The misoneism (of the Greek miso- : “which hates” and néo : “new”) is the attitude which consists in rejecting any innovation.

It is thus frequent that a Génération considers that the attitude of the former generation is misoneist. It is also the reproach made by certain followers of the Astrologie and other beliefs towards the scientific .

One also speaks about néophobie .

A double example of misoneism illustrated by C.G. Jung

In the man and his symbols , Carl Gustav Jung explains us resistance has his theory and illustrates it of another example, that of resistance to the concept of evolution.

Resistance to the theory jungienne

From the point of view jungienne to question the inexistence of a concept (or of another) and to refuse to even discuss with oneself name " to be in resistances, ". " To be in resistances " it is initially to be resistant to oneself even, with its own nature even.

This resistance can be intellectualized, in the form of criticisms intellectual tackling the theory. For example, psychology jungienne does not return to reality or is a Pseudo-science or it is machist or feminist, of right-hand side or left etc

In any case, from the point of view jungienne, this resistance returns to an interior conflict which could not be assumed and exceeded by construction but which gives more than has to see from this point of view that a tangle for positions or intellectual postures returning to a conflict.

A zone, where there is " the other encrypté in nous" , which is not bearable for us. Even if reality can give place to free thought, free setting in direction of reality, or even of criticism, this thought is, within the framework of the private clinic, doubted initially. Because too near to the energies of oneself (heard here like energies of self unhappy).

Finally when the other, its matter, its acts are unbearable for us, it is that we are it with ourselves.

Resistance to the concept of evolution

In its work the man and his symbols , C.G. Jung explains us an example of resistance traditional vis-a-vis the innovation (p. 30 to 33) and in particular to its theory and more still than the Man vis-a-vis itself: minoseism.

The same work (p. 33) gives us to see two representations of this resistance. One on the concepts of the evolution illustrated by a caricature of monkey with a panel " my I has man and has brothers" who recalls resistances of the public opinion vis-a-vis the theories darwiniennes, and another of 1861 resulting from the work Punch of the humorist James Thurber (according to the author, J. Thurber, and taken again by C.G. Jung for the comment of this image), of which the aunt was afraid that electricity did not spread - while leaving wiring like water - in all the house.

The conclusion of C.G. Jung

This same resistance exists vis-a-vis the theory of C.G. Jung because the Man is resisted itself.

Indeed, according to C.G Jung (even work p.31), " It is easy to include/understand why the dreamers tend to be unaware of or to even reject the message which is thus communicated to them. The conscience resists naturally very unconscious and unknown. I already announced the existence of what the anthropologists call " the minoséisme" , i.e. a fear major, superstitious, innovation. The primitive ones have same the reactions as the wild animal in front of unpleasant events. But the man " civilisé" reacts in front of novel ideas (...) psychology is science of more young people and because she endeavors to elucidate what occurs in the unconscious one, she encounters an extreme form of Misonéisme ".

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