When I studied Psychology I was always in the Direction of a Jungian Pschologist
Freud sort of started psychotherapy not directly tied to Church Counseling but he thought that all problems had to do with Sex and I disagree with this.
However, I have always felt that celibacy in churches (whatever they might be) often makes people a little crazy in the same way that when people stop eating food and only drinking water makes them halucinate and sort of crazy too.
I think this is a part of the human condition where you have to have food and sexuality in balance somehow and people reach this balance hopefully on an individual basis in a way that works both for them and for society at large.
But, I feel Celibacy is just as potentially dangerous as people who stop eating and only drink water for months at a time.
But, also, I had a friend who would do a 40 day fast almost every year and he stayed relatively sane and normal and lived to be 82 years old and only passed away this year.
Carl Jung was a student of Freud but his way of looking at the subconscious was that it was full of symbols which I agree with.
I also read books by one of Carl Jung's patients who was Herman Hesse because I found them helpful as a young person to read especially "Siddhartha".
However, I also found Narcisus and Goldmund, and Magister Ludi really important too especially for college age kids trying to make more sense of their lives.
But I couldn't really get through Steppenwolf at the time because I was still afraid of the wolf inside of me until I married and had a child and stopped being afraid of myself any more really at all.
Suicide was calling me until I got married had a son and then my life became more about them than me which was exactly what I needed to stay alive after 25. I got married and had a son at age 26.
Psychology I found very helpful in trying to understand myself along with Philosophy.
The ability to ask yourself useful questions (if you are brave enough ) is one of the many keys to survival (If you are brave enough to ask these questions).
People who never asked these questions I noticed often died between 25 and 45 a lot.
Set in India, Siddhartha
is the story of a young Brahmin's search for ultimate reality after
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Journey of Siddhartha
from a Brahman to enlightenment, exploring voluntary poverty, love,
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Siddhartha
is an allegorical novel by Hermann Hesse which deals with the spiritual
journey of an Indian boy called Siddhartha during the time of the
Buddha.
Over seventy-five years after its initial publication, Hermann Hesse's Siddhartha enjoys the status of a minor literary classic. Yet, despite its continuing ...
Siddhartha:
An Indian novel is a 1922 novel by Hermann Hesse that deals with the
spiritual journey of self-discovery of a man named Siddhartha during the
time of the Gautama Buddha. The book, Hesse's ninth novel, was written
in German, in a simple, lyrical style.Wikipedia
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