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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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
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.
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Escaping the Grip of Regret, Part 1
July 26th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Psychology, Psychology and Suburban Life, Psychotherapy, complexes, compulsion, depth psychology, guilt, life passages, midlife, regret, soul, therapy, unlived life, wholeness
Regret can be a potent emotion, and a great many of us have experienced its power. In my next few postings, I will be examining the phenomenon of regret, and the way it impacts us. It can have a huge grip on us. It can even imprison us, and embitter us beyond words. But, let me ask a question that might seem strange: Is there health in regret?
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Anxiety Behind the Mask, Part 1
June 22nd, 2010 · 2 Comments · Film, Identity, Individuation, Jungian analysis, Jungian psychology, Psychology, Psychology and Suburban Life, Psychotherapy, inner life, mythology, persona, popular culture, soul, unlived life, wholeness
When I was 9 or 10 years old, I was an insatiable Iron Man fan. I used to race to the local drug store every day to see if a new issue of my hero’s adventures had hit the stands yet. I still admire Stan Lee and those who developed the Iron Man character: he [...]
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Between Childrens' and Parents' Needs: the Generational Anxiety Sandwich
February 15th, 2010 · No Comments · Current Affairs, Jungian analysis, Psychotherapy, The Self, complexes, compulsion, depth psychology, parent-child interactions, parental complex, therapy, unlived life, wholeness
In this post, I would like to write about something that may have a sense of "taboo" about it.
For many of us in the present day world, a powerful struggle goes on in our middle years. There are greater and greater demands on our personal reserves of compassion, empathy, time, energy and money. These resources are [...]
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Identity and Anxiety in the Film, "Up In the Air"
January 22nd, 2010 · 1 Comment · Anxiety, Current Affairs, Film, Identity, Individuation, Meaning, depth psychology, life passages, midlife, persona, puer aeternis, unlived life, wholeness, work
Make no mistake, moving is living. -Ryan Bingham
"Up in the Air", directed by Jason Reitman, stars George Clooney, Vera Farmiga and Anna Kendrick. Clooney's character Ryan Bingham is a full-time corporate down-sizer whose life consists of an endless stream of business travel ("322 days last year"). He moves from place to place, letting people go from [...]
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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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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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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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Is My Unconscious My Fate?
May 9th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Jungian psychology, Relationships, Shadow, The Self, depth psychology, inner life, unlived life, wholeness
A number of people reading the blog have asked me about a certain quotation, and so I thought that I would write something about it. The quotation is short, but it contains some important things. Jung writes:
"The psychological rule says that when an inner situation is not made conscious, it happens outside, as fate. That [...]
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