#color quiz
Read my previous post on Psycho-Cybernetics first!
In my essay on Psycho-Cybernetics, I’m in some ways going far afield from the Jungian psychology that populates the rest of my blog. Psycho-Cybernetics presents a manual for optimism and worldly success, while Jung’s philosophy of the path to enlightenment leading through the Shadow parts of the personality is very, very different. Much of Jungian psychology is a meditation on the ugly parts of life. It involves including your worst tendencies in your self-image. However, I think that’s where the reconciliation lies. In terms of their structural understanding of the psyche, these two takes are comparable.
Jung once said that the first half of life should be dedicated to forming a healthy ego, and the second half to tearing it apart and going inwards. I think Psycho-Cybernetics is just such a manual for developing a “healthy ego”. And, in terms of its focus on optimism and goal-setting, it corresponds to the extraverted side of life, albeit simultaneously involving the introverted side through its use of imagination and Stoic independence.
In one line of Psycho-Cybernetics, Maltz admits that focusing on the negative once or twice per year is probably a good thing, presumably for keeping oneself humble and aware of one’s Shadow. A friend told me that there is a season for growth, and a season for tilling the soil and reducing everything to dirt. And I think that just such a cycle is the best course for young people. It doesn’t work to be the brooding melancholic all the time, even if there is a kind of wisdom associated with it. Neither is it sustainable to be a ball of sunshine forever. Without acknowledging the wrong things in life, they erode at the structure of the mind like rats or termites eating the timbers.
In terms of Max Luscher’s colour psychology, Psycho-Cybernetics surely corresponds to the Orange-Red side of life, and Jung to the Dark Blue; to the Animus and Anima of the personality respectively; to an elaboration of the Heroic Consciousness and the Deep Unconscious.
In terms of cybernetic theory, Maltz was influenced in part by Alfred Adler, Jung’s contemporary, who pioneered many aspects of the ideas of goal-directedness and success-striving. Jung was also well aware of the teleology of the psyche. He thought it was a forward-facing thing, rather than one dictated primarily by personal history as Freud thought.
These comments might seem random and incomplete, and they are. They’re the first attempts at a synthesis, the various works I’ve summarised on this blog coming together as a mosaic. I welcome any comments or suggestions for further reading!
I’m trying to find a color quiz, a very particular one in that you choose some colors that you like the most, then you choose some colors that you like the least, and at the every end the results pretty much peel back the layers of your soul and personality and inner conflict like tissue paper.
Anyone help a girl out?
if youre lgbtq+ take this quiz and see what color you got
i got #7fffd4 which is aquamarine !
i am a ,,,,,,,, dim grey
I am #483D8B which is darks slate blue!!
#483D8B Dark Slate Blue… thats kinda weird @5-is-a-tux
