This has been an extremely busy time for me, and I apologize to those of you who may have been expecting that I would be posting before now. I have a number of somewhat longer posts that I expect to put up on the blog before very long, but I thought that today I [...]
Entries from March 26th, 2009
"People Don't Say What's On Their Minds"
March 26th, 2009 · No Comments · Carl Jung, depth psychology, Identity, Jungian analysis, Jungian psychology, Lifestyle, persona, Psychology, Psychotherapy, soul
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Real Alchemy: Jung, Psychological Growth & Individuation
March 19th, 2009 · No Comments · Carl Jung, depth psychology, Individuation, Jungian analysis, Jungian psychology, Psychology, Psychotherapy, soul, wholeness
Here’s a quotation from Jung that’s quite brief, but it says a mouthful: “The opus (work) consists of three parts: insight, endurance and action. Psychology is needed only in the first part, but in the second and third parts, moral strength plays the predominant role…” Jung is here describing the individuation process. What he observes [...]
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Jung on North America's Anxiety and Individuation Dilemma
March 16th, 2009 · No Comments · Anxiety, Carl Jung, collective consciousness, Current Affairs, depth psychology, Identity, Individuation, Jungian analysis, Lifestyle, Meaning, popular culture, Psychotherapy, soul, The Self, wholeness
In 1931, over 75 years ago, C. G. Jung gave an interview to an American journalist in Vienna. In it, he laid out a description of what he saw as some of the central dilemmas facing Americans. In this moment, we are in the aftermath of the subprime mortgage and financial crises, and hopefully at [...]
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Stress, Anxiety and Basic Trust PART ONE: Rooted in Myself
March 12th, 2009 · No Comments · Anxiety, Carl Jung, Current Affairs, depth psychology, Identity, Individuation, Jungian analysis, Jungian psychology, Psychotherapy, soul, stress, The Self
Here in Oakville, Mississauga and the surrounding areas, many people are really feeling the impact of recent economic events. There is a strong sense that the last 6-8 months have brought a lot of changes to people's economic and business situations. Things are not feeling anywhere near as secure as they did even a year ago. [...]
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Carl Jung on Dreams
March 6th, 2009 · No Comments · Carl Jung, depth psychology, dreams, Jungian analysis, Jungian psychology, symbolism, wholeness
Dreams figure prominently in Carl Jung's psychology, and he has a great deal to teach us about them. The quotation that follows builds very well on my earlier post in which Jung reflects on the position that many people find themselves in at mid-life. "Through scientific understanding, our world has become dehumanized. Man feels himself isolated in [...]
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Therapy: Pain-Killer or Path To Myself? PART THREE
March 2nd, 2009 · No Comments · depth psychology, Identity, Individuation, Jungian analysis, Jungian psychology, Psychotherapy, soul, The Self, wholeness
This is the third part and final part in my series "Therapy: Pain-Killer or Path to Myself?" PART ONE dealt with some of the familiar things that go on when people start therapy, and PART TWOfocused on "Five Things that Sustain Me on the Journey to Wholeness". In this last part, I discuss a major issue [...]
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