Feb 28, 2011 | Essays
“… the alarming poverty of symbols… is now the condition of our life…” Jung, “Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious” (1934)[1] “I am convinced that the growing impoverishment of symbols has a meaning. It is a development that has an inner consistency. Everything...
Jan 31, 2011 | Essays
“… I can leave a lot of things to the Unknown. They do not bother me. But they would begin to bother me, I am sure, if I felt that I ought to know about them.”[1] Jung, Psychological Reflections (1953) “Only our intellectualized age could have been so deluded as to...
Jan 3, 2011 | Essays
How to Internalize a Locus of Control, a Locus of Authority and a Locus of SecurityA Follow-Up Essay “Among my patients from many countries, all of them educated persons, there is a considerable number who came to see me not because they were suffering from...
Sep 30, 2010 | Essays
Why Go Into Analysis? “The analytical procedure, especially when it includes a systematic dream-analysis, is a ‘process of quickened maturation,’ as Stanley Hall once aptly remarked.”[1] Jung, 1945“…psychoanalysis… gives the patient a working philosophy of life...
Aug 31, 2010 | Essays
“What most people overlook or seem unable to understand is the fact that I regard the psyche as real…”[1] “The ‘reality of the psyche’ is my working hypothesis, and my principal activity consists in collecting factual material to describe and explain it. I have set up...
Jul 31, 2010 | Essays
Jung on Adult Education, or Why the Jungian Center? “…when I speak of the goal which marks the end of the second half of life, you get an idea how far the treatment in the first half of life, and the second half of life must needs be different…. Therefore I...
