Thread by @AmurakaHidden

Carl Jung and the Prophecy of TRUMP🧵

Carl Jung wrote, "When an inner situation is not made conscious, it happens outside, as fate.”

Donald Trump is the FATE of America’s unconscious, both a symbol AND sympton. He is a nation’s unacknowledged shadow turned FLESH.

Jung may have never explicitly named Trump in his writings BUT he foresaw the emergence of figures exactly like him, archetypal personalities who emerge when a civilization refuses to face its inner contradictions.

His psychology becomes PROPHETIC when applied to Trump’s rise.

Jung wrote, "Everyone carries a shadow, and the less it is embodied in the individual's conscious life, the blacker & denser it is"

Trump is the physical manifestation of America's shadow, a blood and flesh avatar acting out unresolved complexes of wealth, race, creed & DECLINE.

Jung writes, "The unconscious is not just evil by nature, it is also the source of the highest good: not only dark but also light, not only bestial, semihuman, and demonic but superhuman, spiritual, and, in the classical sense of the word, 'divine'."

Thus, Tump is a PARADOX.

He is neither savior or villain, embodying both the destructive impulses of America’s Shadow AND the potential for transformation it carries.

Like the Roman Father of gods Janus, Trump has two faces: Red Tie Trump and Blue Tie Trump.

Red Tie Trump is the authoritarian patriarch, promising law, order, and strength. Blue Tie Trump is the the trickster, the agent of chaos and disruption. These two faces are not separate identities but the embodiment of America’s psychic split. Order AND Chaos entwined.

The Romans worshiped Janus as the god of beginnings and thresholds, the two-faced guardian of transitions. But in his darker form, Janus Bifrons, he was not merely a civilizing deity, but a daemonic figure, double-tongued, deceptive, ambivalent of crossing the threshold.

Trump embodies this Janus Bifrons archetype. He is not only the gatekeeper of America’s decline but its trickster-daemon, speaking with two faces at once. His double-speak is not accidental, it is archetypical of Bifrons: one face promising salvation, the other destruction.

Trump is not only the embodiment of America's Shadow but, also, has his own Inner Shadow. Janus & Bifrons.

Jung says, "It is a frightening thought that man also has a shadow side to him, consisting not just of little weaknesses and foibles, but of a positively demonic dynamism."

Like Janus Bifrons, Trump presides over a moment of civilizational transition. But he is not strictly neutral, he is the demonic threshold, who destabilizes rather than guides, a mirror of what America has become.

It was Hesse who said, "If you hate person, you hate a something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us."

Trump is meant to be polarizing. Jung wrote that the Trickster is both “subhuman and superhuman", both yin and yang.

He is chaotic yet revelatory. In this sense, the Trickster is daemonic: not evil in a moral sense, but disruptive, paradoxical and enigmatic. Trump’s ability to say one thing THEN its opposite, to embody order and chaos simultaneously, in one breath reveals his daemonic core.

Jung wrote: “One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.”

Trump is the darkness MADE conscious, made manifest. This is the Trickster’s role: to confound, destabilize, and bring unconscious contents to light.

Trump’s contradictions are America’s contradictions, a mirror of an Empire in a Fallen State.

As Jung said, "If you don't integrate the Shadow, the Shadow will disintegrate you." 

Jung emphasized that what is repressed in the psyche inevitably reappears in projection.

Trump is the literal projection of America’s unresolved complexes.

The fantasy of liberty vs. the reality of surveillance.
The creed of equality vs. the persistence of racial trauma.
The dream of prosperity vs. the fact of inequality.
Exceptionalism vs. imperial decline.

Trump does not resolve these contradictions; he enacts them. The ONLY way to integrate the shadow is to FACE it.

In Answer to Job, Jung says the God of the Old Testament was forced into self-reflection when confronted with the innocent suffering of Job.

For Jung, the ordeal of Job revealed to God His own shadow, His capacity for cruelty and injustice. He says the incarnation of Christ was God’s attempt to reconcile this shadow within Himself.

Trump is America’s “JOB-moment”.

He is the ordeal through which the nation is confronted with its own shadow. Just as Job forced God to see what He had done, Trump forces America to see what it has become.

America is now compelled to reflect upon its hypocrisies. WE must integrate this nation's daemonic shadow.

BUT, most importantly, God’s confrontation with Job led to incarnation of CHRIST, America’s confrontation with Trump may lead either to TRANSFORM or COLLAPSE.

Trump is definitely not America’s Christ but its Job: the trial that compels the collective to recognize its shadow.

Trump is not its destroyer or savior, but its FATE, the living symbol of its unconscious. Only by facing that shadow consciously can the nation find its Awnser to Job AND pass through Janus's Gate into transformation rather than decline.

As Jung said, "To confront a person with his shadow is to show him his own light." 

Thus, only by facing Trump as the living embodiment of America’s shadow can the nation confront its darkness, and perhaps, through that confrontation, glimpse its own light.

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