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Motor Jax
04-22-2008, 09:01 AM
i've been reading about the works of Rudolf Otto, C.G. Jung, Mircea Eliade, Freud, Marx, Weber and others.

Parapraxes (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.) and Numinosity (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.)

Jung concludes that:

C. G. Jung picked up on the idea of parapraxes and tried to explain their occurrence with his concept of the shadow. Jung’s notion of the shadow has both personal and collective aspects. An irruption of shadow contents into daytime activities could stem from an unresolved personal complex, the larger forces of the collective unconscious1 or some combination of the two. For Jung, unintended slips don’t always refer exclusively to the person making them. They can point to an entire situation among several or perhaps many people.

and:

How we respond to mistakes is crucial. Jung felt that the self is on a natural trajectory toward wholeness. That is, nature heals and corrects. And since mankind sprung from nature, Jung believed that increased psychological awareness increases our mastery over the environment. Thus for Jungians, self-knowledge translates to increased confidence as well as new vitality and a sense of meaning.

A Parapraxis is:
an unusual word that might intimidate those unfamiliar with psycho-analytic theory. But it’s a pretty simple idea. In the Psychopathology of Everyday Life Freud says parapraxes are unintentional acts resulting from an unconscious wish, desire, attitude or thought (London: Penguin, 2002 [1901]).

in Wiki, a parapraxis is also called the Freudian Slip (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.)

now, my question is, is it really an unconcious response or could it be that something is buried deeper into the psyche?

my opinion, however, concludes that it is an unconcious act based off past experiences.

thoughts or opinions?

Grizzly
04-23-2008, 01:15 AM
took a bit with the dictionary and Wiki but heres my 2 cents.

I follow with your opinion to a certain degree, stating that ?parapraxies? occur as the result of an unconscious desire, I think that saying the desire is based on past experiences is over simplifying.

Unconscious motivations would stem from perceived needs and past experiences. Though I'm sure I'm missing some other potential sources.

But I do tend to lean towards the idea that each person contains at least 2 personalities within their own Pysche. The public personality representing the combination of the other personalities or at least their thinking.
So the unconcious needs could would start somewhere in one of those other personalities and the parapraxis occuring represents the momentary shift of control from the public personality to the one of the other personalities.

In my opinion some of those personalities would be hidden deeply within the Psyche, perhaps a holdover from the early childhood years when the persons Identity was still developing. In the case that a parapraxis occurs from this level it would qualify as the "something deeper" you mentioned.
And other personalities would be very close to the surface, those being the ones where when parapraxies occur it is the result of an unconscious desire or need.

Kind of off topic, but heres a question:
Is the Edipus/Electra complex a paraxis? Or is it the result of multiple paraxies?
Or does it classify as something entirely different