I’ve heard many people echo the sentiment that this holiday season hasn’t felt relaxing, or even slowed down. Many of us are still grinding, trying to get ahead of the new year and finish the never ending list of to-do’s for 2022. Just making the holidays happen is an incredibly…
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Pan and the forest dark
A three part series. Jung once observed that “The gods have become diseases; Zeus no longer rules Olympus but rather the solar plexus and produces curious specimens for the doctor’s consulting room” (CW 13; §54). This is an idea that vexed me when I first heard it. But we are…
Undressing Libido
What comes to mind when you read the term libido? Oh, come on, don’t be bashful. You know you are thinking that libido is the way we speak about psychic energy that is directed between the polarity of opposites: inner/outer, up/down, full/empty, and so on. Wait, you had something else in…
