May 30, 2024 | Essays
Part III: Men and Their Fears men’s lives are essentially governed by fear. Hollis (1994) men’s two fundamental fears, the fear of not measuring up and the fear of physical or psychological trial. Hollis (1994) Beneath displays of power is the complex; beneath the...
Apr 30, 2024 | Essays
Part II: Fears of Knowing, Growing and Becoming Conscious “But modern man’s consciousness has strayed rather too far from the fact of the unconscious. We have even forgotten that the psyche is by no means of our design, but is for the most part autonomous and...
Mar 28, 2024 | Essays
“The spirit of evil is fear, negation, the adversary who opposes life in its struggle for eternal duration and thwarts every great deed, …” Jung (1952) “Fear, however, is an admission of inferiority; it shrinks back from chaos and longs for solid,...
Feb 28, 2024 | Essays
“… in psychology there are no blind accidents, much as we are inclined to assume that these things are pure chance. You can hear this objection is often as you like from our critics, but for a really scientific mind there are only causal relationships and no...
Jan 31, 2024 | Essays
… active imagination… is a method (devised by myself) of introspection for observing the stream of interior images.” “… the method of ‘active imagination’ … I have been using for more than thirty years in the treatment of neurosis, as a means...
Dec 31, 2023 | Essays
“The imaginatio is to be understood here as the real and literal power to create images (Einbildskraft = imagination) – the classical usage of the word in contrast to phantasia, which means a mere “conceit,” “idea,” or “hunch” in the sense of insubstantial...
