Why Do We Do What We Do–Part I

Why Do We Do What We Do? Part I: Jung on Some Determinants of Human Behavior     … from the psychological standpoint five main groups of instinctive factors can be distinguished: hunger, sexuality, activity, reflection, and creativity. In the last analysis,...

Some Thoughts on Jung and Christian Moralists

“… nobody knows what is good and what is evil. It would all be terribly simple if we could go by the Decalogue or the penal code or any other moral codex, since all the sins catalogued there are obviously so pointless or morbid that no reasonable person could fail to...

The Religious Impulse in the Human Being

The Religious Impulse in the Human Being: Jung on Religion, Spirituality and the Life Worth Living   I want to make clear that by the term “religion” I do not mean a creed. It is, however, true that every creed is originally based on the one hand upon the...

Jung’s Moral Relativism

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.     Jung’s Moral Relativism  ...

Jung on Miracles

Here we have a little miracle. I have no prejudice against these little miracles. Such peculiar things take place occasionally, but how they are connected with our psychology God knows, I don’t. Only fools think that everything can be explained. The true substance of...

Jung on Terrorism

“… Everywhere in the West there are subversive minorities who, sheltered by our humanitarianism and our sense of justice, hold the incendiary torches ready, with nothing to stop the spread of their ideas except the critical reason of a single, fairly intelligent,...