I mean happy Thursda
It's past 12 so Happy Friday!!
Yuta, thank you for asking about the book on synchronicity! I found a great passage from the book that deals with our current trending topics (DESTINY and ORIGIN of NAMES) so I want to share it with you guys immediately!! It's mind-boggling.
PASSAGE (footnote 12 on p.11)
We find ourselves in something of a quandary when it comes to making up our minds about the phenomenon which Stekel calls the "compulsion of the name". What he means by this is the sometimes quite grotesque coincidence between a man's name and his peculiarities or profession. For instance Herr Gross (Mr. Grand) suffers from delusions of grandeur, Herr Kleiner (Mr. Small) has an inferiority complex. Herr Ferist (Mr. Stout) is the Food Minister, Herr Rosstaeuscher (Mr. Horsetrader) is a lawyer, Herr Kalberer (Mr. Calver) is an obstetrician, Herr Freud (joy) champions the pleasure-principle, Herr Adler (eagle) the will-to-power, Herr Jung (young) the idea of rebirth, and so on. Are these the whimsicalities of chance, or the suggestive effects of the name, as Steckel seems to suggest, or are they "meaningful coincidences"? ("Die Verpflichtung des Namens", 110ff.) (p.11)
What are your opinions?
Good Night :)
Works consulted
Jung, C. G. (1960). Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle (Extracted from The Structures and Dynamics of the Psyche, Vol. 8 of the Collected Works of C. G. Jung.)
Bollingen Foundation, New York, N.Y.
Princeton University Press.
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