Andrea Huffington commented recently in the Huffington Post on Sarah Palin’s use of archetypal imagery in the political ads that she has recently run with incredible success online. Huffington seeks to use the concepts of Jungian psychology to analyze Palin’s message. In my opinion, it’s a fruitful approach.
Entries Tagged as 'archetypal experience'
Sarah Palin, “Mama Grizzlies” and the Mother Archetype
August 15th, 2010 · No Comments · Carl Jung, Psychology, Psychology and Suburban Life, Psychotherapy, archetypal experience, archetypes, collective consciousness, depth psychology, mother archetype, parent-child interactions, popular culture, symbolism, unconscious
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Let’s Keep Jung’s Red Book Away from Spiritual Hucksterism
July 21st, 2010 · 5 Comments · Carl Jung, Identity, Individuation, Jungian analysis, Jungian psychology, Psychology, Psychology and Suburban Life, Psychotherapy, Shadow, The Self, archetypal experience, archetypes, collective consciousness, collective unconscious, unconscious, wholeness
Jung’s Red Book, which I wrote about in an earlier post, has created quite a stir in certain circles, and has been very well popularized. It has had quite an impact in cultural and literary circles, and has gained a lot of attention in the media. The Red Book documents Jung’s own profound psychological struggle in a manner so eloquent and deep that it is difficult if not impossible to describe. However, those of us who love Jung need to be careful not to portray it as some kind of divine revelation composed by a semi-divinity which answers all questions. Jung was very human, and he continually invites us to fully enter our own humanity.
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Exploring Liber Novis: Jung's Red Book
January 15th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Books, Carl Jung, Jungian psychology, The Self, archetypal experience, collective unconscious, depth psychology, inner life
This voyage of exploration will go on for a very long time, I expect. To really plumb the depths of the Red Book is a feat not lightly or easily acheived.
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Remembering and Renewal
December 31st, 2009 · No Comments · Hope, Identity, Individuation, The Self, archetypal experience, depth psychology, life passages
New Year's Eve and the New Year, with all its joy, and its bittersweet recollection of another year gone by, will soon be here. Another year of memories, and another year of living behind us, with everything that entails.
For many, 2009 couldn't end too soon. A year of stress and economic uncertainty like practically no [...]
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The Holly and the Ivy
December 19th, 2009 · No Comments · Hope, Individuation, Meaning, Relationships, The Holidays, The Self, archetypal experience, inner life, mythology, soul, wholeness
Once again the Holidays have rushed to be upon us. It often seems that, once we hit the first day of December, the calendar somehow catapults us forward through the month of December and into Hanukkah, Christmas and then the New Year.
It's a busy time, full of a combination of demands upon us, social times, [...]
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Mother, Father, Family
September 13th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Identity, archetypal experience, complexes, father archetype, feminine, inner life, masculinity, mother archetype
Here’s a quote from Jung on the key importance of the mother, father and family archetypes:
How is it then, you may ask, with the most ordinary everyday events, with immediate realities like husband, wife , father, mother, child? These ordinary everyday facts, which are eternally repeated, create the mightiest archetypes of all, whose ceaseless activity [...]
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Fantasies
May 3rd, 2009 · No Comments · Jungian analysis, Jungian psychology, Meaning, The Self, archetypal experience, depth psychology, inner life, soul, unlived life
So often the word “fantasy” is treated as a negative term. After all, aren’t we supposed to be realistic, and practical, and down-to-earth? How can our fantasies possibly help us to live our real lives?
Well, Jung has some interesting things to say on this topic, including the following, which is about the role of [...]
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Anxiety, Depression and My Own Truth
April 15th, 2009 · No Comments · Anxiety, Carl Jung, Individuation, Jungian psychology, Meaning, Psychotherapy, archetypal experience, depression, depth psychology, stress, wholeness
According to a recent New York Times article, people in North America are finding their lives more and more embroiled in anxiety. This is a social trend that started prior to the start of the economic downturn, and which has been increasing since that time, if the mass media are to be believed.
The Times article [...]
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Coraline: The Real, the Ideal and the Substance of our Lives
April 7th, 2009 · No Comments · Film, Jungian psychology, archetypal experience, depth psychology, parent-child interactions, puer aeternis, symbolism
Coraline is a recent movie, ostensibly geared to children. Nonetheless, it tells a story deeply rooted in the realities of soul. In that sense, its story is of deep relevance to all of us.
The film itself is something of a visual wonder. It is an exercise in 3-D stop motion photography, giving a film experience that certainly [...]
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The Archetype of the Divine Child
December 31st, 2008 · No Comments · Jungian psychology, The Self, archetypal experience, depth psychology
For those from Christian backgrounds, the narrative of the birth of the infant Jesus amidst all the various threatening circumstances that confronted him forms an important part of this season of the year.
The remarkable story of a divine child, apparently so vulnerable and so weak, who survives against all odds made a very compelling impression on me [...]
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