Value System
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Definition
Applications
We Can Discover Our Values By Looking Into Symbolic Background of Our Psychological Structure
Jung was very interested in the Nietzschean problem, more interested in it than anything else. Because he knew that the question of where we would derive our values from and how we would ground them in some sort of underlying solid underlying reality would become, was the paramount psychological question of the age. And he spent his entire life attempting to address that. Jung’s idea was that we weren’t going to be able to create our own values because human beings cannot create their own values. You know that if you observe your own action, if you observe your own being. You can make resolutions and try to act in particularly way. Maybe in way that you regard as better. But you’ll find out very rapidly that you can’t enslave yourself and tell yourself what to do so easily, even when you’re motivated to do good things, ya know? When you make new year’s resolutions, and say you’re going to eat properly and go to the gym, that generally lasts about a week! And so you can’t boss yourself around as it turns out no more than you can really boss other people around and it’s because you do have a nature. You have a nature. And you can’t just arbitrarily mold and shape that nature because you, like other people, will rebel against your own will and so. And so Jung’s contention was that we would have to go inside ourselves, that’s how he looked at it, into the symbolic background of our psychological structure and rediscover what we had lost. [1]
Interpretations
You can’t even look at things in the world if you don’t have a value system.
Your emotional health depends on having a value system.
Your relationship to other people depend on a value system.
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