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Jung on “Falling Into the Hole Backwards”

Nov 30, 2025 | Essays

“… 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

Oct 31, 2025 | Essays, Uncategorized

  “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

Sep 29, 2025 | Essays

  “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...

Soul Protection in a Time of Psychic Epidemics

Aug 28, 2025 | Essays

  “masses are always breeding-grounds of psychic epidemics”[1] “psychic epidemics …. destroy the individual.”[2] “As a rule, when the collective unconscious becomes really constellated in larger social groups, the result is a public...

Jung on Honing Our Discernment

Jul 29, 2025 | Essays

  “Eros is an interweaving; Logos is differentiating knowledge, clarifying light. Eros is relatedness, Logos is discrimination and detachment.”[1] “… the whole essence of consciousness is discrimination, distinguishing ego from non-ego, subject...

Celebrating Jung’s Life and Work

Jun 30, 2025 | Essays

  Carl Gustav Jung was born on July 26, 1875, in Kesswil, Switzerland. His early life was difficult, as his father Paul, a country parson in the Swiss Reformed Church, was poor and unable to provide Carl with sufficient food or answers to his questions about...