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…
From the website Digitalfusion News: The next morning, the Red Book arrived via black sedan among much security. Although the dimensions were well known, it seemed larger and heavier than expected. As it was unwrapped for the first time a hush and reverence filled the room becoming of the historic work. As the Red Book…
The more I think about it, the more I am disturbed that Grace Hanadarko (in Saving Grace, reviewed yesterday) is a member of the police force. If she is in indeed a model of how a woman of the 21st century can be — tough, compassionate, comfortable with her sexuality, more than the equal to…
In Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland, Alice develops her “muchness” and the courage to choose her own path. This comes out of a descent into the Unconscious, i.e., falling down the rabbit hole and dealing with the figures in the Unconscious. Towards the end of the movie, she uses a magical sword to successfully…