History Of Tarot - The Use Of Tarot In Literature And Psychology

Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961), disciple of Freud, in his practice as a psychoanalyst, was often his patients' mental state was a symbolic response to the outside world. "Sometimes it is difficult to avoid the impression that there is a kind of advance information on future series of events," says Jung in his writings. He devised the principle of synchronicity explains meaningful coincidences. Synchronicity is defined by observing a series of events which, although seemingly unrelated, occur together in a meaningful way. Jung, changed the history of tarot cards, when he began to explore means of divination, tarot cards as old as the Chinese I Ching and astrology.

These traditional instruments that take a picture of the moment allows us to take the heart of the intuitive situation in which we live. He believed that the choice of a tarot card was motivated by the need to express an unconscious desire to manifest in the outside world at that time. The seemingly arbitrary choice of a card in a given time is the inevitable expression of space-time continuum. Jung found that tarot cards pictures of the universal archetypes. The Jungian archetypes are common to all humanity, and those built his own individual psychological characteristics, based on his unique life experiences. Jung spent a beautiful picture to explain the universal archetypes. The conscious mind is the visible part of an island, the unconscious of the individual is the submerged part of the island and the collective unconscious, which is common to all peoples, the sea is all around.

In all the tables given distribution of tarot cards that represent the basic archetypes combine to form a valid reason, which we can project our situation. Interpreting tarot with unconscious knowledge to the surface and reflects the underlying fears and desires, which are ignored by the rational mind. In our culture, does not include verbal knowledge of the immediate communication of an image, but with tarot cards, we let our rational mind to sit down and let our non-verbal, instinctive knowledge is at the head to obtain an intuitive understanding of reality. There is no doubt that we project our unconscious feelings and passions of the objects around us and there's a message in each symbol and meaning behind every image of tarot.

At the same time, the cards will open the eyes of the patterns of human behavior, and provide us with answers and solutions, we already know but unconsciously do not hesitate to make a conscious level. Tarot cards act as a catalyst for pictures and our minds are able to offer alternative ways to understand our reality. The process is similar to the Rorschach test, in which the theme is presented in a series of vague images musteläikäksi and asked what he sees the pictures. The answers are then trained to use a psychologist to examine the personality characteristics and emotional functioning of the subject. Tarot images as the Rorschach test, in which we can project the inner workings of our minds. This Tarot spread to clarify the decision-making process, analyze problems, to cover the world better, and, finally, stimulate intuition and to gain a better understanding of themselves.