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Introversion and extroversion seem part of the ordinary identification with the automatism, which blocks the awareness of one's Buddha baby
"I give the name of symptomatic acts to those acts which people perform, as we say, automatically, unconsciously, without attending to them, or as if in a moment of distraction" (p. 76). Then, in the metapsychological texts, the word is used in three limited senses: a) the regulation of (unconscious) automatic processes by the pleasure principle (Beyond the Pleasure Principle, 1920g); b) so-called "automatic" anxiety when it is a question of the origin or the "automatic" appearance of anxiety (Inhibitions, Symptoms, and Anxiety, 1926d); and occasionally, c) the process of repression (1926d). - Freud
The noun Automatismus, "automatism," is also very rarely found in Freud's works. When Freud refers to it in Inhibition, Symptoms, and Anxiety in relation to the process of repression, he prefers the term "compulsion to repeat": "The new impulse will run its course under an automatic influence—or, as I should prefer to say, under the influence of the compulsion to repeat. It will follow the same path as the earlier repressed impulse, as if the danger-situation that had been overcome still existed" (p. 153). In the New Introductory Lectures (1933a [1932]), the term is directly connected to the principle of pleasure-unpleasure, in a sense essentially based on the (automatic) mode of regulation of unconscious processes, but that merges with anxiety and repression.
The term was used more frequently by Jacques Lacan, specifically starting in the fifties, when, under the influence of cybernetics, the question of automatons was on his mind. And so pure automatism became an essentially psychotic phenomenon.
Naw. Being an introvert or extrovert has nothing to do with a person's awareness, either can be aware or unaware, in or not in Buddha baby.
Automatism is too general of a word to be of much use here, other than to further cloud the water. It joins other vast and meaningless words, like some dark opposing side of "spiritual" and "wisdom". Behind every wise man is a dumb ass.
Automatism is just a word.
The ordinary "waking state" is one in which there is no consciousness of the mechanical reactions of the three functions. One can live their whole life without consciousness, identified with the acquired reactions of their functions to shocks from outside. And that is pretty much how the general life of humanity is, which we all have to learn to live with from birth to death.
We don't have to have to be the puppet of our reactions to outside shocks. We may be highly trained and educated, yet still live as a machine, mechanically.
With a very specific meaning, which (am I being redundant?) you continue to misuse, which is most common. Just as the other words I've sighted, i.e. spiritual and wisdom. How about holy? Sanctified? Yes, just words as they're used commonly.
I don't know what waking state you're talking about, or why you think only a certain spiritual elite can gain enough enlightenment to be conscious of being conscious. I think you must be underestimating an awful lot of people. "It doesn't take a weatherman to know which way the wind blows."
This body of ours is something like an electric battery in which a mysterious power latently lies. When this power is not properly brought into operation, it either grows mouldy and withers away or is warped and expresses itself abnormally. It is the object of Zen, therefore, to save us from going crazy or being crippled. This is what I mean by freedom, giving free play to all the creative and benevolent impulses inherently lying in our hearts. Generally, we are blind to this fact, that we are in possession of all the necessary faculties that will make us happy and loving towards one another. All the struggles that we see around us come from this ignorance. Zen, therefore, wants us to open a "third eye," as Buddhists call it, to the hitherto undreamed-of region shut away from us through our own ignorance. When the cloud of ignorance disappears, the infinity of the heavens is manifested, where we see for the first time into the nature of our own being. We now know the signification of life, we know that it is not blind striving, nor is it a mere display of brutal forces, but that while we know not definitely what the ultimate purport of life is, there is something in it that makes us feel infinitely blessed in the living of it and remain quite contented with it in all its evolution, without raising questions or entertaining pessimistic doubts.
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