Coincidences have always aroused curiosity and fascinated the human being, sometimes everything seems to be synchronized inexplicably, so that two situations that seem to have nothing to do with each other coincide, so many people have always associated these victims with forces from Him beyond.
Luck has also been the source of many reflections and big questions. He was an esoterically studied philosopher. It is a force present from the beginning of life Why were we born?Why in this family, in this country, in these circumstances and not in others, is there anything that explains or is luck simply chaotic and indecipherable?
? What seems to be luck or bad luck comes from deep sources?. – Friedrich Schiller-
Both luck and coincidences have emerged several theories, ranging from those based on statistics, to those who see these phenomena as a supernatural intervention. In the context of psychology, a respectable name stands out, that of Karl Jung, this psychoanalyst, Freud’s first disciple and founder of his own school, devoted much of his work to these phenomena. It was he who faked the interesting concept of “synchronicity. “
One of the first to question these factors was Hippocrates, the father of medicine. According to this Greek sage, all components of the universe were bound by “hidden affinities”. In other words, for him there were laws that explained everything, but that were not yet known.
Arthur Schopenhauer, a German philosopher of great relevance, thought something similar: “An individual’s fate invariably adapts to the fate of another, and each is the protagonist of his own drama, while presenting himself in a drama that is alien to him. Is it anything beyond our comprehension?
With Sigmund Freud begins to take shape the concept of “collective unconscious”, common to all human beings, it was Carl Jung who gave him his definitive form, are memories, fantasies, desires of which we are not aware and who are present in each of us, which results in an equally unconscious communication between people, which would explain , to a large extent, what we call coincidences.
Subsequently, the same psychoanalyst developed the concept of “synchronicity”. This is defined as “the concurrency of two events linked by meaning, but causally”. That is, the confluence of two situations, without one being the cause of the other, but with complementary content. Jung’s postulates, over time, have even derived from various forms of magical thought.
Although Jung’s theory is appealing, it is not the only one that explains coincidences and luck, for Freud, father of psychoanalysis and teacher of jung, goes the other way, in its purpose the coincidence does not exist in itself, it is the human being who does it, because of his stubborn tendency to make sense of everything that happens. Also because neurosis induces repeating traumatic situations.
For classical psychoanalysis, no element of reality makes sense in itself. It is the human being who grants it, according to his desires and his traumas. In this sense, we usually see coincidences where they don’t exist. I was walking down this street, I ran into this person, who ended up being the love of my life. “However, this happened exactly 30 times with people who were not their loves. Actually, me? This can also be a fantasy. Beautiful, but it’s still a fantasy.
On the other hand, neurobiology has found that when there is a high dose of dopamine in the brain increases the tendency to create patterns at all, models like to see matches where they do not exist, make connections, sometimes quite strange, between facts that are not related to each other.
Perhaps these situations that happen to us by what we call coincidence correspond, in fact, to an unconscious scenario, without realizing it we try to be in certain situations or live certain experiences, perhaps the human being is not as at the mercy of luck and bad luck as many assume. Your unconscious desires and fantasies are what we call destiny. And giving him a magic painting, one way or another, gives us some satisfaction.