Typically, we see the work of the devil as the “shadow of God.” In some social and Jungian interpretations, we see evil as a shadow of an asymmetrical God-image. Then, postulate the corrective for what the Western God-image may impose, i.e., patriarchy, etc. As if once the

Artist: Jake Baddeley      The contemporary surge of artificial intelligence repeats the Titanic–Promethean pattern: collective faith in technical “gigantism.”  A possible hubristic inflation, which invites compensatory descent and sacrifice. Drawing on Jung’s account of unconscious compensation and individuation, a psychologically informed relation to AI would cultivate sacrificial limits and

Artist: Jake Baddeley Science, as far as it is defined by its methodology more so than its aims, is indispensable even if objectively imperfect. Despite the inherent limitations of scientific objectivity, the psychological heuristic approach remains one of the most valuable ways to engage the subject–object dilemma, not by

Artist: Jake Baddeley Field Notes: The Essential Jung by Anthony Storr Jung makes a distinction between a “big dream” and an “ordinary dream.” Such “motifs," he says, are typically “highly impressive,” “numinous,” and “analogous or even identical to mythology.” Jung refers to these patterns as “structures,” and he then

Once upon a time, I floated weightlessly in the waters. I was the water, and water was me. As an infant-child, I was mother and mother was me, then I became the world and the world was me. What I did, and what I did not do, what I

Artist: Jake Baddeley  I have thought about this question before, considering whether the answer lies in their merits or more in observing social phenomena. Adler, Freud, and Jung were contemporaries in a shifting cultural landscape. A period in history teeming with national tensions, war, and a burgeoning curiosity for defining

Artist: Jake Baddeley A complex is a complicated psychological function, apprehended as “the feeling-toned groups of representation in the unconscious” (p. 6). Considering its dual nature as both a developmental and environmental response to an archetypal image "projected onto an external object or person” (p. 16), and its

Artist: Jake Baddeley "The structuring of our minds makes us experience existence in the dualistic form of the world of ‘outer’ objects, which we are able to organize, and of ‘inner’ impulses, which we find hard to master" (Whitmont, 1969, p. 29). This dualism reflects an essential problem

I tend to get too far ahead of myself. My mind is miles down the road swirling with concepts I hope to introduce in the years ahead. This blog is intended to be a growing repository and doesn’t necessarily correlate to where I am personally in my journey or

Artwork: Jake Baddeley I have gotten all I have ever wanted. Magic is real. I loved a girl. Joy arrives on the sunrise of every sorrow. Sadness from loss is the reward for loving a pet. Theater and impulse is the thirsty eternal child. The desert reveals the oasis and

Artwork: Jake Baddeley “First and foremost, you don’t do it alone—you need a person to see it.” Nathan Schwartz-Salant, Ph.D. The Darkness Concealed The sun rises, the lights turn on, and the day’s ritual begins again. The conscious mind is awake—or so it seems.

Artwork: Jake Baddeley A Shattered Mirror: The Modern Crisis of Meaning In the age of hyper-connectivity, normalized superficiality, lust for love and endless distraction, the search for purpose has become a journey riddled with paradox and yet, paradox is the name of the game in Dualityville. Our world is