by thisjungian | Nov 15, 2018 | Cultural Currents, Personal Issues
Lisa, Joseph, and Deb circumambulate the difficult issue of gender reassignment. They discuss the significance of teen girls wishing to transition and the current tendency to foreclose the meaning of this and move rapidly into medical procedures, a process of...
by thisjungian | Oct 25, 2018 | Cultural Currents
We consider literalism a normal childhood state – children’s literalism can be funny and charming. We first grow into the ability to understand metaphors and later develop a capacity to conceptualize symbols with various levels of meaning. Later in life...
by thisjungian | Aug 14, 2018 | Cultural Currents
As three analysts, we explore the archetype of “the gun” from a Jungian psychological view and seek to understand it’s influence in the collective psyche of Americans. Guns play a big role in American mythology from the American Revolution to cowboys and...
by thisjungian | Aug 14, 2018 | Cultural Currents
How can we understand the superficial label assigned to masculine behavior in today’s meme-driven style of discourse? Here’s the dream we analyze: “I am walking on what seems to be mountainous hills. A little ahead of me is what feels like my teenage...
by thisjungian | Aug 14, 2018 | Archetypal, Cultural Currents, Metaphysical
Photo Credit: Sander Sammy via Unsplash http://traffic.libsyn.com/thisjungianlife/TJL_009Vampires.mp3 Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Twilight, TrueBlood–Vampires have been an enduring staple of popular entertainment for centuries, captivating audiences with their...
by thisjungian | Aug 14, 2018 | Archetypal, Cultural Currents, Personal Issues
Is alcohol dependence a misplaced expression of a spiritual thirst, or a collapse into a regressed and infantile state? We discuss Jung’s involvement in the establishment of Alcoholics Anonymous. http://traffic.libsyn.com/thisjungianlife/TJL_005Alcoholism.mp3...