Hopefully I have succeeded in making one very central thing clear: regret is not some peripheral thing in our lives that is going to be cleared away by simply improving our thinking. It strikes deeper. It is much more fundamental. How then are we to deal with the presence of regret in our lives? To answer this question in our own personal way, we have to meet this question for ourselves head on.
Entries Tagged as 'depression'
Escaping the Grip of Regret, Part 3: Through Phoenix Gate
August 11th, 2010 · 4 Comments · Individuation, Jungian analysis, Jungian psychology, Psychology and Suburban Life, Shadow, complexes, depression, depth psychology, guilt, inner life, regret, soul, therapy, unconscious, unlived life, wholeness
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Escaping the Grip of Regret, Part 2: The Power of Regret
July 29th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Hope, Individuation, Jungian analysis, Jungian psychology, Psychology, Psychology and Suburban Life, Psychotherapy, The Self, complexes, compulsion, decision, depression, depth psychology, guilt, inner life, life passages, midlife, regret, soul, therapy, unconscious, wholeness
In my last posting, I tried to open up the whole subject of regret, and the powerful and sometimes crippling place that it can occupy in our lives, and how we can be held in slavery to regret of all the choices we could have made differently, or courses of events that could have turned out differently. In this posting, I’d [...]
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Crisis
May 8th, 2010 · No Comments · Anxiety, Carl Jung, Identity, Individuation, Jungian analysis, Psychology, Psychology and Suburban Life, collective unconscious, complexes, depression, depth psychology, inner life, psychological crisis, soul, stress
Sometimes we can be overtaken by things that happen in the psyche. Such events can leave a person in a very vulnerable place struggling with intense anxiety, depression or stress. Often these psychic events are triggered by events in our outer lives. Nonetheless, it is their psychological impact, the things that they cause to happen [...]
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Here in the Middle Years of Life: Is That All There Is?
February 28th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Anxiety, Hope, Identity, Meaning, Mississauga, Oakville, Psychotherapy, The Self, depression, depth psychology, inner life, life passages, midlife, soul, stress, suburbia / exurbia, therapy
The great jazz artist Peggy Lee performed the following beautiful, highly disturbing yet haunting song in 1969, at midlife, in her 50th year:
I doubt that questions get much more real than those in this song. And the question that Peggy Lee sings about here is of the type, that, for many people, can become achingly urgent at [...]
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When You Hit a Brick Wall
July 13th, 2009 · No Comments · 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, Jungian analysis, Jungian psychology, Psychology and Suburban Life, Psychotherapy, The Self, depression, depth psychology, life passages, midlife, psychological crisis, soul, stress, 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 aware of [...]
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The Mirror of Relationship
May 18th, 2009 · No Comments · Carl Jung, Identity, Individuation, Meaning, Psychotherapy, Relationships, The Self, depression, depth psychology, life passages, midlife, soul, unlived life, wholeness
He woke up one day, and realized that he didn't recognize his marriage, his partner or himself. He realized that things had gone on in a certain way for years and years, but that for a long time now, he had just been going through the motions.
Certainly, he loved his kids, now in [...]
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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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A Quotation from Carl Jung on Midlife Transition
February 24th, 2009 · No Comments · Anxiety, Carl Jung, Individuation, Jungian analysis, Jungian psychology, Meaning, Psychotherapy, depression, depth psychology, dreams, life passages, midlife, soul, unlived life
As I mentioned in my last post, I'm planning to add some posts to this blog that are built around quotations from Carl Jung, in addition to the posts that are my own reflections.
This is because I think that Jung's own thoughts and language often have some very good things to say to us [...]
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Therapy: Pain-Killer or Path To Myself? PART TWO
February 16th, 2009 · No Comments · Identity, Individuation, Jungian analysis, Jungian psychology, Psychotherapy, The Self, anger, depression, depth psychology, soul, wholeness
This is the second part in my series "Therapy: Pain-Killer or Path to Myself?" PART ONE appeared last week. In this second part, I discuss some things from my own experience of therapy throughout the years, and in particular,
5 THINGS THAT SUSTAIN ME ON THE JOURNEY TO WHOLENESS
These are five particular insights that have often [...]
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