Aug 30, 2015 | Essays
A Commentary on Passages in Collected Works 11 Most essays on this blog site start with a topic or theme found in Jung’s works and then develop an essay based on Jung’s ideas about the topic. This essay uses the opposite approach: I start with a section...
Jul 31, 2015 | Essays
… “isms” [are] so fanatically believed in by modern man. Jung (1947)[1] Our fearsome gods have only changed their names: they now rhyme with ism. Jung (1938)[2] … a hundred intelligent heads massed together make one big fathead… The masses always incline to herd...
Jul 30, 2015 | 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. Jung and Others on...
Jul 15, 2015 | Essays
… primitive psychology shuns abstractions. There are practically no concepts in primitive languages. In Arabic, there are sixty words for types of camels and no word for camel in the abstract…. Jung (1984)[1] It is in the nature of political bodies always to see the...
Jun 27, 2015 | Essays
The cooperation of conscious reasoning with the data of the unconscious is called the ‘transcendent function…. This function progressively unites the opposites. Psychotherapy makes use of it to heal neurotic dissociations, but this function had already served as the...
May 30, 2015 | Essays
“… I do know that I am obviously confronted with a factor unknown in itself, which I call ‘God,’… It is an apt name given to all overpowering emotions in my own psychic system, subduing my conscious will and usurping control over myself. This is the name by which I...
