The collective unconsciousness does not contain in itself for example great mothers, mandala circles, pyramids, pentagrams, and swastikas as images, but it promptstheir appearance as reactions of the psyche concerned. Undeniablyidentical symbols and practices recur in the mostunlikelysocieties dividedby oceans and centuries that have had no conceivable contactswitheach other, on the other hand this couldbe due to some standardization withinthe basic function matrix of human psyches, without the need to evoke forces outside the individualsconcerned, I myself am somewhat confused on the whole matter, but the 'collective unconsciousness' is a concept which has stood the testof time. Another name for it, or something similar is 'transpersonal layers of experience' as described by therapist StanislavGroff40 and philosopher Ken Wilbur41. StanislavGroff reached the transpersonal layer withLSD experiments, but after the 'war against drugs' panic generated by the social shock from the 'hippies', and the outlawing of LSD, Groff was forced to develop a breathing exercise - 'holotropic breathwork' - which brought resultssimilar to the ingestionof LSD, peyote, psilocybin mushrooms etc. Perhaps the 'breathwork' in some intense sexual rituals, coupled with all whichwe have examined, facilitates additionally the emergence of archetypal material, of gods and demons participating in the act?
Let us return to the individual layer of experience although
BF sexual activities concern specific body functions, includingexcretal such, I believe that the socalled
'scat' and 'water sport' activities(rituals focused exclusivelyon contact withor ingestionof feces and
C.G. Jung, 'Die Archetypen und das kollektive Unbewusste' (Bulgarian edition), 1999
StanislavGroff, 'Realms of Human Unconscious: Observations fromLSD Reasearch', Viking Press 1975.
'The Adventure of Selfdiscovery. Dimensions of Consciousness' (Bulgarian edition)
Ken Wilbur, 'The Spectrum of Consciousness' (Bulgarian edition), 2001.
'Integral Psychology. Consciousness, Spirit, Psychology, Therapy' (Bulgarian edition), 2005
urine) are not 'BF games' they concern a 'higher' level of mental functioning - not the basic
layer of character formative shocks, but the meaning in Superego terms, a more sophisticated
significance, attached to the practiced activities. For instance 'disgust', mentioned by Freud42
as a mental barrierof the standard type ego from 'positive perversity'.
So while the standard 'sublimation' of forbidden impulses isachieved through Superego approved social activities,
like buying a certain tie, insteadof whisking out one's erect penis to prove potency
sexual activities inwhichthe adrenaline trip is intensified
by making use ofurine or feces, are cases of 'contrasublimation'
- when a Superego function is redirected into the sphere ofpositive perversion -
the classical Freudian sublimation stoodon its head -or, as he would say, 'perversion'. And are BF activities those
in which the passive participant loses control of their body functions casesof
'debasement' in the Freudiansense? I think they are 'beyond debasement',
within the topography of the inner worlds- debasement is a mental process
which uses psychic materialsfrom the layer of 'disgust', 'inferiority', 'spite',
'desire to destroy', etc., while the more intense part of
the BF specter players active/reactivate preverbal, prelinguistical modes of existence.
The 'child' and the 'baby' are present in all adults below the surface of
their characters. They are present in trauma,phobia, neurosis, psychosis, withunresolved
events and feelings from the past influencing the adult. Today, there is the grave
issue of 'paedophile related crime' in our societies, and myopinionis that the child in the fantasy,
laptop or lapof the pedophile is, on the level of significance, a representation of the abuser himself. The layer
of complete dependence which brings arousal basedon domination/sadism impulses,
presented by Jane Root inthe context of legitimate symbols circulatingin the infosphere43:
"Perhaps the most extreme celebration offemale passivitycan be seen as in the cultural importance of
images ofchildwomen, and childishness in adult females.
...These are women who are sexual without beingaware of it and therefore presumablydepend on men to show them the
way." is not the final layer of significance - below it is the layer ofthe
projectionof one self into the same role.The mechanism ofprojection isinplace just as with all other pornographic
and sexual practices described until now. The mature successful man, who experiences
intense impulses todebase, trick, overcome and 'fuck' a child, or asex object close enoughto
a child ina manner of behaviororbody proportions, is attempting to gain relief from hisowntrauma, by
projecting it in reenactment onto the recipient whichis offered, legally or
illegally, bythe patriarchal structures which they both inhabit. Within this context, the
'user'of the child, or porn, or 'prostitute', or girl, to achieve gratification and relief from internal tension, this 'user'
isthe important Subject, the other, including the porn actress is but anObject, tobeutilized
for a specific purpose. But in the end, even this treatment of the other as anObject whose
desires and needs are irrelevant, is also aprojection of the male's forbidden fantasies, for in
consensual BDSM and BF rituals, bothmales and females can achieve what they believe tobe
'satisfaction', from being treated as objects.