Jung and Others on Transference and Countertransference

“The psychological process of transference is a specific form of the more general process of projection. It is important to bring these two concepts together and to realize that transference is a special case of projection… Projection is a general psychological...

Jung and Others on the Shaman and Shamanism

“The numinous experience of the individuation process is, on the archaic level, the prerogative of shamans and medicine men; later, of the physician, prophet, and priest; and finally, at the civilized stage, of philosophy and religion. The shaman’s...

Dealing with Parental Complexes

Dealing with Parental Complexes “Complexes are in truth the living units of the unconscious psyche, and it is only through them that we are able to deduce its existence and its constitution…. The via regia to the unconscious, however, is not the dream, as he...

Jung and Others on Fear Part IV: Managing Our Fears

Part IV: Managing Our Fears … make your fears your agenda.” Hollis (1996)[1]   … by “going through,” one breaks a hold of the primal fear that holds sway over much of our lives. To go through it with the insight and courage of an adult, to make friends with it,...

Jung and Others on Fear Part III

Part III: Men and Their Fears men’s lives are essentially governed by fear. Hollis (1994)   men’s two fundamental fears, the fear of not measuring up and the fear of physical or psychological trial. Hollis (1994)   Beneath displays of power is the complex; beneath the...

Jung and Others on Fear Part II

Part II: Fears of Knowing, Growing and Becoming Conscious “But modern man’s consciousness has strayed rather too far from the fact of the unconscious. We have even forgotten that the psyche is by no means of our design, but is for the most part autonomous and...