Boris Yeltsin, the first popularly elected President of the Russia Federation, was well known for his predilection for vodka. What was not so well known was that he both an ophiologist – a collector of snakes – and a shrewd manipulator of the foreign currency exchange, where he would regularly bet against the ruble in…
From Wikipedia: In Norse mythology, Jörmungandr (pronounced [ˈjœrmuŋɡandr]), mostly known as Jormungand, or Midgard Serpent, or World Serpent, is a sea serpent, and the middle child of the giantess Angrboða and the god Loki. According to the Prose Edda, Odin took Loki’s three children, Fenrisúlfr, Hel and Jörmungandr, and tossed Jörmungandr into the great ocean…
Do you stay up late trying to figure out anagrams for Carl Gustav Jung? ((By now you must have figured out there is only one English anagram for Carl Jung — “Jar Clung.” I am not sure what the long term implications of this Jungian fact are.)) Your anagram worries are over….
One of my biggest complaints about much of the Jungian material on the Web is that it is un-sourced – it is passed on and on, without a reference to its origins. With the idea that if you can’t beat them, join them, I thought I would contribute my own Jungian statements, that Carl Jung…
Continuing in the Top Ten template mold, here are ten of what I think are the best single sentences that Carl Jung wrote or spoke. Note that none are attributed to a source; this is continuing another trend, of putting quotations out on the Internet without any clue to as to where they came from….
…….I’ve been rich and I’ve been poor. Believe me, rich is better……. (Mae West) Research consistently suggests that Republicans are happier with their lives; this appears to in spite of the fact that they report more nightmares. This would suggest that it is better to repress emotions (a strategy which is more likely to lead…
A substantial number of responses to the satirical piece about Sarah Palin that appeared both in this Jungcurrents blog and the Anchorage Daily News have involved denigrating the writer (“liberal nut job”, “pinhead”, “Drink some more Kool-Aid Doc”). I am beginning to think the need to respond in this way is part the Palin Complex…
As evidenced in the last post on Freud and Jung’s Ill-fated Arctic Expedition, photos these days are not necessarily “real.” However, as Jungian analyst Brian Collison suggested in one of his comments, the imaginal realm is also very real. So herewith are other well-photoshopped images from the site: I would like to imagine they were…