The Unspoken Wounding of Men
Jung’s earliest dream, at age three or four, preoccupied him all his life, “in an underground chamber, a giant phallus stood erect on a golden throne.” Majestic and luminous, it struck him with terror...
17 Juni 20211h 21min
Extroversion
Although Jung’s theory of typology is the foundation of various personality assessments, it is important to appreciate its profundity as Jung’s theory of consciousness. The four functions of conscious...
10 Juni 20211h 10min
The Power of NO
Toddlers have ready access to no as they discover the power of me—the start of a lifelong process of differentiating self from all that is other. When are personal needs, desires, and selfhood the pri...
3 Juni 20211h 7min
Risk & Reality: When Fear Traps Us
We can’t help knowing that something bad could happen if we do X…or Y…or maybe Z. Like Odysseus steering his ship between sea monsters Scylla and Charybdis, we must navigate between risk avoidance and...
27 Maj 20211h 14min
Assessing Your Values: Meaning & Motivation
There is value in examining your values, the powerful emotional and cognitive attitudes that underlie large and small life choices. Although values are initially acquired through family and institutio...
20 Maj 20211h 2min
INTROVERSION
The terms introversion and extraversion, now cultural staples, originated with Jung and describe the overall direction of life energy. The widely used Myers-Briggs Typology Indicator (MBTI), now avail...
13 Maj 20211h 26min
Tending the Ego-Self Axis: Reconnecting with Source
Erich Neumann publicly proposed the concept of the ego-Self (or Self-ego) axis and began to sketch its implications in his 1952 Eranos lecture, "The Psyche and the Transformation of the Reality Planes...
6 Maj 20211h 4min
When Words Lose Their Meaning
In 1543, Andreas Vesalius dissected a corpse, thereby inaugurating a scientific attitude toward the human body. This new attitude taught us to stand aside from our identification and connection with t...
29 Apr 20211h 37min
