Bast Part 1

I'm going to past and edit each section and then put it back in the paper... so here we go... part 1.

Her name was originally Pasht (Bast...,2016) and then B'sst which became Ubaste, then Bast, then Bastet; the meaning of this name is not known or, at least, not universally agreed upon. Geraldine Pinch claims that "her name probably means She of the Ointment Jar" as she was associated with protection and protective ointments (115). The Greeks associated her closely with their goddess Artemis and believed that, as Artemis had a twin brother (Apollo) so should Bast. They associated Apollo with Horus, the son of Isis(Heru-sa-Aset) and so called the goddess known as Bast ba'Aset (Soul of Isis) which would be the literal translation of her name with the addition of the second 'T' to denote the feminine (Aset being among the Egyptian names for Isis).
Bastet, however, was also sometimes linked with the god of perfume and sweet smells, Nefertum, who was thought to be her son and this further links the meaning of her name to the ointment jar. The most obvious understanding would be that, originally, the name meant something like She of the Ointment Jar (Ubaste) and the Greeks changed the meaning to Soul of Isis as they associated her with the most popular goddess in Egypt. Even so, scholars have come to no agreement on the meaning of her name.  (Mark,2016)

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There has been much debate on Bastet's name over the years. In its original spelling it would have been pronounced as Ubaste. Many scholars have debated her name, the original most likely meaning would have been "She of the Ointment Jar", which made sense as she was known to protect different ointments and perfumes over the years. She also guarded the Jar in which Ra's enemy Apophis was said to have been locked away in. She was also linked to the god of sweet smells and perfume, Nefertum, who was said to be her son. This further goes to support that translation of her name. However, once the Greeks came into the picture they began to associate her with Artimis, who had a twin brother - Apollo whom they associated with Horus. Because of this they tried to say that Bast and Horus were connected, so for the first of many, her name was changed. She became known as ba'Aset, which means "Soul of Isis". (Mark,2016) A later change to her name would be when her position as Lower Egypt's protector led to her being connected to "the more substantial goddess Mut, whose cult had risen to power with that of Amun, and eventually being syncretized with her as Mut-Wadjet-Bast (Lady,2012)."

one of the oldest versions of the goddess Bast was known by the name 'Pasht', from which our word passion was derived. (Bast...,2016)

Frankl

Viktor Frankl
Viktor Emil Frankl, M.D., Ph.D. was Professor of Neurology and Psychiatry at the University of Vienna Medical School. Frankl held lectures at 209 universities on all 5 continents. He was Visiting Professor at Harvard and at universities in Pittsburgh, San Diego and Dallas. The U.S. International University in California installed a special chair for logotherapy - this is the psychotherapeutic school founded by Frankl, often called the "Third Viennese School" (after Freud's psychoanalysis and Adler's individual psychology.) He received 29 honorary doctorates from universities in all parts of the world. 

Frankl was a Neurologist and psychiatrist as well as the Founder of Logotherapy and Existential Analysis. He is also a holocaust survivor - during World War II he spent 3 years in various concentration camps, including Theresienstadt, Auschwitz, and Dachau. 

Frankl authored 39 books which to date (2016) have been published in 48 languages. His last two books are "Man's Search for Ultimate Meaning" and "Viktor Frankl - Recollections", both published in 1997. Up to 1997 the book "Man's Search for Meaning" had sold over nine million copies in the USA alone. 
(Vesly,2016)

Phenomenology

t The science of phenomena as distinct from that of the nature of being.

• - an approach that concentrates on the study of consciousness and the objects of direct experience.

used with Existential Analysis.


Existentialism

Existential Analysis can be defined as a phenomenological and person-oriented psychotherapy, with the aim of leading the person to (mentally and emotionally) free experiences, to facilitate authentic decisions and to bring about a truly responsible way of dealing with life and the world. Thus, Existential Analysis can be applied in cases of psychosocial, psychosomatic and psychological caused disorder in experience and behaviour.

The psychotherapeutic process takes place via phenomenological analysis of the emotions as the centre of experiences. Biographical work and empathic listening by the therapist contribute to an improvement in emotional understanding and accessibility.

Existential Analysis was conceived by Viktor E. Frankl in the 1930s as an anthropological theory of an existential school of psychotherapy. At the same time Frankl developed “Logotherapy” as a meaning-oriented form of counselling and treatment. (Existential...,2016)

Logotherapy teaches that it is not we who can ask life, "WHY, WHY, WHY...?" Rather, it is Life, who is the questioner. We have to respond to Life's questions! We answer to Life by listening for discernment of the meaning of the moment; then, by making responsible decisions within our available area of freedom. Our choices will be based on our values and guidance received from the voice of our conscience. 

The lack of meaning in life results in an existential vacuum (Foord,2016)

Logotherapy
It is a method of counselling or helping in the quest for meaning.

The practical application of logotherapy as a meaning-oriented form of counselling and treatment consists primarily in assisting people who are not (yet) ill, but who suffer from a sense of loss of existential orientation. Thus, logotherapy is widely applicable in psychological, psychohygenic, social, preventive, caring, educational and pastoral fields. It contributes to the prophylaxis of disorders and to the prevention and treatment of feelings of meaninglessness and emptiness (“existential vacuum”). Its aim is to enhance the individual experience of meaning by leading to a freely chosen responsibility (“individual responsibility”).

Existential Analysis and Logotherapy consist of roughly a dozen specific methods and techniques to realise this conception. Leading a meaningful life means doing what one has sensed and recognized as being valuable. (Existential...,2016)

Basic assumptions of logotherapy: 

1. Life has meaning under all circumstances.
2. People have a will to meaning.
3. People have freedom under all circumstances to activate the will to meaning and to find meaning. (Foord,2016)

Tragic Triad
The tragic triad is a term used in logotherapy, coined by Dr. Viktor Frankl. The tragic triad refers to three experiences which often lead to existential crisis/existential vacuum:  guilt, suffering or death.


Religion
"You see,” he added, “I don’t shy away, I don’t feel debased or humiliated if someone suspects that I’m a religious person for myself . . . . If you call ‘religious’ a man who believes in what I call a Supermeaning, a meaning so comprehensive that you can no longer grasp it, get hold of it in rational intellectual terminology, then one should feel free to call me religious, really. And actually, I have come to define religion as an expression, a manifestation, of not only man’s will to meaning, but of man’s longing for an ultimate meaning, that is to say a meaning that is so comprehensive that it is no longer comprehensible . . . But it becomes a matter of believing rather than thinking, of faith rather than intellect. The positing of a supermeaning that evades mere rational grasp is one of the main tenets of logotherapy, after all. And a religious person may identify Supermeaning as something paralleling a Superbeing, and this Superbeing we would call God.” ("God in...,2010)

Conscience
The concept of conscience is at the heart of Logotherapy, the mechanism which enables a person to become attuned to that which is the “main concern” of a human being: meaning. It is to be distinguished from the Freudian concept of the superego, a dimension within the structure of the personality that is an amalgam of all the moralizing forces in a persons’ life, be they the person’s religious or ethical upbringing, and/or societal norms and mores. The superego, fully installed within the personality, exerts itself upon the ego to prevent the self from fulfilling drives that originate in the id, thereby bringing the self in line with these rules that have been “stored” there. The conventional wisdom refers to the superego as conscience, and therefore it is difficult to articulate Frankl’s idea of conscience without first teasing the concepts of “superego” and “conscience” apart, and establishing first that these concepts are not synonymous. 
Frankl elsewhere makes clear that superego and conscience cannot be the same item, since there are occasions where a person, following the dictates of his or her conscience, has to take a stand against the moral messages of his or her superego, and actually betray his or her superego in order to obey his or her conscience.  (Conscience Defined,2010)



Love
"Love is the only way to grasp another human being in the innermost core of his personality.  No one can become fully aware of the essence of another human being unless he loves him.  by his love he is enabled to see the essential traits and features of the beloved person; and even more, he sees that which is potential in him, which is not yet actualized but yet ought to be actualized.  Furthermore, by his love, the loving person enables the beloved person to actualize these potentialities.  By making him aware of what he can be and of what he should become, he makes these potentialities come true..."  (Frankl,2006)

When we experience something—such as goodness, truth, or beauty, to use Frankl’s examples—we bring ourselves into relationship with that thing. The goodness, truth, and beauty that we see around us enter into us, and become a part of us. We are engaged with them, and they are engaged with us in their own way.

And of course, when we experience another human being we enter into a relationship with him or her. Frankl writes that the only way to grasp other human beings as they truly are at their innermost core is to love them. In Frankl’s psychotherapeutic system of “logotherapy,” love is as fundamental and powerful a force in human life as are the drives for sex and power.

Love, together with awareness and understanding, is what brings us into relationship with the people and things around us. In essence, love is relationship. - Essentially Love is one of the things that gives us meaning in life. (Woofenden,2016)

"Conscience Defined." Viktor Frankl's Logotherapy. Wordpress, 25 June 2010. Web. Nov. 2016.
 Existential Analysis Society of Canada. "What Is Existential Analysis? | Existential Analysis Canada." Existential Analysis Canada RSS. Wordpress, n.d. Web. Nov. 2016.
Foord, Michael. "INTRODUCTION TO VIKTOR FRANKL'S LOGOTHERAPY." Introduction to Logotherapy and Viktor Frankl. N.p., n.d. Web. Nov. 2016.
Frankl, Viktor E. Man's Search for Meaning. Boston: Beacon, 2006. 111-15.Web.Nov.2016
"God in Viktor Frankl's Logotherapy 1995." Interview by Mathew Sculley. OneDaring Jew. Wordpress, 27 May 2010. Web. Nov. 2016.
Vesly, K. "VIKTOR FRANKL INSTITUT. Life and Work." VIKTOR FRANKL INSTITUT. Life and Work. IMAGNO, n.d. Web. Nov. 2016.
Woofenden, Lee. "Viktor Frankl on Meaning through Relationship: It’s All About Love and Understanding." Spiritual Insights for Everyday Life. Wordpress, 12 Dec. 2013. Web. Nov. 2016.

Wednesday to do... OGSD

OGSD (Operation get shit done) is in affect

1. Frankl Paper - Due at 10am
2. Do the PE workout thing.. ew.. due Thurs
3. Study for PE test 
4. Read Bast Research and draw up an outline
5. Fill in putline - write Bast paper - Due Dec 5
6. Write Essay of Place - Due Dec 8th
7. Write Kelpie short story - Due Dec 8th

Jung Paper Final - notes

I think I will structure this papaer differently than the first ---  this one will have subtitles. 

• Jung
• With Freud
• Separated from Freud 
•  3 tears of the mind - Psyche
•  Ego/Conscious
•   Unconscious 
• personal Unconscious
• collective Unconscious 
• Archetypes

Carl Jung was an early supporter of Freud because of their shared interest in the unconscious. He was an active member of the the Vienna Psychoanalytic Society (formerly known as the Wednesday Psychological Society).When the International Psychoanalytical Association formed in 1910 Jung became president at the request of Freud.However in 1912 while on a lecture tour of America Jung publicly criticized Freud’s theory of the Oedipus complex and his emphasis on infantile sexuality. The following year this led to an irrevocable split between them and Jung went on to develop his own version of psychoanalytic theory. 

(McLeod, 2014)

Jung decided to study medicine, but also developed an interest in spiritual phenomena while in school. It was this fascination with medicine and spirituality that led him into the field of psychiatry, which he viewed as a combination of his two interests.In 1902, he completed his doctoral dissertation, titled "On the Psychology and Pathology of So-Called Occult Phenomena" and graduated from University of Basel with a medical degree.Early in his career, Jung worked with psychiatric patients at the University of Zürich asylum. In 1906, he wrote Studies in Word Association and sent a copy to Sigmund Freud. The event served as the beginning of a friendship between the two men. When the two finally met in person in 1907, they reportedly spent more than 12 hours talking non-stop.

His time spent working with Sigmund Freud had a major impact on Jung’s later theories and helped him develop a fascination for the unconscious mind. Jung wanted to further understanding of the human mind through dreams, myth, art and philosophy. Initially, Freud viewed Jung as his protégé, but the friendship began to dissolve as Jung started to develop his own ideas that diverged from Freud's views.Eventually, Jung began to separate from Freudian theory, rejecting Freud's emphasis on sex as the sole source of behavior motivation. It was during this period of intense self-analysis that Jung became increasingly interested in dreams and symbols, later using what he learned during this time as the basis for his theories of psychology.

(Cherry,2016)

Conscious --> Just use notes from class

Personal unconscious

The first layer called the personal unconscious is essentially the same as Freud’s version of the unconscious. The personal unconscious contains temporality forgotten information and well as repressed memories. Jung (1933) outlined an important feature of the personal unconscious called complexes. A complex is a collection of thoughts, feelings, attitudes and memories that focus on a single concept.The more elements attached to the complex, the greater its influence on the individual. Jung also believed that the personal unconscious was much nearer the surface than Freud suggested and Jungian therapy is less concerned with repressed childhood experiences. It is the present and the future, which in his view was the key to both the analysis of neurosis and its treatment.

(McLeod, 2014)

Jung and Evil

When it [shadow] appears as an archetype…it is quite within the possibility for a man to recognize the relative evil of his nature, but it is a rare and shattering experience for him to gaze into the face of absolute evil.¹

(Earthpages,2011)

-  It is better to face one's shadow and bring it from the unconcious to the concious so that it can be controlled, rather than it be in control. 

Jung believed that Archetypes showed up in the collective unconcious. 

Collective unconscious

Jung believed the collective unconscious was a reservoir of all the experience and knowledge of the human species (Cherry,2016)

However by far the most important difference between Jung and Freud is Jung’s notion of the collective (or transpersonal) unconscious. This is his most original and controversial contribution to personality theory. This is a level of unconscious shared with other members of the human species comprising latent memories from our ancestral and evolutionary past. ‘The form of the world into which [a person] is born is already inborn in him, as a virtual image’ (Jung, 1953, p. 188).According to Jung the human mind has innate characteristics “imprinted” on it as a result of evolution. These universal predispositions stem from our ancestral past.  

(McLeod, 2014)

Jung and religion ---> just use notes from class. 

CITATION

Cherry, Kendra. "A Profile of Psychologist Carl Jung." Verywell. About.com, 2016. Web. Nov. 2016.

Earthpages.org. "Throwing Light on the Shadow: Carl Jung’s Answer to Evil." Earthpages.org. Wordpress, 01 Mar. 2011. Web. Nov. 2016.

McLeod, Saul. "Saul McLeod." Simply Psychology. Creative Commons, 01 Jan. 2014. Web. Nov. 2016.

bunch of thoughts - couldn't decide one a title

this blog will be in sections....a few mini blogs all put on the same post haha


I
I just got done critiquing the work of my classmates, one girl in particular i really went to town on. I wasn't mean but I was straight forward about what the issues with her paper were. I really wanted to educate her on what was wrong with the paper, all in all it should be an easy fix. But with only a few lines she went from literary journalism to an argumentative paper. BIG difference. And i did my best to point out where she needed more research and where things needed to change in order to be the correct form for the assignment. I wasn't harsh, and i even complimented her writing skills.

guys....

if this si what it would be like to be a writing mentor.... i REALLY hope i get the job next semester.

II
I have so many papers to write.... as seen in previous post. But i just read several essays and i cleaned today and ran errands. And i'm probably going to tackle some spanish.... maybe not. probably not. I have so much to do but i was productive today and i kind of want to veg out and watch anime now. my "get up and go do stuff"  mood got up and went without me. haha.

III
I want to write so bad.  Go to a secluded area, all by myself for like... a month or two. All by myself. Me and my writing. Music. Tea. No school and no work. No outer stress. Just......writing and creativity abounding.

I can't do that here... i feel the stress of school assignments clogging the drain of my creativity.
I want to go on a retreat....have an escape... and relax. write.

Papers to write

• Carl Jung - due monday
• Racheal's essay rewritten --> i  have been given permission to make it a full essay instead of a short short. that way i can give examples and scenes instead of just summary.  - Due thursday
• Victor Frankl - Nov 30th --> thursday
• Bunger's Bast Paper - Dec 5th
• Essay of Place - Dec.5th
• Kelpie short story re-written - Dec 5th ---> I think

Victor Frankl terms:

Phenomenology

Existentialism

Meaning

Logotherapy

Tragic Triad

Religion

Coscience

Love

plateau

NN and I have reached steady ground again, i think. I hope.