Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud in the Comics
For approximately the last three weeks, this blog has been trying to view the Jared Loughner case in a Jungian context. Although there is still much to try to understand, it is also time to move on to other topics. To give equal time to the lighter side of life, for a while this blog…
Jung: The supreme danger which threatens individuals as well as whole nations is a psychic danger….
Indeed, it is becoming ever more obvious that it is not famine, not earthquakes, not microbes, not cancer but man himself who is man’s greatest danger to man, for the simple reason that there is no adequate protection against psychic epidemics, which are infinitely more devastating than the worst of natural catastrophes. The supreme danger…
Carl Jung: Ten Quotations about Dreams
From the Red Book (The Axeman Cometh?) The conscious mind allows itself to be trained like a parrot, but the unconscious does not—which is why St. Augustine thanked God for not making him responsible for his dreams. Psychology and Alchemy, 1953 I leave theory aside as much as possible when analyzing dreams-not entirely, of course,…
Featured Comments: Jungian Views of the Loughner Case
One of the problems in living in this media-dominated culture is that the “mainstream media” (and this includes the “liberal” and “conservative” media) is so collective and so at odds with a psychological and Jungian viewpoint. The Internet can help one feel less isolated because one’s viewpoint is different than “normal”. I think that the…
Jung: “When a situation is not made conscious, it happens outside, as fate.”
The psychological rule says that when an inner situation is not made conscious, it happens outside, as fate. That is to say, when the individual remains undivided and does not become conscious of his inner opposite, the world must perforce act out the conflict and be torn into opposing halves. Collected Words 9ii Christ, A…
Experiencing the Numinous
Image: From The Red Book (partial image) Jung, Collected Works 7, Page 6 Jung, Collected Works , 14, p. 778 C. G. Jungian Society of Vermont Jung and Numinosum Sue Mehrtens Numen is a Latin word, deriving from the verb nuere, meaning “to nod.” Its original meaning was “a nod.” You might well wonder how…
The Dreams of Jared Loughner: “The Golden Evidence”
from Collected Works Of C G Jung,Volume 3, “The Psychogenesis Of Mental Disease” [Tierney] also describes Loughner as being obsessed with “lucid dreaming”—that is, the idea that conscious dreams are an alternative reality that a person can inhabit and control—and says Loughner became “more interested in this world than our reality.” Tierney adds, “I saw…