by Joseph Lee | Aug 28, 2025 | Core Jungian Concepts
VIDEO AUDIO Holding the tension of the opposites is a deliberate practice of keeping a true inner conflict steadily in awareness until Psyche offers a new form that includes what each side demands. Jung names the inner mechanism that enables this shift the...
by Joseph Lee | Aug 21, 2025 | Core Jungian Concepts
VIDEO AUDIO Imagination has always been one of those things we take for granted, and yet it shapes nearly everything. The moment our ancestors first pictured a tool, or wondered if fire could change the taste of meat, imagination was already at work. Jung insisted it...
by Joseph Lee | Aug 14, 2025 | Archetypal, Core Jungian Concepts
VIDEO AUDIO Solutio is Psyche’s method to facilitate transformation: our rigid ego is softened in symbolic water, allowing outworn attitudes to unbind. We can see this reflected in dreams of oceans and baths, or a wall of our house dissolving. This can show up when we...
by Joseph Lee | Jul 18, 2025 | Archetypal, Core Jungian Concepts
VIDEO AUDIO The calcinatio stage in Jung’s alchemy is about being put through inner fire—it’s when the ego undergoes a kind of burning away of projections, illusions, and inflated ideas about itself. This stage often brings intense suffering, frustration,...
by Joseph Lee | May 8, 2025 | Core Jungian Concepts, Metaphysical
VIDEO AUDIO The religious function is part of who we are — as natural as needing food or love. It’s the inner drive that pushes us to find meaning, to touch something larger than ourselves. Jung saw that if we don’t tend it, it doesn’t go away; it twists itself into...
by Joseph Lee | Apr 24, 2025 | Core Jungian Concepts, Cultural Currents
VIDEO AUDIO Inner guidance is Psyche’s built-in orienting system, a silent interlocutor that Jung named the Self. When the ego listens to that source, life organizes around an inner axis rather than around social noise. The conversation begins in dreams: every night...