Out here in suburbia, great pressure is often placed on people to “look good”. People feel all kinds of pressure to keep their image in the finest order. We get the message that it’s important to keep your grass well-cut and your garden well-manicured. It’s important to drive a car that makes you look [...]
Entries from July 27th, 2009
Looking Good… Feeling Empty
July 27th, 2009 · 4 Comments · depth psychology, Identity, Individuation, inner life, Jungian psychology, Meaning, persona, popular culture, Psychotherapy
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Is Attending to Your Dreams "Worth It"?
July 16th, 2009 · No Comments · Carl Jung, depth psychology, dreams, Jungian analysis, Jungian psychology, Psychotherapy, wholeness
There are some people who might look a bit oddly at you if you tell them you pay close attention to your dreams. To some people, in fact, it seems like an incredibly "flaky" thing to do. Often, these people subscribe to the "daily regurgitation" theory of dreaming. Their understanding of where dreams come from is [...]
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When You Hit a Brick Wall
July 13th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Carl Jung, depression, depth psychology, unlived life, wholeness
Often people get to the point in life where they reach an impasse, and they don't know how to solve a particular situation in their lives. There doesn't seem to be a way forward and there doesn't seem to be a solution. Although this can happen at any point in life, it seems particularly prevalent at mid-life. Often, the way one becomes [...]
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When You Hit a Brick Wall
July 9th, 2009 · No Comments · Carl Jung, depression, depth psychology, Jungian analysis, Jungian psychology, life passages, midlife, psychological crisis, Psychology and Suburban Life, Psychotherapy, soul, stress, The Self, unconscious, wholeness
Often people get to the point in life where they reach an impasse, and they don’t know how to solve a particular situation in their lives. There doesn’t seem to be a way forward and there doesn’t seem to be a solution. Although this can happen at any point in life, it seems particularly prevalent at mid-life. Often, the way one becomes [...]
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Other People?
July 7th, 2009 · No Comments · Carl Jung, Identity, Individuation, Jungian psychology, Relationships, Shadow, unlived life
Here's a reflection-provoking quote from Jung on how we tend to see other people. "Everybody thinks that psychology is what he himself knows best – psychology is always his psychology, which he alone knows, and at the same time his psychology is everybody else's psychology. Instinctively he supposes that his own psychic constitution is the general one, and [...]
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