by Lisa Marchiano | Sep 10, 2020 | Core Jungian Concepts, Metaphysical
We all have intuitive experiences, from an occasional hunch to powerful gut feelings. Unconscious intelligence is a storehouse of instincts and wisdom humankind has accumulated over millennia. We would be lost without intuition and give importance to warnings and...
by Lisa Marchiano | Aug 20, 2020 | Core Jungian Concepts, Personal Issues
The provisional life might be defined as a vague malaise: current relationships, work, and lifestyle feel like placeholders until the ‘real thing’ arrives—someday. If early life circumstances made over-conforming to others’ needs and expectations necessary, persona...
by Lisa Marchiano | Aug 7, 2020 | Core Jungian Concepts
https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/thisjungianlife/TJL_123-Hero-d.mp3 The hero’s journey has been the stuff of story from earliest times. Today’s popular heroes include Harry Potter, Frodo, Spiderman, Neo, and Luke Skywalker. They are all ordinary guys who suddenly...
by thisjungian | Jul 16, 2020 | Core Jungian Concepts, Personal Issues
The root of create, “to bring something into being out of nothing,” echoes divine creation. Ideas arise from mysterious sources, yet creativity is such an intrinsically human function that Jung considered it one of five human instincts, together with...
by thisjungian | Jul 9, 2020 | Core Jungian Concepts, Metaphysical
The religious instinct is as basic as the need for food or shelter. Psyche seeks and selects a central, organizing life principle whether consciously or unconsciously chosen. Secular deities range from food, money, or even science, to the gods of addiction; false...
by thisjungian | Jul 2, 2020 | Core Jungian Concepts, Personal Issues, Therapy Related
Jung discovered the psyche’s dissociative nature through his Word Association Test. Subjects would delay or make nonsensical responses to ordinary words associated with troublesome personal memories or traumas. Dissociation, our autonomous psychic...