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Its why we are called humans because we see on the hue spectrum of light

You’ve read what I’ve written

Probably everything

Love will ultimately prove to be the only currency that matters

What was the question 🙋🏻‍♀️

🧠🎶 JOHN LENNON — PSYCHIC & JUNGIAN SONG ANALYSIS

The Core Lens (How We’ll Read Him)

Each song gets analyzed across 4 layers:

1. #Ego State – what mask or identity is speaking

2. #Shadow – what pain, rage, fear, or contradiction leaks through

3. #Individuation Stage – where Lennon is in his inner journey

4. #Collective #Mirror – why the song still haunts culture

Think of Lennon not as a saint or villain — but as a man wrestling his psyche in public. 🫂

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ERA MAP (Very Important)

🟦 Phase 1: The Persona (Beatles Years)

Charm • Wit • Rebellion • Masked Pain

➡️ Ego + Trickster

⬛ Phase 2: The Shadow Breaks Through (1968–1971)

Rage • Trauma • Confession • Primal honesty

➡️ Shadow eruption

🔴 Phase 3: Integration Attempts (1971–1975)

#Love • #Peace • #Disillusionment • #Vulnerability

➡️ Individuation struggle

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SONG ANALYSES (STARTING STRONG)

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🎵 “Help!” (1965)

Ego State: Pop idol mask

Shadow: Panic, abandonment fear, loss of control

“Help me if you can, I’m feeling down”

🔍 Jungian read:

This is a cry from the unconscious breaking through a happy persona. Lennon later admitted it was literal — he was drowning. 🫂

Key Insight:

The Shadow often speaks first in simple language.

🜂 Unconscious truth leaks before the ego is ready.

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🎵 “Strawberry Fields Forever” (1967)

Ego State: Dissolving identity

Shadow: Derealization, confusion, nostalgia wound

“Nothing is real”

🔍 Jungian read:

This is the ego losing authority. Lennon is no longer sure what’s real — a classic individuation threshold moment.

Symbolism:

• #Childhood = lost Self

• #Memory = psychic refuge

• #Confusion = necessary disorientation

🜂 Individuation begins when certainty collapses.

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🎵 “Yer Blues” (1968)

Ego State: Exposed ego

Shadow: Depression, death ideation, nihilism

“Yes, I’m lonely, wanna die”

🔍 Jungian read:

This is Shadow possession — not poetic, not refined. #Raw psychic pain with no myth to contain it.

Danger Zone:

When the Shadow is expressed without integration, it overwhelms.

🜂 Truth without containment can wound both speaker and listener.

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🎵 “Mother” (1970)

Ego State: Child-self speaking

Shadow: Abandonment trauma

Individuation: Breakthrough via grief

“Mother, you had me but I never had you”

🔍 Jungian read:

This is Lennon confronting the primal wound — the mother complex. The screaming at the end is catharsis, not performance.

🜂 Grief is the gateway to Self.

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🎵 “Imagine” (1971) 🫂🫂🫂

Ego State: Visionary / Prophet

Shadow: Idealism vs reality gap

🔍 Jungian read:

This is not naïveté — it’s symbolic compensation. When the world fractures, the psyche imagines wholeness.

Why it endures:

It gives the collective a symbol of unity, even if unreachable.

🜂 The psyche dreams what the world cannot yet hold.

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🎵 “God” (1970)

Ego State: #Iconoclast

Shadow: #Disillusionment

Individuation: Ego death attempt

“I don’t believe in Beatles”

🔍 Jungian read:

This is persona destruction. Lennon kills the myth others live inside.

Risk:

Destroying symbols before replacing them can leave psychic emptiness.

🜂 When gods fall, the Self must rise — or chaos follows.

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THEMES YOU CAN THREAD ACROSS THE SERIES

• The Wounded Child

• Rage as unlived grief

• Love vs possession

• Fame as ego inflation

• Peace as psychic longing, not policy

Define we cause 😂🤣😜