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…
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…
Nature is often obscure or impenetrable, but she is not, like man, deceitful. We must therefore take it that the dream is just what it pretends to be, neither more nor less. If it shows something in a negative light, there is no reason for assuming that it is meant positively. “On the Psychology of…
Dreams are impartial, spontaneous products of the unconscious psyche, outside the control of the will. They are pure nature; they show us the unvarnished, natural truth, and are therefore fitted, as nothing else is, to give us back an attitude that accords with our basic human nature when our consciousness has strayed too far from…
The dream is a little hidden door in the innermost and most secret recesses of the soul, opening into that cosmic night which was psyche long before there was any ego consciousness, and which will remain psyche no matter how far our ego-consciousness extends. For all ego-consciousness is isolated; because it separates and discriminates, it…
The internet is full of quotes attributed to Carl Jung. At least this site gives the source (at least the book, though not the page). And the photos add a nice touch. “Wherever an inferiority complex exists, there is a good reason for it.” —Interview, 1943 “The great problems of life—sexuality, of course, among others—are…
Arianna Huffington August 1, 2010 06:11 PM Sarah Palin, “Mama Grizzlies,” Carl Jung, and the Power of Archetypes (excerpt) It is not Palin’s positions people respond to — it’s her use of symbols. Mama grizzlies rearing up to protect their young? That’s straight out of Jung’s “collective unconscious” — the term Jung used to describe…
The 1983 album Synchronicity was inspired by Arthur Koestler’s The Roots of Coincidence , which has substantial material about Jung’s idea of synchronicity.Koestler (1905-1983) wrote numerous essays, novels, and autobiographies. In this later years, he developed Parkinsons disease; he and his wife eventually deliberately overdosed on barbituates and alcohol. The passage below is part of…