The Christ Principle and Unconscious Psychology

and the ferment, the stone and the fire, the transcendent element and the drive for self-overcoming, the transmutatory and evolutionary impulse of the Ego. In the absence of Christ, one could not speak of a spiritual evolution, but only of a natural adaptation of the Ego to the unfathomable sea of the psyche. This presence remains in most cases relegated outside the field of consciousness. The individual suffers, struggles, improves or torments himself, without knowing the origin of the motor impulse. Only with mystical ascesis techniques or through divine deliberation can this presence be awakened and brought to the consciousness of the Ego. Even though it is outside the field of consciousness, the motor impulse of the Christ principle cannot be neglected by psychodynamics, as it constitutes a strong attractor and propulsive center for the Ego. The structure of the unconscious The Ego is in continuous and constant contact with the unconscious and remains in a certain way its center. In fact, the personal unconscious sphere, like the conscious sphere, is organized starting from the action of the Ego. In it are found sensations, memories, conceptions and emotions, never surfaced to the threshold of consciousness or artificially discarded or rejected. But this personal unconscious, which we can define as subconscious, is only a superficial layer which possesses, beneath it, a deeper layer that has nothing to do with our personal experience, which would therefore be an autonomous psychic activity, opposed to the conscious psyche and even to the upper layers of the unconscious. The psyche is a datum present in some form at all levels and in all forms of energy aggregation. Just as the organic matter of which our physical body is made is not homologous to that of a tree or a mineral, but is always traceable to elementary forms of aggregation; so the individual psyche is not homologous to the supraindividual or collective one and not even to the animal or vegetable one, but ultimately is in contact with it and traceable to the same elementary compounds. The individual psyche does not therefore appear from nothing, but arises from the universal psyche through a process of progressive aggregations and elaborations, part of which are originated by the Ego. The triple constitution of the Ego in spirit, soul and eros, is thus reflected in the triple constitution of the personality in mental, emotional and vital, which, in turn, is reflected in the triple constitution of the personal unconscious in lower, middle and atavistic. The subconscious By subconscious here we mean that psychic sphere outside the field of consciousness that is personal but that is potentially capable of coming into contact with the entire panpsychic Universe and therefore transcendent to the limited consciousness of current humanity. It is the result of the constructive process of the Ego in its interaction with external forces and realities with which it has come into contact. Experiences lived or sensed, transmitted education and conventions, conscious and unconscious influences, ideals and belonging groups, wanted, forgotten or repressed memorizations, atavistic and family predispositions, all these psychic, biological and spiritual impulses contribute to the formation of one's subconscious. The process of personality formation, in its biological, emotional and mental fullness, requires decades and, in this process, the subconscious also changes and evolves dependently on the voluntary and involuntary action of the Ego as well as of the forces that act directly or indirectly on it. Thus, following the trichotomous division of the Ego, that is superior, soul and inferior, we can use a trichotomous division of the personal unconscious or subconscious: lower, middle and atavistic. The subconscious has the Ego as its center and is not an independent personality even if it is capable of thinking, communicating, reasoning, investigating, carrying out more or less complex and coherent activities depending on the evolutionary degree of the Ego and its coagulating and deliberative action. Sometimes in the subconscious, complexes and psychodynamisms coagulate and fix themselves so stable and organic as to appear as independent personalities capable of guiding the actions, thoughts and emotions of the individual at least for a certain period of time. Although by subconscious we mean the personal unconscious sphere, it would be wrong to consider its boundaries rigidly delimited. The roots of the subconscious are immersed in the collective unconscious and, beyond this, in the entire panpsychic Universe. The reciprocal action between the two fields of the unconscious is immense, dynamic and only partially explored. Lower unconscious The lower unconscious comprises all those unconscious dynamisms that arise from the interaction of the Ego with the physical, vital body and with the most basic and elementary instincts that extend their roots into the collective unconscious branched into the myriads of present and past human experiences. The lower unconscious includes all psychic activities that preside over organic life, the intelligent coordination of physiological functions, primitive tendencies and impulses, dreams and imaginative activities of a lower type, remains of the remote collective biological past. In the lower unconscious are found all the perceptions and unconscious psychodynamisms inherent in the physical body, one's state of health, the same proprioception or unconscious awareness of the body. But beyond this are found all those complexes, formed and perfected over the years, which remain below the threshold of consciousness because they are considered non-influential and non-significant for the evolution of the Ego. Learning to drive a car or to speak by moving vocal cords, tongue and oral cavity in a coordinated way to correctly pronounce a word, are activities that required time, attention and the cooperation of consciousness to be learned, but...