It's easy to see how the capitalism of an economy structures the dynamics between people and sociopolitical relationships within a culture, particularly with an emphasis on people and resources in service of production and economic growth, rather than an economy in service of the people. When understood as one of the dynamics driving, not only …
Tag: Possession
“I” is an Aggregate
In this next installment of examining James Hillman's book, Anima, and Anatomy of a Personified Notion, we look at the notion of Ego, and especially its relation to Jung's idea of the Conscious, as he understood these terms. Ego, as an idea, concept or definition, has been with us for a very long time and has a …
Anima, Soul, Psyche
Being that has soul is living being. Soul is the living thing in man, that which lives of itself and causes life.... With her cunning play of illusions the soul lures into life the inertness of matter that does not want to live. She makes us believe incredible things, that life may be lived. She …
I-Me-Mine
Is it the fear of what is other, the initial recognition of duality, that tempt us further into categorizations of duality? Is individuality, that necessary movement for freedom of action, what fosters a battle stance, a duality initiating all future duels? Perhaps fear of the other culminates, as Jung suggested, in a reduction of the gods to diseases, …