Jung on Self-Partnering

“The symbols of divinity coincide with those of the self: what, on the one side, appears as a psychological experience signifying psychic wholeness, expresses on the other side the idea of God. This is not to assert a metaphysical identity of the two, but merely the...

In Defense of Jung

Sue Mehrtens is the author of this and all the other blog essays on this site. The opinions expressed in these essays are her own and do not necessarily reflect the views or opinions of other Jungian Center faculty or Board members.  Honesty, as well as...

Jung’s Deathbed Vision and Our Future

“I see enormous stretches devastated, enormous stretches of the earth. But, thank God not the whole planet.”                                                                                     Jung (1961)[1] “The threat from climate change is more...

The Value of History

Sue Mehrtens is the author of this and all the other blog essays on this site. The opinions expressed in these essays are her own and do not necessarily reflect the views or opinions of other Jungian Center faculty or Board members.  Honesty, as well as...

Jung on Happiness

Sue Mehrtens is the author of this and all the other blog essays on this site. The opinions expressed in these essays are her own and do not necessarily reflect the views or opinions of other Jungian Center faculty or Board members.  Honesty, as well as...

Unpopular Things

  “Unpopular Things:” Jung’s “Uncanny Attraction” to Unorthodox Topics “… nothing new from within has happened, as it has done so often before, but… in came the question: what do you think about the Flying Saucers?–This...