Monday, April 24, 2006
conflict & disillusionment
Conflict confirms individuation as persons face the inevitable challenge of dismissing neither their own nor the other’s place, perspective, and prerogative within the group.
Disillusionment affirms the process of authenticating genuine relationality as individuals are freed from their illusions about one another and their community.
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Sounds Jungian...and I love how Jesus answers individuation and its [sadly] resulting detachment, which is with compassion. Compassion unites all the cells of humanity into a single living organism. A while back I passed by a person in suffering and I managed to feel nothing. I asked myself why. I was unto my own and a determined individual. On that day I began to pray for compassion. What's more, you get people like Rand who think that individuality is the highest goal of humanity and this is what you get: people who think and don't feel. Compassion heals.
Guilty as charged: it is Jungian. His ideas, even filtered through other voices, consistently capture my imagination.
Compassion is a wonderful word to bring into this conversation. Thanks for adding that dimension!
I draw a distinction between individuation and individualism. Individuation is a healthy process that makes us increasingly able to enter relationships.
Your final sentence brings to mind a Henry Miller quote...
“Everybody becomes a healer the moment he forgets about himself.”
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