Jane Campion and the Anima and Animus By Puddi Kullberg
When I first started reading Jung, I would go through his lengthy descriptions of the anima, and then look, in vain, for what he said about the animus. Inevitably, it was something like, “the animus...
View ArticleThe Heart as a Vehicle to the Self and the Unus Mundus by Deborah Bryon, Ph.D.
In Peruvian shamanism, “the heart” – as an expression of connection with Pachamama (the Great Mother – Mother Earth)- is the hub of connectivity in the body and the vehicle through which connection and...
View Article“Integrity and the Pursuit of the Numinous” by Puddi Kullberg
The documentaries Bill Cunningham New York (2010) and Birders: The Central Park Effect (2012) tell the stories of two New Yorkers who epitomize a certain kind of pursuit of the numinous. Bill...
View ArticleFlooding, riverbeds and Archetypes By Stephen Foster, Jungian Analyst
Archetypes are like riverbeds which dry up when the water deserts them, but which it can find again at any time. An archetype is like an old watercourse along which the water of life has flowed for...
View ArticleExile and Individuation by Stephen Foster, Ph.D.
In general, it is the process of forming and specializing the individual nature; in particular, it is the development of the psychological individual as a differentiated being from the general...
View ArticleCreative Instinct and Individuation by Nora Swan-Foster, Art Therapist and...
Nora Swan-Foster © 2011 The Swiss Jungian Analyst Elizabeth Ruf said the following in her lecture on “Patterns of Sacrifice and Initiation”: “The creative challenge of our time is to take our own path...
View ArticleThe Subjective Experience of Time by Deborah Bryon Ph.D.
Time is experienced differently depending upon the subjective psychological state of the person having the experience. The use of language can offer the framework to understand time as a linear,...
View ArticleWomen’s Voices by Puddi Kullberg, Jungian Analyst
In Praise of When Women Were Birds: Fifty-Four Variations on Voice (2012) by Terry Tempest Williams Women’s Voices I am now 67 years old. The summer of my 16th year I sat on the dock at Lake...
View ArticleSnakes as Symbols of Transformation by Deborah Bryon Ph.D., Jungian Analyst
References to snakes and serpents as a universal symbol of transformation are found throughout mythology across the world. As a student of Jung, I have found references in his writings to snakes which...
View ArticleBrothers by Puddi Kullberg, Jungian Analyst
As a lover of the movie The Hours, based on the book of the same name by Michael Cunningham, I was interested to see the review of his new book in the on-line NYT’s Arts section this morning. The...
View Article1Q84: Reflection on a Story about the Search for the Other by Stephen Foster,...
Don’t you just hate it when you finish a really good book? I found myself drawn so deeply in the world of 1Q84, created by Haruki Murakami, that for a short while I was outside of time. I was so...
View ArticleWhen Things Turn Dark
A Book Review by Stephen Foster, Ph.D., Jungian Analyst Forget heroin. Just try giving up irony, that deep-down need to mean two things at once, to be in two places at once, not to be there for the...
View ArticleBack to the Future: Moving From Hercules to Hermes
By Doug Tyler, Ph.D. Jungian Analyst Consciously exploring our lives more deeply and meaningfully is an idea all of us who share an interest in Jung value. But our agreement around this idea makes the...
View ArticleCreativity and the Wilderness
The Call to Create by Linda Leonard, Jungian Analyst ( Photo taken in the Aspen area 2015) “Before I began to write this book, I had the following dream: I was in the wilderness. Suddenly twenty-five...
View ArticleSplendor Solis–summer alchemy intensive
The first Boulder Association of Jungian Analysts (BAJA) Boulder Jung Seminar Summer Intensive on Alchemy was held at Boulder’s Hyatt Place over the weekend of June 24-26, 2016, on the beautiful and...
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