Shadowing Practice: Quand vous devenez inaccessible - Carl Jung - Learn English Speaking with Video
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Imaginez que vous vous réveillez un jour et que vous réalisez
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que tout ce que vous croyez être votre identité était en fait le reflet des attentes des autres.
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Votre personnalité, vos opinions, vos peurs, tout est façonné par des forces invisibles,
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tirant votre vie comme des ficelles, tirant une marionnette.
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Carl Jung nous a mis en garde contre cette illusion.
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La plupart des gens ne vivent pas comme des individus authentiques, mais comme des projections d 'un système plus vaste.
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Dès la naissance, nous sommes programmés pour nous intégrer, pour suivre des règles, pour être acceptés.
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La société nous donne un nom, une nationalité, une culture et un ensemble de valeurs.
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Et sans nous en rendre compte, nous commençons à confondre cette identité construites avec qui nous sommes réellement.
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Mais voici la vérité inconfortable.
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Si vous n 'avez jamais remis en question ces conditionnements, vous n 'avez jamais été vraiment libre.
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Le psychiatre suisse
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Carl Jung a développé le concept d 'individuation,
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un processus psychologique profond par lequel un être humain devient véritablement lui -même un individu unique and authentic,
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liberate the invisible chain that makes it feel like this.
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However, this process is not happening alone.
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It is necessary to shock of consciousness, a heartbreak to realize how much you have been controlled until now.
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In this video, we will explore how external and internal forces influence your mind, you empychant of living a true freedom.
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Plongeons dans les mécanismes cachés de la manipulation psychologique et surtout comprenons comment l 'individuation peut vous libérer de tout cela.
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Parce qu 'une fois que vous vous réveillez, personne ni rien ne vous contrôlera plus jamais.
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Avez -vous déjà eu le sentiment que certaines décisions que vous prenez dans la vie ne vous appartiennent pas vraiment ?
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Comme si une force silencieuses vous pousser à agir d 'une certaine manière.
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Ce n 'est pas une coïncidence.
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Jung a découvert qu 'une grande partie de notre comportement ne vient pas de notre conscience, mais de l 'inconscient collectif.
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Un réservoir profond de modèles psychologiques hérités qui façonnent notre vision du monde sans même que nous nous en rendions compte.
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Depuis les temps les plus reculés, les êtres humains vivent sous des récits créés par society, the archetype of hero, the manager,
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the young girl, all these models exist in us and influence our actions.
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You don't act simply as individuals, you are immersed in a more vast story, in which your role was already written before your birth.
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The society defines what means to achieve, what means to be good or bad.
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These definitions are not from your individual consciousness, but rather from an ensemble of collective values which control your desires, your ambitions and even your fears.
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Jung describes the personality as the mask we wear to interact with the world.
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Dès l 'enfance, nous apprenons que certains comportements sont récompensés et d 'autres punis.
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Au fil du temps, nous ajustons notre personnalité pour être accepté, au travail, dans la famille, dans les relations.
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Mais voici le problème.
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Plus votre personnalité est forte, plus votre vrai moi devient faible.
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La personnalité peut être si convaincante que vous commencez à croire qu 'il s 'agit de votre véritable identité.
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If your personality is a gentile and nice person, you may never express your anger or your anger,
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becoming so an emotional marion.
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As we project this social mask on the world, something is happening in us.
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Everything that we reprimed accumulates in the ombre.
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L 'ombre est formée par des aspects de notre personnalité que nous nions, rejetons ou n 'acceptons pas.
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Ce sont des désirs, des impulsions et des pensées que nous considérons comme inappropriés,
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mais qui ironiquement continuent d 'influencer nos actions sans que nous nous en rendions compte.
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Lorsque quelqu 'un ressent une colère irrationnelle envers une autre personne, il projette souvent sur elle un aspect de lui -même qu 'il refuse d 'accepter.
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The same, when we idolatry or envying someone, it is perhaps because he represents a part of us who was reprimed.
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If you don't integrate your shadow, it will control you in the mirror.
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These are the three main mechanisms psychologics which control us in a way invisible.
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The unconscious collective which defines the roles we play in society.
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The person who pushes us to play to others and to hide our true identity.
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The mirror which stock everything we reject and, without control, we manipulate the inside.
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But these are not the only agents of control.
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There is something even more powerful that keeps us prisoners.
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The society itself and its mechanisms of manipulation.
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Jung said that the process of individuation is above all an act of liberation.
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But what do we do?
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The answer is simple and strange.
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You can't be free from the unconscious control exercised by society on your mind.
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We are now in a network of rules, values and expectations that make our vision of the world.
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What is considered as normal?
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What is considered as success?
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What means living a sense of life?
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These answers are made to us as absolute truths.
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The society creates stories that act like the cards of our existence.
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It's not a coincidence if many people consacrent their lives to continue those objectives which, at the point, have never really been their.
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A career prestigious, a ideal relationship, an image impeccable on social networks,
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all these objectives are often the reflection of an ideal collective and not an authentic desire.
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When we follow these schemes without them to question, we end up losing connection with our true essence.
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We make believe that we must fill certain roles to be accepted and respected.
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And the most dangerous in all this, it is that the more we conform, the more we believe agir in our own gré.
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Like Jung said, until you become conscious, the unconscious will be your life and you will call the destiny.
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The culture is like an invisible current which leads you to the direction it is appropriate.
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But the real danger is that you rarely realize that you are guided.
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Human beings are, by nature, social beings.
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The acceptance of the group was, in the antiquity, a question of survival.
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Being rejected meant death.
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Today, the mechanism remains the same, even if the dangers changed.
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How many times have you made your true opinions to avoid conflict?
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How many times have you adapted to the group to be accepted?
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This desire of social approbation is one of the most effective methods.
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We encourage you to conform, follow the norms, to you to integrate.
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The social networks amplify this phenomenon.
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Instead of expressing who you are really, you will find out to make your identity for receiving likes, comments and abonnements.
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But the question is to know who you are really when no one sees you.
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What Jung understood, it is that the real freedom cannot be attained until we are unconsciously committed to its social forces.
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The inevitable question is why you are going to submit?
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Why accept you these chains that you read without them re -re -re -sour question?
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The answer is the most deep of the human psyche.
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Carl Jung understood that the external control is only possible because there is a fertile ground that allows us.
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This terrain is made of our insecurity, our traumatism and our non -resolved complex.
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One of the main reasons why you let yourself control your desire to be exterged.
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This is a complex of inferiority, a constant feeling of not being quite good,
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not being at the height of the norm that you think you should respect.
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This complex appears often in childhood, when we learn to look for the approbation of the authority figures, parents, teachers.
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Later, this model is transferred to the desire of a more large approbation of parents,
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partners, patrons and even foreigners on the internet.
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You are conforming to be accepted because you believe,
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at a certain level, that you are dignified of love and respect if you correspond to the established rules.
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It is extremely powerful.
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Tant que vous recherchez la reconnaissance en dehors de vous -même,
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vous serez vulnérable à toute forme de manipulation qui promet de vous fournir ce que vous pensez manquer.
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Comme l 'a observé Jung, ceux qui n 'apprennent pas à gérer leur propre ombre finissent par être manipulés par elle.
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Lorsque vous dépendez de l 'approbation extérieure, pour vous sentir complet, toute critique, tout rejet ou tout échec peut vous dévaster.
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This makes vulnerable and so easy to control.
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Another powerful factor that facilitates the external control is the trauma -free non -resolved.
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The painful events of the past create emotional pain, which are hidden in the deepest of the psyche.
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These pain form a limit of who you are and what you deserve.
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If you have been rejected or humiliated, For example, you can develop a conscious belief in which you are not worthy of being loved.
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This belief, in its turn, makes you susceptible to accept every story that promises protection or belonging.
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What happens when you are committed to these forces for too long?
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A phenomenon known as the name of psychological conformism psychological.
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The conformity does not only mean to follow the social norms,
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it is a state of mind in which you interiorize the external expectations as if they were in your own.
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And the most frightening is that it is unconsciously happening.
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The human psyche has a natural mechanism that tries to avoid the discomfort at all point.
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Questioning the society, reject the external validation, affronting its own traumas, all this is painful.
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It is therefore easier to follow the current, to accept the texts prefabricated, and to believe that you are what society says you should be.
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But this comfort is illusory.
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In avoid confrontation with your true essence, you will be deprived of the process of individuality.
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Like Jung said, what you deny you is a commitment, what you accept you is a transform.
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If you don't accept your own truth, if you continue to reject your parts refoulées and conforming your external expectations,
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you will never become authentic.
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You will be just a projection of what society wants you to be.
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Now that we understand why we are committed, it is time to explore how to break these chains
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and start the real psychological process of freedom and the psychological power of the human being.
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Carl Jung said that the individual is the process by which a person becomes what she is, really.
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It seems simple, but in fact, it is one of the most complex and difficult that an human being can take.
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Why?
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Because becoming an individual, it is romper with everything that was imposed, consciously or unconscious, and discover your true essence.
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It is a process of integration, where you face the unknown in yourself and learn to accept what you have always tried to hide.
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The individuation is essentially a process of realization of oneself.
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It is not simply to become different from others, but to become complete.
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It means to integrate all aspects of your psyche, both conscious and unconscious.
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Jung understood that the human being is composed of several parts which, when they are ignored or reprimed, cause sufferings and manipulation.
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The work of individualism is to unite these parts, to accept them and to integrate them in a harmonious way.
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For this, we must confront ourselves.
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Many evite the individualism process because they need a painful confrontation with what is hidden in itself.
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The shadow is particularly afraid because it has all the traits that you consider as unacceptable.
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The envy, the anger, the egoism, the impulsions that represent your ideal personality.
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Jung has pointed out that as long as you have not integrated your ombre, she will continue to control you unconsciously.
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What you reject in yourself ends up being possessed.
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The integration process of the ombre means
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It is the most difficult step of the public to recognize, to admit that there are aspects of your personality that you would prefer to ignore.
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This is the first step, and the most difficult.
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Acceptation.
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Understand that these traits are part of you and that the niés make them only make them stronger.
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Accepting them is not to act on them in a way destructive, but to recognize them and to integrate them in a way sane.
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Expression creative.
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The elements of the ombre often reprimed can be expressed through creative activities.
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Art, writing, music.
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Jung supported that creativity is powerful tool to give a voice to the soul of the psyche.
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Quant à la personnalité, le défi est de la supprimer soigneusement, couche par couche, jusqu 'à ce qu 'il ne reste que ce qui est authentique.
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Cela ne signifie pas abandonner complètement les masques que vous portez dans la vie sociale, mais plutôt ne pas les confondre avec votre véritable moi.
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L 'individuation est douloureuse, car elle exige de renoncer à des illusions confortables, mais c 'est aussi le seul chemin vers la véritable liberté.
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When you become whole, no one can more manipulate you.
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During the process of individuation, many illusions must die, and with them, parts of you seemed essential,
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but were only the reflection of the other's expectations.
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Jung knew perfectly that being authentic,
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authentic means abandoning the comfort of conformism and face the hard reality of being unique in a world that privileges the conformism.
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When you start to individualize yourself, something curious is happening.
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People around you start to feel that you are no longer the same.
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You become less predictable, less easy to categorize.
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It is uncomfortable for those who are still stuck in the rigid models of behavior and thoughts.
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The psychological freedom is solitary because most people don't want to face their own eyes.
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They prefer to continue to follow the scenario imposed by society, even if it means to live a life without authenticity.
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Jung affirmed that the solitude is not due to not having people around you, but the the inability to communicate the things that you seem important.
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The more you progress in the process of individuation, the more you realize that some conversations seem empty,
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some groups seem limited, some relationships seem superficially, and it is natural to feel isolated.
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But this solitude is not a waste, it is a necessary step.
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For to find out, we must be able to get out of the voices who tells us who we must be.
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The process of individualization is not only difficult because of isolation,
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it is also a challenge because you will be confronted with resistance both internal and external.
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The unconscious, he -même, rebel against change.
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Your difficulties, your fears, do everything they can to keep you in the old schemes.
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It is a common sense of anxiety, fear and even guilt to follow authentic path.
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It is like leaving a security of a port and leaving the unknown.
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The people who surround you, especially those who take advantage of your conformity, will make you fall.
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Relations can be崩ified families can become hostile, but not because these people are necessarily more numerous,
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but because their growth enables them to face what they even have ignored.
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When you become authentic, you break the unconscious pact of conformism, and those who live in this state feel menaced,
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prefer to bring you to comfort the collective mediocrity.
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Joseph Campbell, largely inspired by Jung's work, describes the hero's archetype as someone who quittes the comfort of the known to face challenges,
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acquire knowledge and return to transform.
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The journey of the hero is essentially a process of individualization.
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The hero is looking for himself, confront monsters that symbolize his own fears and complex,
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and finally comes with a treasure which is his inner truth.
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This universal myth is symbolic reflection of the individual.
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The process by which you face your own mirror, confront your personality and become whole.
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But, like mythological hero, you must be prepared to face rejection, isolation and fear.
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The price of psychological freedom is the loss of the illusion of security.
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However, what you get back is impossible to find comparablement more precious.
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A authentic life, guided by your own centre, and not by the external norms that serve you.
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You arrived here, you have explored how invisible forces,
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social, psychological and cultural, manipulate you, without even knowing you.
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He understood that the true psychological freedom can be attained only by the individual, the process of the pain
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but the transformator of the integration of all aspects of your psyche and of the discovery of who you are really.
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Jung has dedicated his life to break his mind of the human mind.
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For him, the individual was not only a theoretical concept but a existential necessity.
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Without this process, you are condemned to live like the reflection of the other's expectations, without ever knowing your true potential.
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You realize now that the freedom you desire tant cannot be given by no one.
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It does not come from the social approach, the material success, or an identity so badly built to plaire to others.
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The true freedom is possible when you are able to look inside and accept everything you find the trauma you ignore,
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the shadows you reprie, the croyances you accept without asking questions, all this must be put in light.
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It is then that you can you free from all the forces who try to control you.
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But this freedom has a price.
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It requires courage, knowledge of oneself and a desire to face discomfort.
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It's a process that will often be solitary and painful, but it's also the only path to an authentic existence.
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Like Jung said, who looks outside, dreams.
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who looks inside, wakes up.
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When you wake up, no one can never control you,
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because you are not a projection of the others, but an entire individual.
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Now I ask you, are you ready to start your own journey of individuality to romper with all what you are
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and discover who you are really.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This speaking lesson is built on the video “Quand vous devenez inaccessible - Carl Jung”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: vous, Jung, que, process, nous. This video has 212 sentences and 3075 words to shadow. The speech runs for 22:13. The speaker talks at a steady 138 words per minute, a comfortable pace for shadowing. Only 68% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English, so the vocabulary is demanding.
Key vocabulary in this video
15 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| authentic adjective | /ɔˈθɛn.tɪk/ | Of the same origin as claimed; genuine. |
| psychological adjective | /ˌsaɪ.kəˈlɑː.d͡ʒɪ.kl̩/ | Of or pertaining to psychology. |
| unconscious adjective | /ˌʌnˈkɑnʃəs/ | Not awake; having no awareness (usually as the result of a head injury). |
| psychology noun | /saɪˈkɑ.lə.d͡ʒi/ | The study of the human mind. |
| integrate verb | /ˈɪn.tɪ.ɡɹeɪt/ | To include as a constituent part or functionality. |
| pour verb | /poɹ/ | To cause (liquid, or liquid-like substance) to flow in a stream, either out of a container or into it. |
| expectation noun | /ˌɛk.spɛkˈteɪ.ʃən/ | The act or state of expecting or looking forward to an event as about to happen. |
| ignore verb | /ɪɡˈnɔː/ | To deliberately not listen or pay attention to. |
| comfort noun | /ˈkʌm.fət/ | Contentment, ease. |
| painful adjective | /ˈpeɪn.fl̩/ | Causing pain or distress, either physical or mental. |
| collective adjective | /kəˈlɛktɪv/ | Formed by gathering or collecting; gathered into a mass, sum, or body. |
| mechanism noun | /ˈmɛk.ə.nɪ.zəm/ | Any mechanical means for the conversion or control of motion, or the transmission or control of power. |
| carl noun | /kɑɹl̩/ | A rude, rustic man; a churl. |
| reflection noun | /ɹɪˈflɛkʃən/ | The act of reflecting or the state of being reflected. |
| invisible adjective | /ɪnˈvɪzəb(ə)l/ | Unable to be seen; out of sight; not visible. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| end up verb | To bring to a conclusion. | |
| wake up verb | /ˌweɪk ˈʌp/ | To stop sleeping; to awake. |
| find out verb | To discover, as by asking or investigating. | |
| get back verb | Return to where one came from. | |
| get out of verb | To leave, exit or escape from; to become free of. | |
| point out verb | To identify among a group of similar subjects, or in a scene where the subject might not be readily seen or noticed, with a gesture of the body. |
Sentences worth repeating
Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:
- How many times have you made your true opinions to avoid conflict?
- How many times have you adapted to the group to be accepted?
- The inevitable question is why you are going to submit?
- What happens when you are committed to these forces for too long?
Grammar in this video
The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:
| Structure | In the video |
|---|---|
| Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it | have been controlled · are immersed · was reprimed |
| Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now | have been controlled · have never really been · have been rejected |
| Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thing | person who pushes · pain, which are · those who are |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 5 contractions and reduced forms, such as don't, can't. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “th” sounds: authentic /ɔˈθɛn.tɪk/, worthy /ˈwɝ.ði/, myth /mɪθ/, theoretical /ˌθi.əˈɹɛt.ɪ.kəl/
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: unconscious /ˌʌnˈkɑnʃəs/, expectation /ˌɛk.spɛkˈteɪ.ʃən/, reflection /ɹɪˈflɛkʃən/, illusion /ɪˈl(j)uːʒ(ə)n/, manipulation /məˌnɪp.juˈleɪ.ʃən/
- Long words — get the stress right: psychological /ˌsaɪ.kəˈlɑː.d͡ʒɪ.kl̩/, psychology /saɪˈkɑ.lə.d͡ʒi/, expectation /ˌɛk.spɛkˈteɪ.ʃən/, mechanism /ˈmɛk.ə.nɪ.zəm/, invisible /ɪnˈvɪzəb(ə)l/
How to practise with this video
- Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
- Shadow it sentence by sentence at normal speed, repeating each one until your rhythm matches the speaker.
- Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like authentic, psychological, unconscious.
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