Oct 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 on the Axiom of Maria...
Sep 16, 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. Psychological Entropy or Why We...
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...