Under the surface of suburbia, life is the same here as it is anywhere else. The endless communities of single family dwellings stretch out and stretch out, beyond where the eye can see. Yet beneath the appearances, there are a myriad of individual lives. People are moving through life towards their individual destinies, with happiness or with discontent, with sorrow or exultation, with unresolved pain and grief, or with yearning. Each of us is a story, and each of us is a journey, and that the only real freedom is in finding our own true nature.
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Under the Surface of Suburbia
August 20th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Carl Jung, Halton Region, Home, Individuation, Jungian analysis, Jungian psychology, Mississauga, Oakville, Peel Region, Psychology and Suburban Life, Psychotherapy, collective consciousness, depth psychology, psychotherapist, soul, suburbia / exurbia, unlived life, wholeness
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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
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.
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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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Anxiety Behind the Mask, Part III: Heart Trouble
July 11th, 2010 · No Comments · Carl Jung, Current Affairs, Identity, Individuation, Jungian psychology, Lifestyle, Meaning, Psychology, Psychology and Suburban Life, collective consciousness, collective unconscious, depth psychology, inner life, persona, popular culture, soul, symbolism, unconscious, wholeness
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Anxiety Behind the Mask, Part III, Heart Trouble
…I asked him why he thought the whites were all mad.Â
“They say that they think with their heads,” he replied.
“Why of course. Â What do you think with?” I asked him in surprise.
“We think here,” he said, indicating his heart. [Italics mine]
Conversation between Ochway Biano, Chief of the Pueblo Indians and [...]
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G20 Toronto: What the Heck Just Happened?
July 6th, 2010 · No Comments · Carl Jung, Current Affairs, G20, Ontario, Psychology and Suburban Life, Toronto, Trauma, collective consciousness, collective unconscious, complexes, depth psychology, panic, popular culture, trust
On June 26 and 27, the leaders of the G20 nations and numerous other nations met in downtown Toronto. For many living in this area, what happened in the course of those two days has something of the character of a nightmare in the collective psyche of the City of Toronto, and indeed, the whole of the [...]
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Women, Men and Marilyn Monroe
March 7th, 2010 · No Comments · Anima, Film, collective consciousness, feminine, masculine, popular culture, soul
Few people have gripped the imagination of popular culture in the era since World War II like Marilyn Monroe. An iconic and fateful figure for both women and men. A figure combining elements of both the erotic goddess and the cautionary tale. Her story is disturbing. In some important sense, she will not leave [...]
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I'm NOT Merely "One of 7,000,000,000"!
June 1st, 2009 · No Comments · Carl Jung, Identity, Individuation, Jungian psychology, The Self, collective consciousness, soul
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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What is a Real Man? PART ONE
April 28th, 2009 · No Comments · Identity, Individuation, Jungian psychology, Mississauga, Oakville, Psychology, collective consciousness, depth psychology, masculinity, men, persona
We live in a society and a time when this has become a burning question with which many men are struggling. The old understandings of maleness and masculine identity don't work any more, but what are we supposed to put in their place?
Recently, I attended a production by Toronto's Soulpepper Theatre of the David Mamet play Glengarry Glen [...]
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Jung Sends an Email to Suburbanites!
April 21st, 2009 · No Comments · Carl Jung, Individuation, Jungian psychology, collective consciousness, depth psychology, soul, suburbia / exurbia
Well… okay, not exactly. It's true that the following quotation doesn't have suburbia directly in mind. But Jung does manage to touch on some of the biggest psychological issues for the outer- and other- oriented suburb dweller of the present day.
At least, I certainly think he does.
Here's what he says:
"The externalization of culture [...]
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Jung on North America's Anxiety and Individuation Dilemma
March 16th, 2009 · No Comments · Anxiety, Carl Jung, Current Affairs, Identity, Individuation, Jungian analysis, Lifestyle, Meaning, Psychotherapy, The Self, collective consciousness, depth psychology, popular culture, soul, 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 the [...]
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