Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961) was a disciple of Sigmund Freud, who in the middle of the second decade of the last century withdrew from him due to a fundamental theoretical dispute. Jung established an independent current in psychoanalysis – analytical…
This article is based on the lecture offered at the “Conference on Values in Analytical Psychology”, Strasbourg, June 2024 The tension between science and knowledge on one hand, and values on the other, is as ancient as medicine, the art…
For analytic psychology, the symbolic function is a spontaneous function of the psyche and indicates a certain state of health of the psyche, Between the two levels of our psychic life, the conscious and the unconscious, there is a continuous…
Read here Active Imagination. Transforming fantasy into awareness (1) Step 3. Ethical Attitude (Values) In Active Imagination, this step of values and ethics is a very important one. Guided by ethics, the Ego protects the imaginative process in order to…
In dream work we are trying to decode the meaning of the message sent by the unconscious to the Ego. But how can we go the other way around – going consciously to aspects of the unconscious? The language of…
Who are you?” said the Caterpillar. This was not an encouraging opening for a conversation. Alice replied, rather shyly, “I—I hardly know, Sir, just at present—at least I know who I was when I got up this morning, but I think I must…
“Any object, intensely regarded, may be a gate of access to the incorruptible eon of the gods” James Joyce If in the first article we looked at the symbol of the gate through an analytical magnifying glass, in this article…