The Parental Image as Source and Container of Life Behind the individual part of the psyche, which we speak of as the personal unconscious, with its center, the shadow, there lies a deeper stratum of psychic nature that is common to all human beings. Indeed, it is the common substratum of psychic life, much as… 

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…