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Tag: archetypes

12.10.26 | Hymn to Hermes | Free Reading Discussion

The Homeric Hymns have survived for two and a half millennia because of their captivating stories, beautiful language, and religious significance. Well before the advent of writing in Greece, they were performed by traveling bards at religious events, competitions, banquets, and festivals. These poems invoking and celebrating the gods of ancient Greece raise questions that […]

11.12.26 | The Scapegoat Complex | Free Reading Discussion

The term scapegoat is applied to individuals and groups who are accused of causing misfortune. Scapegoating means finding those who can be identified with evil, blamed for it, and cast out from the family or the community in order to leave the remaining members with a feeling of guiltlessness. Psychologically, scapegoating is a form of […]

10.1.26 | Volodymyr Walter Odajnyk: Jung and Politics | Free Reading Discussion

Jung never wrote a treatise that systematically defines the implications of his psychological theories for politics. His views on the subject are dispersed throughout his works, although a number of books and essays are closely concerned with politics, either explicitly or by implication and logical extension. Hence, this book represents a compilation of those of […]

9.3.26 | C.G. Jung: Paracelsus the Physician (CW 15) | Free Reading Discussion

Concluding a lecture titled Paracelsus al Arzt, delivered to the Swiss Society for the History of Medicine and the Natural Sciences on September 7th 1941, Jung concludes, ” I shall be content if I have succeeded in giving you at least a few impressions of the strange personality and the spiritual force of the celebrated […]

8.6.26 | Aniela Jaffé : Symbolism in the Visual Arts | Free Reading Discussion

Man and His Symbols was intended to serve as an introduction to Jung’s work and ideas. It is an examination of man’s relation to the unconscious, emphasizing the importance of dreams in the life of the individual. The last year of Jung’s life was devoted almost entirely to this book, which he finished just 10 […]

6.4.26 | Jorge Luis Borges: The God’s Script | Free Reading Discussion

“The God’s Script,” sometimes translated under the title “The Writing of the God,” is a 1949 short story by the Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986). The story concerns a Mayan priest who is imprisoned with a jaguar; the priest comes to realize that his god has hidden magic writing within the jaguar’s skin. “The […]

5.7.26 | Thomas Singer, MD | A Field Guide to American Cultural Complexes: The Battleground of the Splintered American Psyche | Free Reading Discussion

Many Americans today feel overwhelmed and overburdened by the relentless flood of conflicting narratives surging through society. Every headline, opinion page, or dinner-table discussion seems to throb with urgency, distortion, and division. The more implausible the story, the more powerfully it grips the psyche. We are living in a crazy-making environment. Here is an unsettling […]

4.2.26 | Marie-Louise von Franz | C.G. Jung’s Rehabilitation of the Feeling Function in Our Civilization | Free Reading Discussion

This is the provocative, final lecture given in 1986 by Marie-Louise von Franz, a lifelong colleague of C. G. Jung and an accomplished scholar, teacher, analyst, and author. Her theme is Jung’s critique of twentieth century western culture for overvaluing the scientific method and rationalism at the expense of empathy and differentiated relatedness. She argues […]