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yeah that's true, people parrot jung to no end in hopes of sounding educated. what i meant was that you can't run away from the tainted side of your personality and act like your spirit has been purified just because you dammed the streams of perverted thoughts.
>how does one do this? staring in the mirror and admitting my darkest fetishes to myself every morning?
not necessarily lmao, for me it just took a simple recognition: no matter how much progress i make with celibacy or any endeavor really, be it battling another addiction or more casual stuff like becoming more outgoing and talkative for instance, i can always revert back to square one needing no justification at all. the choice to appease the death drive will always be there and there's nothing to stop me from doing it yet i don't do it. to circle this back to sr, if you've been clean for months or even years, it doesn't mean a whole lot if the ostensibly overcome urge to fuck hookers or jerk off 5x every day (like i used to sadly) is submerged in your mind and you behave like you're born again, unshackled from your past vices. if you do that, your dick will lead the way even more so except you will be completely unaware of it until it fucks your life up