Carl Jung: Thirteen Quotations on the Shadow
For quotations on the Shadow, click on link below to go to the Jungian Times:
The Shadow, Politics and the Psyche
In my opinion, the most important and useful concept in Jungian psychology is that of the “Shadow”, — the unrecognized, un-integrated darker aspects of one’s personality, and the consequent projection of the shadow onto others. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is the classic example of a split off shadow “evil” personality from the “good” personality….
Caput Corvi
One of the Nigredo images from alchemy is the “Caput Corvi.” Somehow the phrase Caput Corvi makes me laugh. (Literally, it means “Decapitation of the Crow.” That doesn’t sound so funny, actually. Let’s stick with the Latin.) Out of all these serious works on the stages alchemy, I have yet to come across the the…
Nigredo: “Blacker than the Blackest Black”
(Continuing on the theme that “The way out is through“, that depression after a trauma is not something that can be easily denied or medicated away…) Ravens from Heart Attack and Soul On the mythological level, nigredo signifies the difficulties man has to overcome on his journey through the underworld. Nigredo is sometimes called…
Toni Wolff and Carl Jung
For a number of years, I thought less of Jung because he had so many (alleged) extra-marital relationships, including relationships with his clients. However, if this is what it took for him to individuate as he did and to provide us with such profound insights into the nature of the psyche, then so be it….
..”they were both into Jung…”
The Red Book was part of the plot of Law and Order on June 9, 2010: Excerpt from the plot line of Children of the Lost Blood: A Goth-looking college student, Sarah Price, is found dead in her bed after a night of partying with a guy. Later, with Detectives Zach Nichols (Jeff Goldblum) and…
Jung Quote: “A mother-complex is not got rid of by blindly reducing the mother to human proportions.”
A mother-complex is not got rid of by blindly reducing the mother to human proportions. Besides that we run the risk of dissolving the experience “Mother” into atoms, thus destroying something supremely valuable and throwing away the golden key which a good fairy laid in our cradle. That is why mankind has always instinctively…
Jung Quote: Mothers
The more remote and unreal the personal mother is, the more deeply will the son’s yearning for her clutch at his soul, awakening that primordial and eternal image of the mother for whose sake everything that embraces, protects, nourishes, and helps assumes maternal form, from the Alma Mater of the university to the personification of…
Movie Reviews: Inception
One of the wonderful aspects of Inception is that it takes dreams seriously, enough so that they provide the main architecture of the film. It also very intellectually complex, asking for the viewer to think on many levels about the nature of reality. Unfortunately, director Chris Nolan filled the movie with too many chase scenes,…