Active Imagination
Active imagination is a practice developed by Jung when he was engaged in his auseinandersetzung with the unconscious following the abrupt and brutal end of his relationship with Freud....
View ArticleHappiness
Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness. In the felicitous words of Thomas Jefferson, the pursuit of happiness, not the pursuit of success, is set out as a core founding value of the United States...
View ArticleFairy tales
Albert Einstein once quipped: “If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.” The same advice applies even...
View ArticleThe Importance of Follow-Up
Follow-up, as the term implies, means collecting information or data about patients or making contact with them after the treatment or the research has been concluded. Just what is treatment and what...
View ArticleEmpathy
Empathy on the part of the therapist or analyst lies at the heart of the therapeutic or analytic process. Along with providing a temenos, or safe and sacred environment for the therapy or analysis to...
View ArticleInteraction
Here is one of Jung’s diagrams of the interaction between the analyst and the analysand, which will help us to understand empathy from a Jungian perspective: There are conscious and unconscious...
View ArticleA Serious Man: Interpretation as a Fairy Tale
The first time I saw the Coen Brothers film A Serious Man, shortly after it debuted in 2009, I was deeply moved by the opening vignette: a snowy scene in an East European shtetl involving a husband and...
View ArticleJung’s Diagram of the Analytical Relationship
The Wounded Healer archetype, as emblemized by Chiron, provides the basis for Jung’s diagram. Chiron, a centaur who suffered a profound wound that would not heal completely, served as a great healer in...
View ArticleThe Ego – Self Axis
The discussion about Jung’s Diagram and shadow work presupposes an ego complex that is strong enough to withstand what could feel like moral criticism without the patient becoming demoralized or...
View ArticlePreparing for Death as the Capstone of the Individuation Process
A capstone is the top stone of a structure or wall, or the crowning achievement or final stroke. Here is a primal example of a capstone, the last dream that C.G. Jung was able to communicate to his...
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