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...
Apr 29, 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. The Unconscious Will...
Mar 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 One-Sidedness...
Feb 26, 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. The Value of...
Jan 30, 2015 | Essays
… I regard the attitude of the unconscious as compensatory to consciousness… Jung (1921)[1] Compensation… as the term implies, means balancing and comparing different data or points of view so as to produce an adjustment or a rectification. Jung (1945)[2] The...
