by Naomi Adams | Sep 12, 2019 | Core Jungian Concepts, Relationships
Anima and animus function as autonomous contrasexual archetypes that guide ego into the depths of Psyche, unlocking creativity, feeling, empathy, and spiritual insight when integrated, yet triggering seduction, aggression, or control when projected or repressed. These...
by Naomi Adams | Sep 5, 2019 | Core Jungian Concepts, Relationships
Healing a Negative Mother Complex As the mother is the generator of life and usual primary attachment figure, the mother complex is universal. As the image of a “personified affect” fueled by an archetypal core, the mother complex is especially...
by Naomi Adams | Aug 15, 2019 | Core Jungian Concepts, Personal Issues
If the passage into fullsome adulthood is avoided, a person can be trapped in the world of childhood. This protected realm is a nexus of potential, defined by avoiding the rigors of the real for the pleasures of possibility. Peter Pan, who chose to remain in...
by Naomi Adams | Jun 20, 2019 | Core Jungian Concepts
Although the word voyage connotes a sea journey, this episode considers a voyage to be an intentional trip of any kind. A voyage can range from a vacation in Vegas to a pilgrimage to a sacred site. Such journeys may be solitary, or, like the famed pilgrimage in The...
by Naomi Adams | May 30, 2019 | Core Jungian Concepts
Individuation is the empirical process by which personality orders itself around the Self, the inner center that embraces conscious and unconscious. It proceeds through images, affects, and decisions that gather a scattered life into pattern. Energy (libido)...
by Naomi Adams | Apr 25, 2019 | Core Jungian Concepts
This episode, inspired by the new album by the Korean band BTS, explains and amplifies the Jungian concept of the persona. Like the cornea of the eye, persona both shields us and makes opening up to the world possible. In ancient Greek theater, the actors wore masks...