by Joseph Lee | Apr 27, 2023 | Cultural Currents, Personal Issues
https://traffic.libsyn.com/thisjungianlife/TJL_263-Dark-Triad-v2.mp3 Understanding the Dark Triad can help us navigate mysteriously troubled relationships in all spheres of life. Psychologists coined the term to describe a trifecta of malevolent personality traits:...
by Naomi Adams | Dec 13, 2018 | Core Jungian Concepts, Personal Issues
The myth of Narcissus constitutes the archetypal root of the character structure of narcissism. Aspects of narcissism run from the healthy developmental narcissism of a child to the toxic narcissism of the psychopath, but all have in common a lack of empathy, whether...
by Naomi Adams | Oct 18, 2018 | Relationships
Envy is a painful symptom of disconnection from the Self. We relate envy and jealousy to early developmental dynamics, with envy related to the dyad of mother-and-baby and jealousy arriving a later, when the child realizes that sometimes he is left out of his parent’s...