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An Interview With the Late Jungian Analyst Edward Edinger

An Interview With the Late Jungian Analyst Edward Edinger Why our immigrant heritage makes us the “last, best hope of the world.” Posted January 13, 2018 ungian analyst Edward Edin...

Carl Jung: I have become an ascetic, a hermit in the pleasure gardens of the earth

Carl Jung: I have become an ascetic, a hermit in the pleasure gardens of the earth “Dear Hedy Wyss! Your letter presses deeply into the strings, sounding out chords that reverberat...

J. Glenn Friesen, Jung and Western Mysticism

J. Glenn Friesen, Jung and Western Mysticism D. False Individuation There has not been enough discussion in Jungian psychology of false ways in which we attempt to individuate. Not...

Marie-Louise von Franz: Final Resurrection as a Reunion of the Psyche with the Body

Marie-Louise von Franz: Final Resurrection as a Reunion of the Psyche with the Body The principal part of the Komarios text continues as follows: But when the dark, fetid spirit (p...

You Have Already Died: Jung's Rebirth Archetype

The psyche rehearses death long before we understand what it's preparing us for.

What We May Become: Why Psychosynthesis Still Matters

A century-old psychology asks a remarkably modern question: Who are we becoming?

Jung in Azeroth: The Psychology of WoW Forever

Archetypes, adventure, and play, through a Jungian lens.

Max Knoll: Transformations of Science in Our Age

Max Knoll: Transformations of Science in Our Age When we compare the present state of science with that of a few decades ago, we gain the impression that it has grown in something...

Carl Jung, Letters to Hedy Wyss 1936 – Quotations

         Carl Jung, Letters to Hedy Wyss 1936 – Quotations ” also think that it would not be bad if you read some more serious things during this time, because such things are not...

A Review of A Jungian Life, by Tom Kirsch

If anyone can legitimately have claimed to have lived A Jungian Life it would be Thomas B. (aka Tom) Kirsch. It wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say that Jungian DNA oozed from his p...

Jane R. Prétat: Coming to Age : The Croning Years and Late-life

Jane R. Prétat: Coming to Age : The Croning Years and Late-life Jung’s Late-Life Transition In 1932, when he was fifty-seven, Carl Gustav Jung published an essay, “The Development...

God’s Wretched Servants: The Father’s Ambiguity

God’s Wretched Servants: The Father’s Ambiguity The following myth reformulates several themes regarding human existence and describes very well what I call the propitious attitude...

What We Must Lose and Mourn in a Successful Analysis

To allow ourselves to grow in psychoanalysis, we must let go of many wishes, fantasies, and defenses that kept us safe as children. These losses are painful and must be mourned.

A Generation of Lost Boys

Jungian psychology helps young men become whole again by listening to their own unconscious rather than copying generic online scripts. The post A Generation of Lost Boys appeared...

Sex, Death and Adolescence

Psychoanalytic theory, including Freud's ideas about the life and death drives, can help us understand the process of adolescence.

Inner Space, Outer Space, and How to Be an Astronaut in the Cosmos of Connection: Eric Berne on the Key to True Intimacy

"A star is the glowing light inside the other person, distantly seen, brave soul’s tiny flame, too bright to approach without great courage and integrity."

Mary Sidoli: When the meaning gets lost in the body

Mary Sidoli: When the meaning gets lost in the body In this chapter I will explore severe physical symptoms exhibited by patients at crucial stages of their analysis, which tend to...

How to Handle the Self-Affirmed

Based on the wisdom of Christian Psychiatrist Conrad Baars

The Medical Model in American Psychoanalysis

An American psychoanalytic tradition shows how diagnosis, science, and psychological meaning can complement one another.

A Confusing Prescription

The most important goal of the very sophisticated unconscious mind is to bring the interior discussion called a dream outside to waking life, where feedback lives.

The Three Elements of the Good Life

To be a true person is to be entirely oneself in every circumstance, with all the courage and vulnerability this requires. And yet because a person is a confederacy of parts often...

Looking Inward Won’t Make You Authentic

Genuine authenticity is not achieved through self-absorbed introspection but by transcending the ego in the present moment to anchor oneself in community, active love, and the divi...

Hermann Hesse on Discovering the Soul Beneath the Self and the Key to Finding Peace

"Self-hate is really the same thing as sheer egoism, and in the long run breeds the same cruel isolation and despair."

Intellectualisation: When Explaining Your Feelings Replaces Having Them