in
the realm of fantasy. So they can't do
anything in the outside world but that
drive to do things in the outside world
infects their internal world. So these
are people who h build castles in their
mind. They're highly theoretical. Their
desire to create, their desire to
analyze, their desire to accomplish in
the external world gets flowed into
their imagination because they're
they're too stuck, right? Theirma
shifted. So they're shifted internally.
So all of their external drive manifests
internally. So they build up idealized
versions of themsel. They have a
beautiful example of the perfect version
of themsel. They have this logical idea
of the perfect self, but that perfect
self lives within them. The perfect self
cannot grapple with the muddiness of the
outside world. Okay? Then we get to the
relational component. But I think I'm
going to explain some of this stuff.
When we're disconnected from our
animist, when we're disconnected from
our feeling portion, so anima
disconnection started to happen a lot
with feminism. Not me saying this, it's
Emma Yung saying this. So there used to
be a period of time where men did one
thing and women did another thing and
then a couple of fundamental things
changed in the world. So Emma Yung talks
about this. So one of the animous
activities most difficult to see through
lies in in this field namely the
building up of a wish image of oneself.
The animus is expert at sketching in and
making a plausible picture that
represents us as we would like to be
seen. the ideal lover, the selfless
handmaiden, the extraordinarily original
person, right? Which is now being
intersected with the sick of fancy of
AI, which is now telling you, AI is now
telling you, yeah, you are
extraordinarily original. Your ideas are
revolutionizing quantum mechanics. This
is quantum biology, bro. You're really
breaking barriers that no one else has
broken. And this person is spending
their time, are they spending their time
in the external world? No. This is the
animus being filtered through their
internal being. Other examples are a
largely retrospectively
oriented pondering of what we ought to
have done differently in life and how we
ought to have done it or as if under
compulsion we make up strings of causal
connections. We like to call this
thinking though on the contrary it is a
form of mental activity that is
strangely pointless and unproductive. A
form that really leads only to self
torture. Here too there is again a
caristic characteristic failure to
discriminate between what is real and
what has been thought or imagined. Boom.
Here we go. Animous possession written
by Emma Jung 100 years ago. She's like
here's what the pattern is. This faculty
of thinking is not being put out into
the world. The faculty of thinking is
being pulled internally. And these
people just [ __ ] chew on these
thoughts. They're really good at
analyzing. Oh my god, they analyze so
much but they analyze in the past. They
form all of these complex theories and
it never translates out into the
external world. They are stuck inside
themselves. This is the animous
possessing thema. Okay, that's the
example. We're going to start with
feminism for a moment. Okay, and this is
not like please don't God don't think
like I'm anti-feminism. Let's
understand. We really got to understand
this. Okay, I wasn't going to include
this originally because I didn't want
people to get triggered, but this is
important. So yeah, I don't want to get
cancelceled, but we got to understand.
So we as human beings have these
psychological like parts of us, right?
Like so every human being has the desire
to make themselves known in the external
world and has the desire to like be good
internally. Like this is fundamental.
And then what happened is these internal
psychological drives manifested in a
particular way. So for like a 100,000
years of evolution, human beings lived
in a particular society. So our brain
and our psychological drives evolved
with the society. Then what happened is
society changed and as society changed
these psychological drives no longer fit
normally with the world that we live in.
And so Emma Yung noticed that in her
patients something was going on with
their relationship between their animus
was getting messed up by advances in
society. Now this is really important to
understand. She is not saying and I
don't think Marie Louise von France
doesn't believe this. Emma Yung doesn't
believe this. I don't believe this. This
is not good or bad. This does not imply
that we should have stayed in the old
way. So what Emma Yung talks about is
she says that there are three causes for
animous animma problems for women. The
first is that we used to rely on
religion to give us a sense of like
inner being and help us connect with our
internal self. As religions started to
decline, we no longer had a clear way to
connect with our spiritual selves. Okay.
Second big re thing that changed a lot
for women changed drastically for women
is birth control. So a huge part of what
a women's psychology had to be oriented
towards is like to breed or not to
breed. That is the question cuz medical
care was not great at that time. Infant
mortality is really bad. Even today
statistically the most dangerous thing
that the average woman will do in her
life is get pregnant and bear a child.
Most dangerous thing that you'll ever
do. So a lot of our psychology was
wrapped up into this question which now
suddenly we have freedom over. And the
third thing is technology. So there were
many tasks. So for example, Jung talks
about you know there are many tasks for
which the woman previously applied her
inventiveness and creative spirit right
where she formerly blew up the
hearthfire and thus still accomplished a
Prometheian act. today she just turns a
gas plug or electrical switch and has no
inkling of what she sacrifices by these
practical novelties. Okay. Basically
what what she's kind of pointing out is
if you look at like let's say a woman a
thousand years ago or 2,000 years ago
the drive to be inventive, the drive to
be creative was in some way satisfied by
the way that they took care of their
household. Right? To make order out of
chaos and engage with the external
world, I had to keep my house in order.
And a good example of like a
well-integrated animous woman is what I
think of as like a matriarch. So she's
not someone who is just dealing with
feelings. She's dealing with
practicalities. So I remember when my
grandmother was when she had young kids
in India, there was rationing going on.
So she would get an aotment of sugar
that was really expensive. She couldn't
buy more. And so she had to use her
analytical capability to make sure that
the sugar lasted through the month. She
had to be very analytical, very
externally oriented. She also had to
account for the fact that my grandfather
was not good with money. So her animus
was very represented. It got some it had
stuff to do. And so with the creation of
technology, right? So what happened is
then suddenly like the stuff that women
used to do is no longer that big of a
deal. So then where does their external
drive go? And this is where she also
observes a couple of things. Okay, which
is for everything not done in the
traditional way will be done in a new
way. And that is not altogether simple.
There are many women who when they have
reached the place where they are
confronted by the the intellectual
demands say I would rather have another
child in order to escape or at least
postpone the uncomfortable and
disturbing demand. So this is important
to understand. This is like I I want you
all to be really careful about what this
means and what this doesn't mean. So
what Jung is saying is that look if
there used to be something done a
particular way and we just take that
away it's not such an easy problem to
solve. And some women will avoid their
intellectual engagement by retreating
into just being an oven for babies. And
Jung says this will cause you a ton of
problems in life. You have a fundamental
psychological need to engage in the
outside world to accomplish things in
the outside world and society was so
simple that you used to be able to
satisfy that. And just having children
is a way to run away from the
intellectual demand. And remember, Yung
is this like a 100 years ago, right? So
she's like maybe 1920s, maybe 1930s,
maybe 1950s. And she was saying, okay,
there are a lot of women who just want
to have kids. That's fine. But some
women choose to have an additional child
instead of grapple with this. What am I
going to do with my IQ? How am I going
to feel accomplished in life? And they
will retreat from this challenge by
having children. Now, notice she's not
saying that having children is good or
having children is bad, right? She's
saying like this is the psychological
reality that like your brain's got to be
occupied with something and you can run
away from it by having kids or you can
embrace it and have kids. You can try to
be the best analytically
accomplishoriented mother that you can.
Very decent option. This I think is is
right. Now the reason this becomes
important is because women used to be in
the kitchen and then around the time of
feminism they stopped being in the
kitchen because there was a decline in
religion. This is what Jung says. Okay.
decline in religion, birth control, loss
of traditional gender roles. So there is
a new challenge that women have to face
which is why they started entering the
workplace. They started becoming more
masculine. They started balancing the
animus, right? This was a necessary
thing that evolved with technology. Now
the really interesting thing, so if you
read Emma Yung's words, which we're
going to go over a ton, I think what I'm
seeing, which is really interesting, the
same thing that happened to women 70
years ago is happening to men today.
Traditional gender roles for us are now
disappearing. Men are have a lower
college metriculation rate, graduation
rate than women do. We don't make on
average necessarily more women money
than women do. We're no longer the
providers. So it used to be that we used
to have a well-carved way to get our
animus and figured out and now that's
gone for us. So now we're the ones
spinning in the wind. And just like Emma
Jung said, they said some women run away
from the problem of intellectual
engagement by having more kids. Some men
run away from the inner problem, getting
to know myself, getting to connect
myself by going hard in the other
direction. I'm just going to make more
money. I'm just going to make bigger
muscles. I'm going to just do all this
stuff as a substitute for the inner
work. Define inner contentment and
peace. I'm not actually looking inward.
what I'm going to do is become the best
version of me that I can ever be. And
hopefully, if I accomplish enough
externally, that'll wrap around and I'll
be internally content. They're running
away from the inner work by leaning into
the external work. Same thing that was
happening to women 60 or 70 years ago is
happening to men today, but in a
different direction. Okay? It's insane,
guys, how like how prophetic this is.
And this is the beauty of archetypes is
that archetypes are deep within us. They
don't change. The society arounds us
changes and the way that our archetype
connects to the society changes and
creates this lack of connection is what
creates a lot of our problems. Okay?
Around this time of disconnection,
right? So women became a little bit
disconnected from their their inner
being, their feeling. So there was like
sort of a whole scale suppression of
their feeling, right? We sort of viewed
and and this is interesting when we talk
about a patriarchy this becomes relevant
too because what we did in society is we
said analysis is better than emotion.
Logic is superior to emotion. Right? We
made a fundamental statement that our
left brain is just better than our right
brain. To be logically sound is superior
to becoming emotionally aware. This is
the overarching like system of our our
society today. Some people call it the
patriarchy. And so then what happened is
women were like, "Okay, if you want to
be successful, you should become a man.
You should become a CEO. You should go
into STEM." And we try to make that more
accommodating, which I have nothing
against. But my point is that we're
still shifting into the masculine being
superior to the feminine. It is it is
such a insidious and profound way,
right? If you ask someone, "Hey, what do
you want to be when you grow up?" And
they say, they answer with a job. If you
say, "What do you want to be when you
grow up?" Content. Oh my god. You can't
ever date someone who wants contentment
in life. Oh my god. Where's the
ambition, bro? Ambition is superior to
contentment. To be externally oriented,
to be grinding every day, to be
accomplishing more is superior to having
an inner peace. This is the society that
we live in. And so since that was the
attitude, feminism actually followed
that. If you read into Yung in a
particular way, right? So, she's like
she's saying that Marie Luis Von France
talks about this quite a bit and I'll
try to find a clip for y'all, but she
kind of says that, you know, we made the
masculine the ideal. The masculine way
of living in the world became superior
to the feminine way of living in the
world. Now, remember, I'm not saying
male or female. I'm saying masculine and
feminine. The animus became superior to
the animma. We said logic is better than
emotion. What's happening on here is not
as important as what's happening on the
outside. We made those value judgments.
And so then what happened when feminism
rolled around is we had a lot of animma
suppression in women. We had anima
disconnection in women. So women became
some of them became ball busters. They
became very very like masculine in their
in their vibe. Right? And we came up
with a particular term for it which is
ball busters. And even the men don't
like it even though the women are just
doing what the men have always done.
Right? It's like if this is done by a
dude it's lauded. If it's done by a
woman we get all bent out of shape. and
we come up with a particular term ball
buster. So this is a sign of anima
disconnection. People who are
disconnected from their view feelings as
impure and thus become anti-impurity
which becomes a denial of our very own
instincts. Right? The way that I feel is
actually like bad and is inferior to the
way that I think. Now here's what's
really interesting. Another thing that
Jung talked about is when we become
disconnected from we'll just use the
example of for now. When we become
disconnected from our inner feeling,
that part of us still exists and we must
get it from the outside. Instead of the
source of our feelings being us, we have
to get feeling from somewhere. So then
what happens is we get our feeling from
the outside. So the absence of
connection with your own inner being
means that your emotive manifestation
needs to come from other places. What
does Jung talk about? sexual emphasis
where when we are disconnected from our
internal emotions, we rely on sex to
give us feelings literally. And if you
look at what's going on in the
manosphere right now, right, there's so
much stuff about the status of sexual
conquest. Sex is not just nutting. Sex
is meaning pride, power, status. Where
does pride, power, and status, where
does that exist? It exists within us.
You say, "No, no, no. status is in the
outside world. No, it isn't. When I walk
into a restaurant and they're like, "Oh,
welcome, Dr. K. We have your table ready
for you." Status. Is that nice in the
outside? Yes. But when I walk into the
restaurant and and I'm like, "Hey, do
you have my table ready?" And they're
like, "We're sorry we don't have your
table ready." Then how do I feel? How
dare you? Do you know who I am? I'm Dr.
K. I'm an influencer with 3 million
followers. I'm one of the most followed
psychiatrists on the planet. What has
changed when people don't give me
status? Internal. Internal has changed.
When they give me status, what has
changed? Internal. Look at me. I'm so
great, bro. Bruh, I'm so great. Look at
how everyone's everyone's bowing down.
Everyone's paying respect, man. Come on,
man. Like, don't you know I'm Dr. K?
Status is internal. And this is what we
see when you are disconnected from your
own inner being. You are dependent on
the rest of the world to make you feel a
certain way. That's why I need to get
laid because if I if I can get laid and
we [ __ ] hear it. You just pay
attention to all of the incel, red pill,
black pill, alpha, whatever. I'm a loser
because I can't get laid. If I become
late, hey, should I go see a prostitute
because then I won't feel like such a
loser. I went to go see a prostitute and
now I feel even more like a loser. It's
all about feeling, feeling, feeling,
feeling, feeling. And they pretend it
isn't. This isma disconnection. Sexual
emphasis to feel a certain way, status,
power, privilege, whatever. Right? It is
all actually feeling oriented.
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This lecture provides a clinical, Jungian-inspired exploration of the anima and animus archetypes. It defines these concepts not as strictly male or female, but as masculine (external, logical) and feminine (internal, relational) principles that every individual possesses. The lecture examines the modern epidemic of loneliness and relationship struggles, attributing them to an imbalance or disconnection from these archetypal components. Dr. K discusses the concepts of 'possession' by these archetypes, where an unacknowledged side of the psyche puppets one's behavior, and addresses how societal shifts—such as the decline of religion, technological advancements, and changing gender roles—have left both men and women struggling to integrate these forces effectively.
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