by Joseph Lee | Jul 22, 2021 | Core Jungian Concepts, Metaphysical
Photo Credit: Benjamin Davies via Unsplash In Answer to Job, Jung states, “Whoever knows God has an effect on him.” If, as Jung claims, individual human consciousness affects God, what we are matters monumentally. When we serve our neuroses, the gulf between ego and...
by Joseph Lee | Jul 15, 2021 | Core Jungian Concepts
Although the concept of archetypes has philosophical ancestors, Jung’s theory was developed over time and rested on a foundation that was scientific and empirical. Research and experiment enabled Jung to establish the autonomous activity of the unconscious. He was...
by Joseph Lee | Jun 24, 2021 | Core Jungian Concepts
Photo Credit: Joseph Lee https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/thisjungianlife/TJL_169-Thresholds.mp3 In medieval times, the threshold was a plank that kept barnyard “threshings” outside the house. In the sciences, a threshold is the limit of magnitude or intensity that...
by Joseph Lee | Jun 10, 2021 | Core Jungian Concepts
Photo Credit: Jade Masri via Unsplash https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/thisjungianlife/TJL_167-Extraversion.mp3 Although Jung’s theory of typology is the foundation of various personality assessments, it is important to appreciate its profundity as Jung’s theory of...
by Joseph Lee | May 13, 2021 | Core Jungian Concepts
Photo Credit: Benjamin Davies via Unsplash https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/thisjungianlife/TJL_163-Introversion_v2.mp3 The terms introversion and extraversion, now cultural staples, originated with Jung and describe the overall direction of life energy. The widely...
by Joseph Lee | May 6, 2021 | Core Jungian Concepts, Metaphysical
Photo Credit: Marc Oliver Jodoin via Unsplash Erich Neumann publicly proposed the concept of the ego-Self (or Self-ego) axis and began to sketch its implications in his 1952 Eranos lecture, “The Psyche and the Transformation of the Reality Planes. Edward...