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Core Jungian Concepts
Episode 22 – Pressure to Conform and Differentiation

Episode 22 – Pressure to Conform and Differentiation

The pressure to conform to familial and cultural values provides guidelines for each new generation – and can also stifle the uniqueness necessary not only to the individual but to family and cultural health.

Episode 13 – Active Imagination

Episode 13 – Active Imagination

Jung pioneered the technique of active imagination, a process by which the ego engages with imagery and content generated by the unconscious.

SYNCHRONICITY & CARL JUNG: The Mysterious Web of Numinous Coincidences

SYNCHRONICITY & CARL JUNG: The Mysterious Web of Numinous Coincidences

Synchronicity is a concept that has fascinated thinkers across disciplines for decades, and few have delved as deeply into its nature and implications as the Swiss psychologist Carl Jung. According to Jung, synchronicity refers to meaningful coincidences that defy rational explanation, but that feel infused with a sense of significance or destiny. But how do we recognize such coincidences, and what role do they play in our lives and psyches?

HEARING VOICES: when our complexes begin to speak

HEARING VOICES: when our complexes begin to speak

The standard psychiatric understanding of auditory hallucinations is that they are a symptom of serious mental illness, and ought to be treated with antipsychotic medication, but could there other ways of understanding this phenomenon?