A break today from the mental health system battles.
I have always when teaching referred to The psyche, not your or my psyche but never really thought about why. I imagine it is because that is the way I heard it said by others. So I was delighted yesterday when I read the following :
I should also say that the psyche is sometimes used as a synonym for mind, but is generally a very different concept... for Jung generally speaking, mind is a largely rational and Cartesian container in the head, but the psyche "is no more inside us than the sea is inside the fish," (Commentary on the Secret of the Golden Flower), that the psyche surrounds us as a lifeworld, partly personal and largely anonymous and collective. That is why Jung once pointed out ... that he did not refer to your psyche or my psyche, but THE psyche.-- (Roger Brooke)
Delicious phrase --"psyche surrounds us as a lifeworld"