Chapter 813 Mind and Shadow, The Island of Dreams

Yago is not sure about the condition of "clear cognition".

It's just a subjective conclusion he drew based on his hundreds of death observations.

However, he didn't think this guess was wrong.

Every time I am in a critical juncture, when I wake up, I can feel the "shadow" covering my body change and break away.

It's as if these shadows hang over him with his self-awareness and self-knowledge.

However, it was only about his own shadow.

In any case, his cognition of the outside world will not affect the outside world.

And, there is one more thing.

The "destroyed sequence pathway" that Attila once referred to.

The one related to "Wizard's Disappearance".

Under Atile's description, the sequential approach that allowed Yago to come to the conclusion of "life that exists in the form of cognition".

In Atile's statement, the so-called "path" is not the path to becoming a "god", but wizards, this group of seekers who feel like mad scientists, developed in order to pursue a higher level of life form direction.

The "cognition" pathway, the pathway that Attila mentioned the code name "Man of Thousand Faces".

"Persona".

To be honest, Yago can't be said to be familiar with things like "Persona", but he can't be said to be unfamiliar either.

After all, the settings related to the persona appeared in too many works in the previous life.

Psychology, soul, in a world without magical powers, in his previous life, was a very mysterious thing.

The biggest characteristic of psychology is "unprovable".

All theories are constructed by means of observation, summary and model analysis.

Because there is no means to directly observe the mind, no means to directly observe the process of mental activities.

Because of psychology, because of the unprovability of psychology, various genres have emerged.

The origins of these genres are also varied.

Some are "wild" psychologists who construct a mental model themselves.

Some are interdisciplinary scholars of other majors, such as biology and genetics, who link and analyze biological consciousness and psychology.

Some are journalism and media scholars, who start their research from the collective trend of mass psychology.

Some are people in society and even economics. Society is constructed by human beings, and the relationship between human beings and society is extremely close, but the specific relationship requires various studies.

And some are not scholars at all, but profit-driven businessmen.

It is not uncommon for drug companies to pay science columnists to write articles in order to sell their drugs.

Others are formed under the coercion of the masses and promoted by a certain group.

Human beings themselves are intelligent beings who can be affected by spirits.

The example of placebo and nocebo is enough to prove that they will have more or less physical changes because of what they believe.

"Psychological immutability" can be said to be the most ridiculous argument in Yago's previous life.

In Yago's previous life, there was a school of psychology that was very famous, or because of its intuitive and clear image, it was easier for people to understand and thus spread widely.

Psychoanalytic school.

In this school, there is a psychologist, a psychologist named "Carl Gustav Jung", who has established some concepts in his theory.

Mind, Consciousness, Individual Subconscious, Collective Subconscious

Mind is a holistic and comprehensive description of a person's spirit, and it can also be called "personality structure".

And "consciousness", "individual subconsciousness" and "collective subconsciousness" constitute the three parts of the whole mind.

Jung himself used a metaphor to illustrate:

"Those small islands out of the water are the consciousness that people can perceive"

"The part of the ground beneath the surface of the water, revealed by the ebb and flow of the tide, is the personal unconscious."

"And the bottom of the island is the seabed as the base, which is the collective subconscious mind"

These concepts can be seen in many fantasy works.

The reason is that the predecessors of these concepts were involved in various myths, and Yago learned about this psychologist.

Simply put, the consciousness in it is closer to the "self".

"Collective subconsciousness" is related to biology and genetics. It is not easy to understand. Combined with another part of psychologists, it can be said that the collective subconsciousness comes from the continuous natural evolution and elimination of the ancestors. Genetic commonality.

For example, the gene for violence is derived from the hunting and competition of the ancestors in the natural world. With this kind of gene, they have an advantage and survive, and the gene is also passed on.

Needless to say, the relationship between biology, genetics and psychology, most psychologists agree that the formation of psychology is partly related to genes.

The so-called "collective subconsciousness" is formed by the influence of various genes. This subconsciousness is difficult to detect, not obvious or even conscious.

Of course, as far as Yago knows, Jung himself did not say what kind of relationship the "collective subconscious" has with genes and biology. He just said that there is such a thing.

For example, psychology is a house, and Jung is a painter. After Jung drew the house, he introduced what kind of rooms and what it looked like in the house he drew, but Jung did not know what the specific house was made of. I can't tell how to know.

This is Jung's main doctrine, which also appears in many works.

But that's not the theory he's best known for.

Oh, it should be - Yago doesn't think this is his most famous theory.

His best known theory, Yago believes is.

"Personality archetypes".

Or prototype psychology.

A psychological composition based on the "collective subconscious" and further drawn.

For more complicated things, Yago didn't remember it himself.

He only remembered some rough outlines.

The collective subconscious itself is difficult to detect, but it does not exist. When it is perceived, it often appears in various more specific images.

But it is only "more specific".

Compared with a mass of mud, a clay puppet with an inconspicuous outline is concrete enough.

Yago remembered that there were mainly four kinds.

1. Personality mask: the external personality formed by people in social life because they are largely influenced by others and influenced by society.

2. Anima: The female image traits that are inherited in the mind, and men also have them.

3. Animus: The masculine image traits retained in the male psyche by inheritance, and females also have them.

4. Shadow: In other words, it is the "dark side", the dark self, which is closest to genetic storage, and the psychology that is not changed by the external environment and inherited, is also known as the "self".