The Jung-Freaks
Jung-freaks have opinions
Like everyone else
Bu thanks to the concept
‘projections’
Jung-freaks eschew reasons
Especially if your tone is
Too aggressive
Or incisive
Wondering what is
behind their opinions
They protect their ego
Through the brilliant
Ability to detect
When one is ‘projecting’
Since their viewpoints
Do not require explanations
And they’re above reproach
Just because they are
Who they are
And because they believe what they believe
Or since they
Must avoid disagreement
Out of fear
Or depending on their current
Emotional state
their only recourse
Is to ‘diagnose’ those who disagree
With the magic phrase
‘You’re projecting’
‘You’re projecting’
Like a doctor diagnosing
Rectal cancer
Or the flu
But they are more like
Doctors who
Diagnose a person
With
Alcoholism
When anyone with
A brain knows
That alcoholism is not a disease
It is merely a bad habit
That has gone so far
That the drunk
Thinks he can’t control himself
Anymore
And so he can’t
That’s what he’s told himself for years
you are what you think
And he doesn’t think
He just does
What his subconscious program
Dictates
The program he chose
For himself of course
And reinforced over and over
Until the program
Took over
Like a virus
Or spyware
It runs there in the background
Sapping your performance
That’s why people
Invented God
God is just a new program
That eventually works
In the background
The more you reinforce the habit
Of using God as a means to an end
It’s much like disassociating
From a poorly written program
Though sometimes admirable
Sign of your own
Personal creativity
And boldness
And replacing it with
A user-friendly
Corporate
Program with little room
For invention
Or innovation.
You pretend that
someone else can
until you eventually
change your habit
What they really mean
Is that they feel
Their pet theories
Are threatened
By another’s doubts
They mean
You caught them
Believing things
That they never
Questioned before
You came along
Or they mean
They can’t bear to
Reveal their ignorance
On a subject
That they suppose themselves
An authority on
Or they mean
They’re scared of
domination
By your
Extensive knowledge
And the confidence it brings
They resent the
Insolent presumption
Of one who knows
Thanks to hard work
And study
Yet regardless of the soundness of
Your logic
Or knowledge
And their impotence
They believe their
Unfounded beliefs
Deserve respect
Just because they hold
Those beliefs
With little understanding
Of why they believe
So they say
You’re projecting
You’re projecting
And they say it
With a cool smile
their fears and doubts
Allayed
For now their opponent
Is not misinformed
Or illogical
Or ignorant
Now they
Have a psychological ‘condition’
And who better to
Reveal this condition
Than the Jung-freak?
Its how Jung-freaks
Look down on the people
They disagree with
Instead of backing up their views
With reasons
And facts
While the rest of us
Know
you don’t need
to prove you are a better
person than someone else
out of some hidden sense
of personal inferiority
but rather you need
to discover what the truth
is about any given question
because you know
you have the ability to do it
and you have done it before
Poor ol Jung
His ghost weeps over the
Casual misuse of his
Concept of projection
By so-called
Faux Seekers of self-realization
Who thumb through his books
Like a good beach read
Grasping onto
Any psychological theory
That rids them of the need
To do their homework
For projection is not a
Tool one uses as a wild card
in a debate
Or an argument
It is something that happens
Between the analyst and the patient
Which helps both of them
To bring
Subconscious thoughts
And feelings
To the surface
In an atmosphere
of trust
openness
and wisdom
A true analyst uncovers
The projections
That really matter
Over long periods
Of analysis
They take their time
Like a master on
A sculpture
They do not use projection
To conceal their own
Failings
Ignorance
And self-doubt
When confronted with
Someone who questions or
Doubts one of their sacred cows
Not at all.
Even worse,
Projection is based on that
Soft science called
Psychology
Yet it’s adheres invoke
Projection
Like it is the law
Electromagnetism
Or the germ theory
While in reality
In the hands of
An armchair psychologist
Who reads Jung casually
Without much rigor
Or focus
It might as well be
A ten year old
Yelling no
No no no no
Or I want what I want
Or a Father who says
It’s true because I say it’s true
Or it’s true because so and so
Said it’s true
but instead they say it like this
I think you’re projecting
You’re just projecting
If they are insecure enough
To take everything personally
And to be at a loss
For an explanation
They try to act as if
They are beyond explanations
Beyond answering questions
Beyond stating their case
As if they’ve reached some pinnacle
Which no one can grasp
Or understand
Some revolutionary hunch
Beyond trifling little
Debates and arguments
And the more they try to
Convince you
And themselves
The more obvious the lie
Becomes
And if they act like
Jesus on his way to the cross
The lamb to the slaughter
Never defending themselves
You know they want the truth too
But they’re not willing to
Push themselves to get it
Instead they meekly go along
With whatever you say
Patronizing and condescending
With an air of
Invincibility
And at some point during
The Pop Jung-Freak’s
Faux elevation
Into the netherspere
Of transcendent wisdom
They wait for you to
Become irritated
And bewildered
At their spectacle
Of fraud
Deceit
Delusion
And self-confirmed
Attainment
Of nothing less
Than the emperor’s new clothes
Or the alchemical transformation
Of base metal into gold
While evading the real issue
And then state in their
Ridiculous and maddening way
Don’t you think you’re projecting?
Don’t you think you’re projecting?
You’re projecting
Instead of stopping to
Reconsider their unfounded
Beliefs
Or stopping to consider
Maybe their opponent has a point
And they should go back to the drawing board
But no
All they can say is
You’re projecting
You’re projecting
And with that
They think they have completely
Gotten to the bottom
Of the real reason
Behind their opponent’s
questions
contradictions
and doubts
and justified annoyance
at unfounded beliefs
