Individuals
that had influenced my thought.
Carl G. Jung
If there is one single person that truely changed
the way I look at the world in general, it's Carl G. Jung. He is a
student of Freud, disagreed with his master and found his own "Analytical
psychology" or popularized as "depth-psychology" school.
His contribute to my thought is on how unconsciousness are manifested
in all aspect of the personality and society. His personality types
still dominated the way I look, assess and interact with people. He
practically lead me to concluded that there are reasons for all activities,
rational and irrational.
All things can be understand with possible sugguest
of solution. His idea on archetypes in the psychological complexes
has openned my eyes into the new world of unconscious understanding
in the psychodevelopment of human mind. Unconcious as a complimentary
force to the conscious in order to balance and integrate each other
towards the full realization of being human, is a core concept of
my dialectic thought. When looks at thing through the lens of depth-psychology,
all things start to make sense psychologically as the symbolic development
of human mind, from the ancient 5 elements view of the world, mythology,
occultism to alchemy. Hence, he was my light bearer at the door of
mysticism. This concept of psyche as a dialectic dynamic systems has
truely influced the core of my thought, I've become a believer of
the sentense "there can be no progression without tensions"
due to the needs of integrating different conflicting elements in
order to grow. This has become my personal approach in living my life,
psychology, economic thought (i.e. Marx's dialectic and Schumpterian
creative destruction), and even mysticism.
Finally, his contribution of his idea to my interpretation
of Economics is very crucial, it urged me to develop the hypothesis
that economy is purely the result of unconscious-conscious psychological
interactions and physical needs governed by some patterns that are
possible to understand through reasoning eventhough the economic phenomena
might be highly irrational. Even more important, the implication that
psyche is an open systems seeking to find dynamic equilibrium at higher
stage through integration but yet is never at static equilibrium (
if so, is actually psychological fixation rather than healthy equilibrium)
is very insightful to my mistrust in the neoclassical framework in
economics while draw my interests more and more into Austrian school
of economics.
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