Eudaimonia means having good fortune, wealth or happiness, it is an internal flourish that, according to Carl Jung, we must all promote by connecting first with our own dimon, is an inner genius, a model that guides our unconscious passions and motivations. defines our essences and that we must listen to more often.
If something is present everywhere (libraries, social networks, messages printed on our clothes) is the need to be happy, there is no television commercial that does not suggest that, when we take this soda or own this mobile phone, we will feel new and wonderful sensations. There is a vision of happiness today that takes on an almost imperative tone.
- We live in a postmodernity where the obligation to be happy often leads us to our own misfortune.
- Let us remember.
- For example.
- What the mathematician and philosopher Nassim Nicholas Taleb tells us in his book “The Logic of the Black Swan”: “People still believe that the whole world is full of white swans.
- That it is enough to strive to achieve what if desired.
- That the promises you made to us as children are a day of reality.
However, according to Taleb, our world is extremely complex. So when we see a black swan, we don’t know how to react, we’re vulnerable because we don’t know how to deal with the unexpected and the uncertainty, so happiness can never be found if we look out. It must strengthen our character, our daimon, as Carl Jung himself would say.
One of the heirs to Carl Jung’s legacy was James Hillman, a Jungian analyst who was one of the representatives who deepened the concept of archetypes and, more specifically, the ideal of daimon. His book The Souls Code reminds us of the importance of entering Touch with this genius or “Demon” to build a full life, true happiness. To better understand this interesting theory, let’s take a closer look at what Professor Hillman reveals in his book.
Dr. James Hillman suggests that few things are as decisive as learning to listen to this spirit, this magical and colorful entity that inhabits all our motivations. Nothing can inspire us more than the phrase inscribed in front of the temple of Apollo in Delphi: “Know yourself. “
Eudaimonia certainly requires high doses of courage, if we do not dare to hear this inner voice, this diane worried and eager to do things, will subject us to different punishments, as Carl Jung reminds us, if we cannot hear the needs of the daimon, our soul will get sick, because going against our desires and our motivations brings unhappiness.
We already know that nothing can be as decisive as promoting self-knowing, coming into contact with our desires, our essences, our identities and our personal values is certainly a way to embrace our daemon and recognize it, but it is not. Just contact him and say, “I know you’re here. “We must give him freedom, freedom of creation, freedom of speech.
Cultivating true eudaimony requires change, involves setting aside patterns imposed from the outside and being able to create our own reality, so we must be fully aware of the complexity of our environment, where the unexpected, uncertainty and difficulties will be constant. , but to achieve udaimonia, we also have to face scenarios where it is not easy to express yourself, realize it.
In this regard, it is good to remember what Emmanuel Kant has already explained to us: to be happy you have to learn to be intelligent, that is, you have to know how to choose the right means to achieve the greatest personal well-being. Of course, such a task, such an objective, is not easy at all.
Therefore, we still have Junguiana therapy at hand, this therapeutic approach aims precisely at this end, to put eudaimonia at hand, helping us to discern our uniqueness and our potentials to achieve the happiness we desire, which suits us.