by Joseph Lee | Aug 19, 2021 | Core Jungian Concepts, Personal Issues, Relationships, Therapy Related
Photo Credit: via Pixabay https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/thisjungianlife/TJL_177-Splitting.mp3 We seem hard-wired to split the world into polarities: right/wrong, either/or, victory/defeat, Democrat/Republican. Infants and toddlers have not yet achieved the...
by Joseph Lee | Aug 12, 2021 | Core Jungian Concepts
Photo Credit: Gera Juarez https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/thisjungianlife/TJL_176-Wounded.mp3 There are three major models of healing: medical, shamanic, and psychoanalytic. In the first, the doctor does it to you; in the second, the intermediary does it for you;...
by Joseph Lee | Jul 22, 2021 | Core Jungian Concepts, Metaphysical
Photo Credit: Benjamin Davies via Unsplash In Answer to Job, Jung states, “Whoever knows God has an effect on him.” If, as Jung claims, individual human consciousness affects God, what we are matters monumentally. When we serve our neuroses, the gulf between ego and...
by Joseph Lee | Jul 15, 2021 | Core Jungian Concepts
Although the concept of archetypes has philosophical ancestors, Jung’s theory was developed over time and rested on a foundation that was scientific and empirical. Research and experiment enabled Jung to establish the autonomous activity of the unconscious. He was...
by Joseph Lee | Jun 24, 2021 | Core Jungian Concepts
Photo Credit: Joseph Lee https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/thisjungianlife/TJL_169-Thresholds.mp3 In medieval times, the threshold was a plank that kept barnyard “threshings” outside the house. In the sciences, a threshold is the limit of magnitude or intensity that...
by Joseph Lee | Jun 10, 2021 | Core Jungian Concepts
Photo Credit: Jade Masri via Unsplash https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/thisjungianlife/TJL_167-Extraversion.mp3 Although Jung’s theory of typology is the foundation of various personality assessments, it is important to appreciate its profundity as Jung’s theory of...