The Fall

Going through the topic of innocent, I realized that it is about stages of development. The innocent stage is where every one of us has to go through it. We are told stories of heroes to help us grow with faith and build character within us. As we grow older we, find the stories and myths are not as they appear to be and we start analyzing what we heard as children and what the real world is teaching us. Overcoming our unconscious mind through conscious mind is the toughest process of growing up. The fortunate fall is one of the necessary tools of human beings for self-development. Psychoanalysts believe that our personality and behavior is a product of our childhood memory with the help of our unconscious mind. What had happened in our childhood affects us positively or negatively in life. According to psychologists and therapists, negative development can be overcome by bringing internal, deep, and sometimes uncomfortable realities of childhood into the surface. Like the “Fall” in Pearson’s book, people have to face their worst fear in order to get better. I believe that our innocent archetype is not to be removed and replaced by another archetype in our development, but something lives and functions with us at different stages of awareness level. Our innocence is the soul of our humanity that needs to be developed and nurtured by extending the capability of the unconscious mind capacity with our conscious mind.

The Unfortunate Fall of Innocent

During lunch, several of my friends were debating with unusual tone. There is silence in between opinions with more disagreement than agreement. My friends usually enjoy discussing sports and movies. Nevertheless, today the topic was different. It was about why people carry guns, in some cases automatic rifles. One of the person said it is part of an intimidation tactic by those who prefer violence to solve problems.
The answer might be correct or wrong. However, I assumed this situation has to belong to one or more archetypes. Of course innocent is one of them among other archetypes. Those who are lucky will have a fortunate fall and rise up with knowledge and skill into wholeness. Those who are not lucky will face the unfortunate fall where they continue to mistrust individuals, groups or society as a whole. Thus, these people chose the path of intimidation by carrying deadly weapon in a public meeting. It is true that the shadow side of innocent or orphan archetype is in progress in this case.

Innocent Stage of Development

I was watching a movie called the Ballad of Jack and Rose made in 2005.
The story made me rethink what it meant to Rose when her sick and single father brought a girlfriend to their house. The conflict between Rose and her father’s girlfriend became bad as time goes on and Rose suddenly moved out. Her seriously sick father knew he had very little time to live. According to her father, he wanted rose to be left with some one he knew. This was the main reason he brought his girl friend and her children to move in with into his house. When Rose moved out, the plan that he wanted his daughter to be with someone after his death failed. . The father begged Rose to return home with him. The condition for her returning was that she does not want to see her (her dad’s girl friend) again. In this movie, we can see that there is a strong sexual bond between father and daughter initiated by the daughter.
The daughter disregarded every norm of father and daughter relationship and pursuit the desire to be with her dad as a friend besides his unwillingness to do so. Psychologist knew that children have hidden or open sexual desire to the opposite sex parent. In Rose’s case, she should have broken out of this innocent stage of development before she became a teenager.