It may come as a shock to realize it, but a human being is not just one solid big lump of personality, with unified intent and will. This is what most people choose to believe, but the psychological truth is quite different. In each of us there are many parts, many elements that go into the composition [...]
Entries from June 30th, 2009
Complexes
June 30th, 2009 · No Comments · complexes, depth psychology, Individuation, Jungian psychology, Psychotherapy
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Meaningful Life
June 17th, 2009 · No Comments · depth psychology, life passages, Meaning, meaningful life, midlife
The Toronto Globe and Mail in an article this morning cited research by Dr. Patricia A. Boyle and her colleagues at the Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, and published in Psychosomatic Medicine, tending to empirically confirm something that psychotherapists and counsellors have known from their practices for a very long time: A more meaningful life [...]
When the Unconscious Becomes Conscious
June 9th, 2009 · No Comments · Psychology and Suburban Life
Here is a very evocative quote from Jung on the effect of integrating unconscious material into our conscious selves. He stresses that what happens to us is fundamentally beyond description, and yet fundamentally real. "What happens within oneself when one integrates previously unconscious contents with the consciousness is something which can scarcely be described by words. [...]
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I'm NOT Merely "One of 7,000,000,000"!
June 1st, 2009 · No Comments · Carl Jung, collective consciousness, Identity, Individuation, Jungian psychology, soul, The Self
Sometimes you read something in the newspaper or online that strikes you as just plain wrong. That was my reaction when I read a recent article in the Globe and Mail, 7,000,000,000 grains 7,000,000,000 stories. It seems that James Yarker, of the theatre collective Stan's Cafe had a great deal of trouble visualizing the enormity [...]
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