Nov 24, 2016 | Essays
“[The introverted thinking type]… tends to vanish behind a cloud of misunderstanding… Although he will shrink from no danger in building up his world of ideas, and never shrinks from thinking a thought because it might prove to be dangerous, subversive, heretical, or...
Oct 29, 2016 | Essays
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 professional...
Sep 29, 2016 | Essays
The Fulfillment of Life “… We are so convinced that death is simply the end of a process that it does not ordinarily occur to us to conceive of death as a goal and a fulfillment, ….” Jung (1934)[1] “From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive...
Sep 21, 2016 | Essays
“The trickster is a collective shadow figure, a summation of all the inferior traits of character in individuals. And since the individual shadow is never absent as a component of personality, the collective figure can construct itself out of it continually.” Jung...
Aug 31, 2016 | Essays
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 professional...
Jul 30, 2016 | Essays
Man cannot stand a meaningless life. Jung (1959)[1] Meaninglessness inhibits fullness of life and is therefore equivalent to illness. Meaning makes a great many things endurable—perhaps everything. Jung (1965)[2] … when we are unconscious, life has no meaning. Jung...
