In this article I want to reflect on theories made by Jung, along with Narcissism and Sociopathy, and have a look at, how they evolve in the modern social landscape.
What is a Well-functioning Human?
I would describe such a human as a human who understands to use his/her personal presets well not to be enigmatic him/herself, but rather to create Enigma/Certain Output as the result of their own activity or collaboration with other people.
Such human shall be able to create meaningful relationships, meaning that other people has the same abilities.
How Does a Well-Functioning Human Interact with the World Around?
Jung describes our interaction with the outer world as the persona, which he depicts as the compromise between the society and the behavior of a human, the human individuality that is.
How Can Your Ability to Interact with World Be Shaken?
You will always experience a situational disbalance talking to narcissists, sociopaths and psychopaths, as these people approach realities in a totally different way and with different purposes than an average human, so your mind can be affected by rude or tiny manipulations of theirs.
The inability of a human to interact with the outer world in a compromising way will always create a disbalance in life. Only an ability to choose the right elements of your personality in any given situation will provide you with an optimal result.
How Can Narcissists, Sociopaths and Psychopaths Afflict on a Human's Ability to Create a Balanced Persona for the Outside World ?
The disbalance in a human-being can be created by subjecting the mind to substances like smoking, alchohol and non-farmaceutical drugs. It can also be created by manipulative interaction with narcissists, sociopaths and psychopaths, which can result in narcissistic abuse or neurosis.
Carl Jung describes neurosis as an effort of a human mind to heal itself, I would rather describe it as the mind's inability to deal with the reality in a well-functional way, as it was a subject to a lot of toxic communication through a longer period of time.
Unfortunately due to the invisible nature of such conditions, it can be misused, and therefore badly treated by many cultures. The safest way is not to get sick with stress, anxiety and neurosis by avoiding toxic structures and communication in both private and working life.
Who are Narcissists, Sociopaths and Psychopaths? Why Are They Possible?
Narcissists, sociopaths and psychopaths are people, who belong to a group with antisocial behavior.
Narcissists are high in selfishness and it can vary, the damage they bring can be based on their personal settings and therefore unintentional.
Psychopaths and sociopaths are out there to damage purposefully, they always want something out of another human.
The governmental structures assure us with frames that we move within, but they do not manage our lives at microscopic level, which gives space for something a usual human does not understand or expect to happen - narcissism, sociopathy and psychopathy.
Social level of our existance is filled with toxic patterns and manipulations, our brains are not even made to recognise until we get any learning experiences which can end up in many unfortunate life situations. Structures in highly developed contries can support these situations better and yet people end up in sekts, troubled situations and with health issues.
Toxic communication exists everywhere - at home, at work, people can live a lifetime dealing with it without any drama. It is unfortunately our responsibility to learn to recognize these patterns for higher efficiency, bigger operationality of our own output and higher personal independence.
How Can a Description of a Shadow Be Connected to Narcissism and Sociopathy?
Carl Jung insists that each and single person has a shadow, a part of an unconscious psyche that he/she does not understand, and the bigger the lack of self-understanding is, the bigger the shadow is.
In this way narcissists and sociopaths are people who are badly aware of who they really are themselves, suggesting that these people will experience influence of their shadows to a more overwhelming extent. Shadow is by Jung's definition percepted by us as something negative, whereas it does not have to be.
I view our brain in a more instrumental way rather than the discorse of good and evil. I believe Carl Jung got a classical to that time upbringing that involved a lot of illogical thinking about good and evil in our life in an unsensible way.
The discussions about good/evil and victim/abuser are thinking patterns that will get into your genually more opeational head, if we deal with narcissists, sociopaths and psychopaths. Difficult situations are not so difficult if you walk through them together with people that have an average psyche or narcissistic abuse.
So the notion of Shadow in our personality is a questionable thing for the present day. The modern education teaches or shall teach self-understanding and behavioral patterns and morals, more than good and evil.
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