You Want Both. Why Does Choosing Feel Like a Fight?

Two plans can compete for the same evening without requiring two separate people inside your head. An invented farewell-versus-painting decision names two concerns and finds where their plans collide. Jung's historical complex framework and Emmons and King's later goal-conflict measures are kept separate. 📖 Book: Collected Papers on Analytical Psychology by Carl Gustav Jung; authorised English translation edited by Constance E. Long (1920), Chapter II, The Association Method, Lecture I; correspondence with Dr. Loy, letter VI dated 11 February 1913. Free to read: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/48225 Chapters 0:00 Two Plans One Evening 0:48 Jung's Historical Question 2:25 Find The Collision 4:02 What Later Research Measures 4:56 Keep Both Concerns Sources Carl Gustav Jung. Collected Papers on Analytical Psychology, authorised translation edited by Constance E. Long, second edition reprinted 1920. Chapter II, The Association Method, Lecture I; correspondence with Dr. Loy, letter VI (11 February 1913). Project Gutenberg eBook 48225. https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/48225 Emmons, R. A., and King, L. A. (1988). Conflict among personal strivings: Immediate and long-term implications for psychological and physical well-being. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 54(6), 1040-1048. https://doi.org/10.1037/0022-3514.54.... The farewell, painting, coat, calendar, friend and dialogue are original fiction. Jung's clinical interpretations are historical and are not inferred from this ordinary decision. Modern goal-conflict associations do not establish his theory or causal health effects. The planning suggestion is not a tested treatment. 💬 Where do your two current plans actually collide? Headlore is psychology, told by stick figures. Subscribe for more:    / @headlore   For education, not medical advice. #psychology #Headlore #goalconflict