Curious about my sexuality from a Jungian perspective

The past few years, I have been getting very into Jung. It seems to be a lot easier to analyze other people than yourself, hence why I am asking what you guys think. For context, I’m male. I have been in relationships with women and men, and have not been into any type of sex. Romantically speaking, I seem to be much more into men. I think about relationships with them much more often and in real life, I seem to enjoy their company much more than women (at least in a romantic and intimate sense). I have oftentimes come to awareness through psychedelics. When my unconscious becomes more conscious in these experiences, I start having imagery of having sex with many women. This is strange, considering I’ve thought of myself as if anything asexual. During one particularly religious trip, it seemed the veil of reality was lifted and everyone around me (men, at the time) wanted to have sex, meaning that everyone was repressed bisexual. Then, a voice said “then God created women”, and my friends girlfriend walked in with him and I saw her for all her beauty. This experience, despite its terror and raw beauty, left me feeling guilty about my normal waking consciousness. I would fantasize about men romantically, but this was clearly neuroses, right? However, on a more recent trip, I was with a few guy friends and went to my room. I started doing breathing exercises which lead me higher and higher into transcendental consciousness - and the imagery seemed to be largely homosexual (perhaps because I was with all men), but a very intelligent loving awareness seemed to be telling me their was nothing wrong with it, and that adhering to any notion of “there is something wrong with me” is ignorant. Now, I’m here, struggling very much with identity. Why do I have such strong sexual imagery in my unconscious when normally I seem to be asexual? Should I be trying to open up more to women, even though men feel more comfortable? I just don’t want to end up pursuing a comfortable neuroses instead of waking up to who it is I am.

Posted Apr 9, 2025, 8:30 PM UTC

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