by Naomi Adams | Apr 16, 2020 | Core Jungian Concepts, Personal Issues
The alchemical term nigredo means black or blackening, and is associated with decomposition and putrefaction. As a psychological state, nigredo is “the great suffering and grief” which the detached forces of nature inflict on the soul. We realize in...
by Naomi Adams | Apr 2, 2020 | Core Jungian Concepts, Metaphysical
The archetype of origins is in resurgence since the advent of ancestry-mapping programs. What are the psychological and symbolic meanings of ancestry? Identity is often strongly linked to ancestry in its ethnic and cultural aspects, and as the carrier of personal...
by Naomi Adams | Mar 12, 2020 | Core Jungian Concepts, Metaphysical
Questions about fate and destiny have existed for millennia. Fate often refers to unalterable realities, from genes to future events, whereas destiny points to future potential. An acorn’s likely fate is to die on the forest floor, but its destiny is to become...
by Naomi Adams | Feb 20, 2020 | Core Jungian Concepts
The power of projections to hit psychic targets serves both defensive and integrative functions. Projections are a natural aspect of psychic functioning, as we know from watching children at play: we first see inner images “out there” in order to...
by Naomi Adams | Feb 6, 2020 | Core Jungian Concepts, Personal Issues
Photo Credit: Nick Fewings via Unsplash https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/thisjungianlife/TJL_097-Redemption-d.mp3 As we grow, unconscious unity becomes differentiated into feeling, ego, personality and desire. As we grow, we will have initiatory encounters with...
by Naomi Adams | Jan 23, 2020 | Core Jungian Concepts, Personal Issues
When we speak of being triggered, what exactly is it that sends us into a familiar arc of feeling and behavior we may later regret? That mysterious force seems external and can elude our ability to locate it within. Jung called these autonomous and unconscious...