THE FUNCTION OF THE UNCONSCIOUS, A FICTITIOUS OR REAL PATH? WORTHY OR DANGEROUS?

A Hill or elevation of the terrain would be a representation of the different behavioral scenarios of the two of us, two mental functions, which can serve as a figurative analogy of the behaviors and movements, subtle forms of human behavior.

The Hill is the highest point that is observed in the whole horizon dominated by the spirit. By different paths of existence, it can descend from that point and go up again, going through the most extreme aspects from tragedy to comedy.

I like to climb a hill… but… climb a mountain?

Hill …upwards and Hill …downwards, are manifestations of being, which unfold in the same mythical, archetypal theme.

Hill down is a representation of that part of the being that in its experience has assimilated those events that in some way have formed or deformed it. Tragedy is the artistic manifestation associated with this mythological theme, plucked as a revelation from the unconscious. Thus, tragedy, as the fragmentation and the return to the configuration (the union) of archaic (archaizing) forms, is a downhill path where suffering allows the reconstruction of archetypal images.

In the comedy, represented in Colina hacia arriba, the unconscious seeks balance and manifests its exultation (joy) and leaves sadness behind for other moments, where the lord of time gloats.

Through these two fragmentations, the obscure paths through which “some” parts of the mind travel and through the tragic or pleasant (pleasurable, pleasing) experience that is aroused in each of them, the spirit tries, in its own way, to prevent them from dispersing, since it is certain that if it continues along the rational path, quite rough, it will only lead the being to become more disunited, more fragmented, and therefore to the disintegration of the inner self. The unconscious is no longer willing to allow reason one more chance; in its special way of participating (acting), it tries to show the emotions, from those elementary to the most complex, as an integral part of the higher capacities of the psyche: the aesthetic, intellectual and religious faculties.

In the manner of a shot that moves these higher capacities as a result of the “real” struggle that arises with the conscious part. This struggle of the spirit is what allows human evolution towards higher forms of being, such as art; but it also involves it when its results are not positive for the being.

Just as the confrontation between these two entities (the conscious and the unconscious) generates difficulties and pathological states of the mind, by blocking (impeding) the flow of evolution (favorable development) being trapped and repressed in the subconscious, so they give rise to higher mental states, either in an intellectualized way (the sciences) or sublimated (the arts).

One is dominated by tragedy and the other seeks compensation for the circumstance, and everything develops in a sleeping conscience, which in its wandering, the unconscious wants to manifest itself to excite it.

The hormonal systems are the best helpers that both the consciousness and the unconscious have to strengthen and defend both the physiological and the mental part of the being.

Perhaps the hormones that have a close and direct link with the psychic functions, are the ones we should be more attentive to and take greater care of their functioning. Thanks to this type of hormones, it is possible to disguise and hide almost all the appetites by which that subtle muscular part that enriches the soul, comes to wear out the spirit and offers us a demoralizing suffering. That is to say, the hormonal participation allows the human being to cope in a less aggressive way with the psychological aspects that are constantly affecting him, either by the stimuli of the physical and social environment, or by the own psychic structure of each individual.

As the various hormonal systems cease to function properly, the stimulating vectors become more direct and harmful (and inciting) to individual behavior.

This great “metapsychic” hormonal system is the main helper (assistant, collaborator) of the individual unconscious, and by extension, also of the collective unconscious; so named in this post, because it cannot yet be scientifically demonstrated. It is in this metapsychic system where the individual unconscious extracts the information to define the traces and routes (routes, paths) to “walk” through the different psychic paths of the being.

Let us keep in mind that the individual unconscious adjusts to its own trajectories, but sometimes it leaves them, abandoning them and is guided by other instinctive constructions, moving and orienting itself according to the process of the healing machination. Sometimes we also find it dazed and it leads itself to points where reason points it out as “wrong”.

They may be stimulated by the repressed consciousness and the damaged subconscious; the former frightened; the latter, daring, unbridled.

The great secret is that the unconscious helps itself in many ways, both in individual and collective practice. The hormonal systems -the psychic killer fundamentally- are a small part of what the physiological supports it, and the collective unconscious guides it towards universal strata, where the human being can fully develop.