In an earlier post, I reviewed Amy Hardie’s brilliant film documentary, The Edge of Dreaming. One of the comments Ms. Hardie made about the process was that she needed to go back in re-enter the dream, to transform it. Three psychotherapists had been unsuccessful in working with her, and she proceeded to find the help…
In my opinion, many Jungians take the writings of Jung as gospel, and do not take into account the cultural context from which he wrote. His view, for instance, of the anima and the feminine is a bit chauvanistic and confining. This article by Dr. Austin is an excellent review of the cultural context in…
From the website of Maria Taveras, a Jungian analyst and artist Jung also discusses a case in which a snake emerged from the mouth of a woman. After World War I, a 28-year-old woman consulted Jung. She wanted “to be cured within ten hours” – that is, within only ten analytic sessions. The woman told…
Continuing in the amplification of the healing snake in Amy Hardie’s The Edge of Dreaming… (… Snakes on a plane, snakes on a woman, snakes on a stick — snakes everywhere….) The woman with the snake coiled around her looks particularly unhappy; I suspect this picture was not her idea…. More on men’s projection about…
In Amy Hardie’s recent documentary film,The Edge of Dreaming, (reviewed yesterday) she encounters a huge snake that devours her during a shamanic healing. Out of this experience, she recovered from what appeared to be a fatal lung disease. Why the snake? Perhaps the commonest dream symbol of transcendence is the snake, as represented by the…
Scottish filmmaker Amy Hardie’s brilliant ninety-minute documentary film, The Edge of Dreaming , was shown on PBS last night. Ms. Hardie had a vivid premonitory dream that she would die in her 48th year; this greatly focused her attention on what was important in her life and on the reality of dreams. During the course…
Michelle Frantom is an artist, a surfer, an Australian, a blogger. Although her blog is not specifically about Jungian topics, she is well-versed in Jung and writes thoughtful and passionate posts covering a wide variety of topics. She also frequently draws her dreams; there is something quite archetypal about her drawings…. Excerpt for July 17,…
There are several thousand Jungian Analysts; as far as I can tell, Heidi Kolb is the only one who is an active blogger. (Please let me know if you know of others). Her articles have accompanying images (I think the right brain is usually under-emphasized by Jungian authors) and are written in depth…. In the…
Cheryl Fuller, the blogger and Jungian psychotherapist behind Jung-at-Heart, has been posting blogs since February 2007. The posts are often thoughtful writings on the process of psychotherapy, with (obviously) a Jungian orientation. Most blogs in this fast-food-world lack depth of presentation or inquiry; Ms. Fuller’s articles are well-thought through and well-written. Psychoanalysis cannot be considered…