The Complementarian Self

[M Winther]

"The Complementarian Self"

Abstract: The self, representing the wholeness of the psyche, has in
different guises functioned as a role model for the individual,
throughout history. In the Christian era, the ideal of the spiritual
individual who is morally perfect (Jesus Christ), through its very
one-sidedness, created a reversal of its spirit into materialism.
Psychologist Carl Jung, renounced the ideal of perfection and proposed
an ideal of completeness. The consequences are no less deleterious.
The traditional spiritual ideal must be combined with a this-worldly
ideal, following the principle of complementarity as defined by
physicists.

Keywords: self, psychic structure, complementarity, C.G. Jung,
trinitarian, quaternity, transcendence, Christ.

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Mats Winther

[M Winther]

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One gets the wrong impression from my abstract. It is not about
complementing spirit with matter. Since it revolves around ideals
("role models") it refers to a complementarity of spirit. It should be
like this: "....The traditional spiritual ideal must be combined with
a this-worldly (quaternarian) ideal of spirit, following the principle

of complementarity as defined by physicists."

Mats

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Although Jung's self notion is appealing, and no doubt verified in
clinical material, I think he throws the baby out with the bathwater
when he renounces the Christian spirit, especially as defined in
mysticism. The self functions a role model for the individual and
defines his path in life. In my personal experience, I have found that
neither the Christian nor the Jungian path fits me very well, if
practiced seriously as a life's path (i.e. not in the common loose
sense). However, in theory, they are mutually exclusive, so one cannot
integrate them. I have a genuine wish to solve this problem. Now I
believe that complementarity can provide a solution. The trinitarian
and the quaternarian are, in fact, complementary opposites.

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Mats