Archive for January, 2008
Sunday, January 27th, 2008
Inner Summits
The chapter 'Modern Psychology Offers a Possibility of Understanding' is a compressed enunciation of the fundamental problems facing human beings psychically. However, Jung's treatment of the nature of the problem, its reality and scope is quite brief. Nonetheless, he does give the primary method for solving the ...
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Saturday, January 26th, 2008
Kindly Bent To Ease Us
Carl Jung was convinced solutions to our most difficult conscious problems can arise from our unconscious. He based his assertions on numerous witnessings of the power of the unconscious to act upon the individual’s psyche. Not only was he convinced of this but clearly shows us ...
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Sunday, January 20th, 2008
At the Altar of the Unconscious
s13. “The wise Chinese would say in the words of the I Ching: When yang has reached its greatest strength, the dark power of yin is born within its depths, for night begins at midday when yang breaks up and begins to change into yin.” ...
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Sunday, January 13th, 2008
Affine Evolution of the Libido
s12. “In purely psychological terms this means that mankind has common instincts of ideation and action. All conscious ideation and action have developed on the basis of these unconscious archetypal patterns and always remain dependent on them.”
Considering the question of the common origins ...
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