Jung on Science and Scientism

  “… as a doctor and scientist, I proceed from facts which everyone is at liberty to verify.”[1] “Science is not indeed a perfect instrument, but it is a superb and invaluable tool that works harm only when it is taken as an end in...

Tools for Crafting a Positive “Curioser and Curioser” Future

  “… the darkness … is illuminated only by what, to it, is unexpected, unwanted, and incomprehensible.”                                                                                                             Jung (1954)[1] “… through the...

Jung on “Falling Into the Hole Backwards”

“… anyone accepting the task of individuation… is destined to descend into a deep pit [and] had better set about it with all the necessary precautions rather than risk filling into the hole backwards.”...

Transforming Anger into Action

  “All psychological phenomena have some such sense of purpose inherent in them, even merely reactive phenomena like emotional reactions. Anger over an insult has its purpose in revenge; the purpose of ostentatious mourning is to arouse the sympathy of...

Jung on the Forms and Features of Secrets

  “Man needs to have secrets, and… the real ones come to him out of the depths of the unconscious,…”[1] “It is not we who have secrets, it is the real secrets that have us.”[2] “Nothing makes people more lonely, and more cut off from...