by Naomi Adams | 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 Naomi Adams | 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...
by Naomi Adams | Jun 25, 2020 | Core Jungian Concepts, Metaphysical
The transcendent function comes in all sizes, from “aha” moments to epiphanies. A new orientation to a dilemma arrives unthought, recognized, and right. Perhaps there is a moment where loneliness gives way to solitude, or heartbreak yields to a larger...
by Naomi Adams | Jun 8, 2020 | Core Jungian Concepts
Many listeners have expressed interest in Jungian analytic training. We welcome those inquiries and outline the prerequisites, practicalities and processes which lead up to and constitute Jungian analytic training–a life path of ongoing growth, challenge and...
by Naomi Adams | Apr 16, 2020 | Core Jungian Concepts, Personal Issues
The alchemical term nigredo means black or blackening, and is associated with decomposition and putrefaction. As a psychological state, nigredo is “the great suffering and grief” which the detached forces of nature inflict on the soul. We realize in...
by Naomi Adams | Apr 2, 2020 | Core Jungian Concepts, Metaphysical
The archetype of origins is in resurgence since the advent of ancestry-mapping programs. What are the psychological and symbolic meanings of ancestry? Identity is often strongly linked to ancestry in its ethnic and cultural aspects, and as the carrier of personal...