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 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 thisjungian | May 21, 2020 | Personal Issues
Jung was particularly interested in the second half of life, perhaps because after his own midlife crisis he found himself so surprisingly generative. We tend to spend the first half of life oriented to familial values and cultural norms for success. Education,...
by thisjungian | Apr 23, 2020 | Cultural Currents, Personal Issues
The dictionary defines authority as the power to “influence or command thought, opinion or behavior.” Authority’s Latin roots are master, leader, author—thus it lives next to its tough cousin, power. Families, organizations, and governing bodies...
by thisjungian | 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...
