{"id":115361,"date":"2025-12-05T13:18:52","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T13:18:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jungian.directory\/fcxfougk\/?post_type=mec-events&#038;p=115361"},"modified":"2025-12-05T13:18:52","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T13:18:52","slug":"wholeness-and-the-myth-of-perfection","status":"publish","type":"mec-events","link":"https:\/\/jungian.directory\/fcxfougk\/jungian-events\/wholeness-and-the-myth-of-perfection\/","title":{"rendered":"Wholeness and the Myth of Perfection"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"bgLayers_comp-m9vxomu65\" class=\"MW5IWV\" data-hook=\"bgLayers\" data-motion-part=\"BG_LAYER comp-m9vxomu65\">\n<div id=\"bgMedia_comp-m9vxomu65\" class=\"VgO9Yg\" data-motion-part=\"BG_MEDIA comp-m9vxomu65\"><span class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\">Perfectionism runs rampant through our society,<\/span> and many suffer its confounding damage to life and self. We are caught in its inhumane prison, both in its persistent demand that we perform perfectly and its insistence that we are not good enough if we don\u2019t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-mesh-id=\"comp-m9vxomu65inlineContent\" data-testid=\"inline-content\">\n<div data-mesh-id=\"comp-m9vxomu65inlineContent-gridContainer\" data-testid=\"mesh-container-content\">\n<div id=\"comp-m9vxomu7\" class=\"Z_l5lU ku3DBC zQ9jDz qvSjx3 Vq6kJx comp-m9vxomu7 wixui-rich-text\" data-testid=\"richTextElement\">\n<p class=\"font_8 wixui-rich-text__text\"><span class=\"color_40 wixui-rich-text__text\">This is dangerous business for the psyche, which longs for any modicum of a sense of self. In fact, from a Transpersonal perspective, perfectionism is a state of nonbeing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"font_8 wixui-rich-text__text\"><span class=\"color_40 wixui-rich-text__text\">Wholeness is not a state of perfection. Jung taught that when we strive for perfection, we must experience and integrate perfection&#8217;s unconscious opposite\u2014imperfection\u2014in order to reach wholeness. We tend to think of attaining a state of wholeness as perfection, because we believe that wholeness is an ultimate state of arrival.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"font_8 wixui-rich-text__text\"><span class=\"color_40 wixui-rich-text__text\">Society and religion teach that this unconscious opposition is evidence of our lack, evidence that we are not good people. 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