Perhaps we moderns no longer see ourselves as living under the influence of myths or belief systems. Whatever their source, they no longer serve us because any belief we subscribe to does not necessarily come to us through the culture of our familiars. More than any other period in history, we have become fractionalized as …
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Alchemical Psychology – the Introduction
In my previous posts on James Hillman's book, Alchemical Psychology, I wrote briefly about the relationship between the colors of the alchemy and their correlation through the stages of the soul's journey as one begins a work of a psychological nature. The links to those posts can be found on the Index page of this blog. After …
Archetypal Psychology – a Brief Account, Part II
In part II of this exploration of James Hillman's book, Archetypal Psychology, a Brief Account, I want to write more specifically about the nature of images within the context of Archetypal Psychology. You can read Part I of the series here. "Archetypal psychology axiomatically assumes imagistic universals, com- parable to the universali fantastici of Vico (Scienza Nuova, …
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Our Lady of the Well
"Language is originally and essentially nothing but a system of signs or symbols, which denote real occurrences, or their echo in the human soul." Carl Jung, Psychology of the Unconscious In the midst of reading Jung's Red Book, the idea of words and language and their relationship to the underlying wordless reality has begun to haunt me. …
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