INFLATION: Mysticism Magick Dictionary on INFLATION

INFLATION

Psychic inflation is much worse than economic inflation. It refers to believing that an idealized image is actually one's real self. Sometimes this can be an archetypal image. Jung describes it as a morbid condition in which the ego becomes exaggerated and, together with the unconscious, invades the self. A real prophet, says Jung, does not identify with god, but says, "a spirit has spoken to me." By keeping the spirit outside we can try to measure up to it. But in inflation, the ego projects its own hatreds, flaws, wekanesses, evils and ugliness onto others (while simultaneously denying their presence in itself) and it grows increasingly unconcerned with the world's reaction. Whereas in the Middle Ages people developed religious inflation (thought they were God), in modern society the affliction is more likely to be political and rationalistic and, in the name of reason, we like to deny the reality of the unconscious altogether. Psychically inflated ego is also pernicious because it generates further ego inflation in others.

An inflated person is a neurotic with whom nobody can deal because no one ever knows which is the real person. Inflation can only be overcome by a balance of patience and humility, and self-analysis of the ego at all times.

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