Culture The Error of Omission In Kerényi’s (1951) The Gods of the Greeks, Herakles is not given his own myth cycle, yet his presence ripples through the text appearing as a feature in…
Culture Intelectual Inheritance vs Systematic Ontology Tarnas and Shamdasani do not disagree about Jung’s concept of archetypes. They differ in approach, literary style, and objective focus. Tarnas maps the…
Culture The Dark Side of Domination: Machiavellian Complex Erisichthon’s myth enacts the anatomy of a shadowy complex with startling precision. When he desecrates Ceres’ sacred grove, he severs the ego from the…
Culture The Ancient Mythic Worldview: The Foundation for Archetypes The ancient mythic worldview did not treat the gods as metaphors. They were living presences embedded in the fabric of the cosmos. The visible world was…
Culture Big Dreams: Central Images as a Symbolic Talisman In Ernest Hartmann's work on the Central Image, I am impressed by how naturally his concept fits into my own dream life. Hartmann argues that what makes a…
Culture Existential Introspection: Contemplation in Context My decision to attend Pacifica was made many years before I arrived. Now that I am here, studying Jung in context under Susan’s guidance, I find myself in…
What C.G. Jung's Blind Spots can Reveal About Our Own How Subtle Prejudice or Racism Can Sneak In the Door
Culture Dreams: Between the Living & the Dead Today I attended the funeral for three people—a father, his son, and his nephew. I had known the father since we were fourteen. They passed after crashing…
Nature Body Dreaming in "My" Culture My dreams arrive in the language of my world — motorcycles, wilderness, construction, architectural forms, animals crossing unfamiliar landscapes. They…
Culture Verdict or Inquiry? The Problem with Putting Jung on Trial Before I can evaluate Jung's ethics between 1933 and 1940 from the material, I must insist on two prior questions: what precisely do we mean by…
Individuation & Gender: A Cultural Imperative Patriarchy, Psyche: Eros, Logos, and the Gendered Roots of the Unconscious
Adventure Spilled Suitcase Last night's dream: my father and I walked through a wooden building when we got separated in the winding, descending corridors. Alone, now in a dark…
The Night Maze Isn't a Metaphor On Imaginal Intelligence and the Dream That Doesn't Want Your Interpretation
Soul Death: C.G. Jung's Vivid Warning The War Inside Us: Freud vs. Jung and the Modern Struggle to Reconcile Sex, Spirit, and Meaning
Adventure Truckin' The semi-truck dream arrived the way Schul describes receiving a dream, not as a problem to decode, but as something to be hosted, the way Aizenstat…
Nature Dream Work as Embodied Sublimation Are Wolffe and Johnson encouraging us to act out our dreams, shadow material, and all? Yes, but not necessarily in a literal sense. In the context of…
Why Clinical Psychology is NOT "Scientific" Depth Psychology vs Clinical Psychology, which one requires greater faith?
Waking in Tears: Why Your Dreams Speak Through Your Body Moving beyond Jungian compensation to discover the dream's multivalent invitation
C.G. Jung's Autobiography Is a Myth (And That's the Point) Did Jung Lie About His Life to Teach You Psychology?
Culture Dreams On or On Dreams? Dream time is the fantastical and sometimes phantasmagorical abstract world in which organized waking consciousness dissolves into autonomous adventures…
Two sides, One Dream. Did Carl Jung Interpret His Dream Incorrectly? An Error That May Have Cost Jung His World Famous Friendship with S. Freud.
Transcendent Love: A Jungian Film Analysis of Rebecca (2020) Daphnie du Maurier's Dark Gothic Classic Descends into Potent Psychological Relationship Symbology
Depth Psychology & the Soul’s Speech: Psyche, Logos, & Postmodern Meaning-Making A History from Freud, Adler & Jung to "Depth Work" against the Reductionist's Medical Mental Health Model.
Carl Jung Great Mother Archetype & the Modern Relationship Crisis A recent Pew survey, summarized by DePaulo (2020), reports that half of socially single U.S. adults are not interested in a romantic relationship or even a date. Most striking, 71% of single women over 40, compared with 42% of men, say they are not looking for romance (DePaulo, 2020)
