2005

Basically, psychoses and neuroses represent man’s inability to maintain a balanced or equated polarity in conducting his life. The ego becomes exclusively or decidedly one sided. In psychoses there is a complete collapse of the ego back into the inner recesses of the personal and collective unconsciouses. When he is repressed toward fulfilling some life goal and where he is further unable to sublimate himself toward another goal, man regresses into goal structures not actually acceptable to himself or to the society. Strong emotional sickness of the psychotic type is like having the shadow run wild. The entire psyche regresses to archaic, animal forms of behaviors. In less severe forms of emotional sickness there may be an accentuated and overpowering use of one of the four mental functions at the expense of the other three. Either thinking, feeling, intuiting or seeing may assume such a superior role as to render the other three inoperative. The persona may become so dominant as to create a totally one-sided ego, as in some forms of neurotic behavior. All in all, whatever the type of severity of the emotional disorder, it can be taken as a failure of the psyche to maintain a proper balance between the polarities of life. Essentially, psychoses and neuroses are an alienation of the self from its true goal of self actualization. In this sense the culture is of no consequence. Emotional disorder is not a question of being out of tune with one’s culture so much as it is of being out of tune with one’s self. Consequently, neurosis is more than bizarre behavior, especially as it may be interpreted by contemporaries in the culture. This interpretation avoids the sociological question of what is a mental disorder, since form of behavior which is acceptable in one culture may be considered neurotic in other culture. To Jung, the deviation from cultural norms is not the point. The inability to balance out personal polarities is.
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Title: Psychoses And Neuroses; The Context Of Deviation Pertained

The ego becomes absolutely one-sided in Psychoses and Neuroses, the inability to maintain a balanced life. The person in psychoses has a completely shattered ego where he can no more devote himself to certain goals and hence, opts for deviant goals. In Strong psychotic emotional sickness, animal like behaviours exists and in less severe form, the overuse of one of the thinking,feeling,intuiting or seeing occurs. In neurotic behaviour, one-sided ego forms due to the persona. In short, all psychotic sicknesses represent failure of mind, and these pertain deviation from one's self and not culture. But without considering cultural contexts, neurotic behaviour may be interpreted wrongly. The imbalance of personal life and not deviation from cultural norms is the question in Jung's view.
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