The Jungian infant Is there a valid theoretical construct to describe an infant from a Jungian perspective? I have been attempting to answer this question since 1982 when I started teaching infant observation seminars at the Society of Analytical Psychology in London. These seminars became an integral part of the Child Analytic Training Program. We… 

The Bad Mother: An Archetypal Approach by James Hillman I. What follows takes up again a well-worn theme: mother and child. The mother archetype, the child archetype-depth psychology founds itself, and founders, usually, on these rocks. That life and depth psychology begin with mother and child says that we are in the rhetoric of beginnings,… 

Taoism and Jung: Synchronicity and the Self In my book Jung and Eastern Thought, I explored the influence of Indian concepts such as karma, citta, buddhi tattva tapas, and mandala on the development of Carl Jung’s notions of “archetype,” “psyche,” the “collective unconscious,” “active imagination,” and “circumambulation.” But the question of Eastern influence on Jung’s… 

Emanuel Swedenborg, Heaven and its Wonders and Hell The Resuscitation of Man from the Dead and His Entrance into Eternal Life When the body is no longer able to perform the bodily functions in the natural world that correspond to the spirit’s thoughts and affections, which the spirit has from the spiritual world, man is…