Jungian Diaspora By Thomas B. Kirsch, M.D. The Diaspora had a profound impact on the spread of psychoanalysis to the far corners of the globe. What is not so well known is that the rise of Nazi ism also had a profound effect on the spread of Jung’s psychology. Before we take on that subject, I…
Perhaps this is one reason why the Negro is so often rejected and feared by people of the white race. At the beginning he [Jung] went from eastern Switzerland to Paris (from the east to the west, where the way leads into darkness, the unconsciousness). He has now made a turn of 180″, toward the…
it might explain how “meaningful” adaptations and mutations could happen in less time than that required by entirely random mutations. The fruitfulness of Jung’s ideas is more immediately understandable within the area of the cultural activities of man: Obviously, if the archetypes determine our mental behavior, they must appear in all these fields. But, unexpectedly,…
Number is the most simple, the most primitive instrument of setting order. In this chapter also belongs the role of numbers. We know that eighty percent, if not more, of all mantic or divinatory methods are based on natural numbers. You can, for instance, make a divination by reading the name of a person: you…
The person who commits himself to a life and confront the unknown in the world at large with an open mind with a heart of wisdom. The shadow problem occurs not only within the individual as a conflict between the conscious mode of adaptation and the negative or repressed autonomous aspects of the unconscious. The…