Carl Jung Triggers Patient's Shadow...

A wonderful clip featuring Mary Bancroft from the documentary on C.G. Jung "Matter of The Heart." When Jung poked Mary with a very simple question, she was shown a reflection that she wasn’t quite ready to honesty acknowledge... Her response is a quintessential example of “projection”.

Jung's connection to the unconscious meant that he could peer into the depths, and bring it right back out to meet you. This intuitive sensitivity meant that Jung could "know" the (supposedly) unknowable.

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[Rdogman]

Excellent she's laughing at her self
Like most of us if we reflect on ourselves

[expressionofwill]

She's so lucky twitter didn't exist at the time. The dopamine rush from retweets and likes etc... Would have kept her hooked on being angry at tons of people forever. Like it has with many other poor souls, consumed by positive reinforcement toward their hatred.

[nicj]

My marriage improved a lot when I realized I wasn't the good guy I thought I was

[zsoro]

“Jung TRIGGERS grandma’s Shadow, absolutely DESTROYS her with facts and logic!” 😂🤙🤯😵

[yodasmomisondrugs]

I told my 11 year old daughter the other day if the world feels like its always angry with you, maybe its because you we're angry with it first. She got it!

[TidalWaveDan]

“The human shadow has roots that reach all that way to hell.” Carl Jung

[thaddiusglunt]

This is something I have seen in myself before: I had no patience for anyone else and therefore nobody had any patience with me. It took me much longer than I would like to admit to figure that out too.

[letsplay]

I'm most impressed by the fact that he knew she'd be back.

[coreyloucks]

Anger is such a powerful emotion and she’s absolutely right, it feels good to be angry. It feels justified most of the time and it’s certainly better than feeling sorry for yourself or feeling pain or hurt.

[escapevelocity]

Jung was truly an expert in psychology, most psychological disorders stem from excessive ego protection triggered by insecurity, so if you see anger, rejection and hostility in the patient you know you've hit the nail, hence why Jung expected her return.

He shared many elements of his own shadow in 'the red book', without shame or disillusion.

[anemon]

“A great way to see your flaws is by seeing them in others” i’ve read that somewhere

[edgewaterz]

A year! A year. That’s how long it took for her to process one comment. That’s how difficult self reflection can be.

[JessieInTheSky]

He truly believed in his patients to figure it out.

[aliceberethart]

When i was a child at about the age of ten, I had a neighbour kid in my age, and we hated each other’s guts.
Whenever we’d pass each other on our way in or out of our homes we’d stick our tongues out and make grimaces against one another.
One day I was out playing in the sand in the communal yard when the mean boy showed up and stomped on my sandcastle.
It made me really angry, of course, yet something very unexpected happened at that moment.
I told him to stop, and to my surprise he did.
He looked at me with a stern face, expecting me to tell him something vile, but something came over me and in a calm tone I asked, “Why are we fighting?”
The boy was so perplexed at the question that he had to sit down for a moment, and then he said, “I don’t know.”
A moment later I invited him to play with me in the sand, and after that our relationship flipped from sworn enemies to great friends.
What I learnt at that moment is to always be the first one to break the viscous cycle.
I’m 30 today and still see that lesson as one of my most important ones.

[Mecanotech]

I'm 24... for years I was mad because I realized everybody was always awkward, like there will ever be a point where life is not awkward??? Everywhere I saw, there was awkwardness, always... but now I see, that's just a mirror of my behaviour. So I started speaking louder, no matter if I was going to be wrong I just wanted to be heard, that's when people didn't seem insecure like I was... because I was trully speaking my hearth, they knew me finally...


I hope this helps other youngsters like me

[oyvucku]

Anger is a secondary emotion, usually to fear. And I like how she spelt it out "Why is everybody so mean to me?", "Why are you so mean to everybody?" Because she feared rejection and abandonment, because she was in pain- she rejected the very thing she craved but was too afraid to accept. And now she's laughing, so I hope that now she received all the happiness and love she deserved.

[zardi]

Imagine having the privilege to be one of Jung's patients.

[Shmyrk]

Understanding that the shadow is not “bad” or “mean” or “evil”, and that it’s just the UNCONSCIOUS mind (ie that which we are unaware of), because Jung thought of the conscious mind as having light upon it, was actually life changing for me

[jeannewillemse]

Never before today have I heard an elderly lady say something so close to "you know what I was wrong".

[katnip]

Jung, a gift to mankind. A psychotherapist with a heart and soul. He did his own inner work and then blessed all who were his patients. Thank you for this very meaningful video.