Personal Construction of the “Ego”: A Prenatal Discovery of the Body
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For Sigmund Freud, founder of psychoanalysis, the Unconscious is characterized by the fact that it is born from the repression of impulses. For Carl Jung, on the other hand, the Unconscious is made up of everything that is not conscious. According to Jung: “It is inherent to reality and to the communication of the conscious with the Unconscious, and allows the becoming of the individual”. He called it “collective” because its pictorial manifestations, the archetypes, were common to all human beings. For 20 years he searched, with the physicist Wolfgang Pauli, for an extra-personal origin of the Unconscious, called “synchronicity”. The study of near-death experiences sheds new light on this question: the last image the dying man/woman sees would be himself a few weeks before his birth. The ego is believed to be built in the fetal stage around the discovery of the body, and to remain unchanged until brain death. Personalism would describe the fetus’ access to self-consciousness by discovering his body.
Keywords: Consciousness, Carl Jung, Ego, Near-Death Experience, Noosphere
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Persoons, D. J., & Bryde, J. I. (2023). Personal Construction of the “Ego”: A Prenatal Discovery of the Body. European Journal of Theology and Philosophy, 3(2), 9–18. Retrieved from https://ej-theology.org/index.php/theology/article/view/97
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