There is a clear relation between the jungian archetypes and the major arcana of the tarot. The Fool's journey in the tarot is all the stages which one new soul embodies and eventually integrates to become a fully developed soul, seeing itself in with the world again (after the initial childhood separation of "me" from "the world"), at the same time One and Individual. This time, the identification of the Self with the world is a concious choice, not unconcious.It does not take much effort to see how the ancient archetypes inherited through the collective unconcious are mirrored in each major arcana, and there is a very fitting almost idempotent correspondance between the two.Man's brain is clearly wired to think in terms of archetypes, which is why all religions reflect these archetypes (in Christ, in Satan, in Buddha, in the Virgin Many, etc.) too and why most philosophies always speak of very similar virtues.Clearly, archetypal thought works well with our mind, in that it is helpful in order to bring to conciousness the archetypes each individual's persona unconciously represents, as it helps that individual to actually make a truly personal choice, a choice made with the highest degree of conciousness, instead of merely adopting the choices of any personality floating on the collective unconcious. This individuation, this power over the unconciouss at one's mind, represents the highest possible degree of development of an individual's soul.It is then relevant to ask: why has modern psichology and psychiatry abandoned this view in pro of a phisiologically mechanistic explaination, whose only answer to the troubles of the individual is to treat the symptoms, and not the causes? A SSRI does nothing to address the underlying cause of depression, only pushes it under the rug, and yet society has gleefully accepted them.
>>24751427They're not common but there are still Jungian psychoanalysts out there. But the thing about psychoanalysis is that it takes years and some amount of dedication from the patient. Most people just aren't gonna do that. And anyway only a shitty psychiatrist is advocating for only using medication without any other form of therapy
>>24751506Some countries reach 15% of daily antidepressant use. How often do these people "get therapy"? Clearly, most people are just medicated.
>>24751427>and yet society has gleefully accepted them.Like yourself the majority of society has almost zero clue about medical science.Jungian science/processes are even harder to swallow.
>>24751531>t. butthurt psychologist
>>24751427>a deck of divination cards designed to be applicable to widest variety of interpretations>DUDE IT FITS THIS PARTICULAR HORSESHIT LMAO
>>24751697Jung himself said the tarot is a representation of the process of individuation.
>>24751427She cute.
>>24751427Psychology and philosophy are joke
>>24751506It's also expensive so most patients can't afford Jungian psychoanalysis
>>24751697True, you can project almost any esoteric system onto the tarot (and there's no shortage of hucksters who do.) But the archetypes are innate, and find an outlet in all kinds of artistic expression. It would be no surprise to find them embedded in the tarot, just as they are elsewhere.
