The difficult art of loving. Limitation of knowledge between man and woman. An interpretation of Jungian Symbolic Psychology

Abstract

Based on the formation of identity through the elaboration of symbols and structuring functions coordinated by archetypes in countless existential experiences, Jungian symbolic psychology asserts in this article that love requires knowledge between the personalities of lovers, and that the lack of knowledge between man and woman, which is still very pronounced, limits this experience. The author defends the thesis that knowledge between man and women is slowly developing in the history of humanity, but is still beginning. He states that even this small amount of knowledge accumulated is deformed by mutual projections. They have their origin in our physical constitution, in the differences of our process of development and in the confusion between the identity of man and of woman and the roles they have lived in history. Therefore, the author describes summarily these deformations and concludes that, in order to know and to love each other, man and woman need, first of all, to elaborate these millenary deformations, which have driven them apart through wounds and illusions.