The Life, Work and Legacy of Carl Jung
It is something divine, a spark of the divinity in him, not his own possession or achievement, but a miracle. In another verse in the same poem the creator is called the carpenter. One of the most familiar forms for us, because in our medieval art he is generally represented in this way, is the … Read more
The unconscious body, and certainly the conscious body, will not tolerate the negative mother The women I have worked with, and those I have in mind in this book, are conscious enough to make the distinction between appearance and reality. They are grappling with their ambivalent feelings having been in analysis from one to three years. … Read more
It takes great courage to break with one’s past history and stand alone. Food and alcohol hold an overwhelming fascination for a vast majority in our society, and it may well be that the numinosity of food and drink reflects the central crisis in our 20th-century culture: the crisis in faith. We live in a … Read more
If she isn’t projecting them onto her “loved ones,” she is turning them against herself. Living by principles is not living your own life. It is easier to try to be better than you are than to be who you are. If you are trying to live by ideals, you are constantly plagued by a … Read more