“The dream is a living thing, by no means a dead thing that rustles like dry paper. It is a living situation; it is like an animal with feelers or with many umbilical cords.” C. G. Jung “I had the weirdest dream last night.” How often have we said…
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Prison or Paradise? Introverts, Extroverts and Social Distancing
Today we use the terms introvert and extrovert in everyday conversation, but C. G. Jung was the first to explore these two fundamental ways of interacting with the world in a psychological context. In his book Psychological Types, published in 1921, he looks at the history of our attempts to…
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…
