The Psychology of Creativity
Not the artist alone, but every creative individual whatsoever owes all that is greatest in his life to fantasy. The dynamic principle of fantasy is play, a characteristic also of…
The Psychology of the Restless Wanderer
The archetype of the Wanderer appears as a figure of profound loneliness, who drifts through life without a fixed home or direction, restless in the search for purpose and belonging.…
The Fool Dances with Death
The Danse Macabre (or Dance of Death) is a late medieval motif that illustrates the universality of death. The constant famines, wars, and especially the Black Death in Europe showed…
The Buddhabrot: The God-Image of the Universe
There seems to be an ancient blueprint hidden in all things. A memory of wholeness. The unity that existed before the world inevitably fractured into duality. This post is a…
The Psychology of Sin
“I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do. And if I do what I do…
The Psychology of God’s Dark Side
“I have landed the great whale; I mean Answer to Job. I can’t say I have fully digested this tour de force of the unconscious. It still goes on rumbling…
One Million Subscribers – A Reflection
We have reached ONE MILLION subscribers! It feels utterly surreal. I have spent a few days reflecting on this achievement, and searching for the right words to express my gratitude.…
The Psychology of Knowing Yourself
Carl Jung published his book Psychological Types in 1921, introducing four functions of consciousness: thinking, feeling, sensation and intuition, and the two attitudes through which these four functions are deployed:…
Carl Jung: A Journey into the Depths of the Soul
“My life is a story of the self-realisation of the unconscious. Everything in the unconscious seeks outward manifestation, and the personality too desires to evolve out of its unconscious conditions…
The Psychology of Immature Femininity
In a previous post, we explored the masculine archetypes, looking at both their positive, integrated or mature aspects and negative, shadow, or immature sides. Now, we’ll take a look at…
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