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’s Moral Relativism … man is a morally responsible […]
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Jung on Miracles
Here we have a little miracle. I have no prejudice against these little miracles. Such peculiar things take place occasionally, but how they are connected with our psychology God knows, I don’t. Only fools think that everything can be explained. The true substance of the world is inexplicable…. Jung (1929)1 One always is making the […]
Jung on Numbers
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 Numbers A mathematician once remarked that everything in […]
Jung on the Axiom of Maria Prophetessa
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 Prophetessa One becomes two, two […]
Psychological Entropy or Why We Don’t Want to Have All Our Wishes Fulfilled
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 Don’t Want to Have All Our Wishes Fulfilled […]
Jung on Psychotherapy, Spirituality and Sources of Healing
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 of one of Jung’s essays and provide […]
Jung and Others on Love and Power
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 Love and Power … Freud’s […]
Jung on the Transcendent Function
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 Transcendent Function The cooperation of conscious reasoning […]
The Ego’s Living Relation to the Self
“… 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 designate all things which cross […]
The Unconscious Will Take to You the Attitude You Take to It
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 Take to You the Attitude You Take to […]