I have been requested to identify the author of these essays: Sue Mehrtens, founder and President of The Jungian Center. My bio can be found elsewhere on this Web site. Several readers of the blog have asked me to indicate my credentials and background here—how am I...
“… the problem of sacrifice [may seem to be]… a purely individual problem, but if we examine the way it is worked out we shall see that it is something that must be a problem for humanity in general.” Jung (1950)[1] “[when]… an act of sacrifice takes place,… a process...
Jung the Man:Part VI—Jung and His “Valkyries” “Woman’s psychology is founded on the principle of Eros, the great binder and loosener, whereas from ancient times the ruling principle ascribed to man is Logos. The concept of Eros could be expressed in modern...
Jung as Father and Husband “Can you imagine living with a man who left you with full responsibility for his house and his children while he passed the time playing their games or being in that same house with another woman?… When we got home, Marianne ran across...
Jung the Man:Part IV—His Shadow and Complexes “As great as he was he must also have had a great shadow.”Laurens Van der Post (1975)[1] Great gifts are the fairest, and often the most dangerous, fruits on the tree of humanity. In most cases… the gift develops...
Jung the Man: Part III—His Type and Personality “Everybody would call me an introvert.” Jung, 1955[1] “One does not doubt at all the introversion. Only introversion of the deepest kind can explain why outwardly his life was so uneventful and inwardly so packed and...
