C.G. Jung Center

The Tension of the Opposites

by Paul Levy

http://newconnexion.net/articles/index.cfm/1999/05/tension.html

C. G. Jung articulated very eloquently the archetypal descent into the unconscious. He realized that when you go into the psyche you are invariably going to meet "the problem of the opposites." This is that double-bind that is at the root of our self-consciousness. To quote…

"The first duty of the ethically-minded person is, from Jung's psychological perspective, to become as conscious as possible of his or her own shadow. The shadow is made up of the personality's tendencies, motives, and traits that a person considers shameful for one reason or another and seeks to suppress or actually represses unconsciously. If they are repressed, they are unconscious and are projected into others. When this happens, there is usually strong moral indignation and the…

Melville's Vision of Evil by Steven Herrmann

Excerpt:

Fire is an image that has often been associated with wanton destruction, as in Hitler's slaughter of seven million Jews in the fiery gas-ovens of Germany or Japan's bombing of Pearl Harbor during WWII. In more recent times, we have seen Ahabian "dictatorship" (that Jungian analyst James Kirsch outlined)(100) in Saddam…

10/12/2012

The Huffington Post featured an interview today with Murray Stein, worth reading: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/pythia-peay/american-psyche_b_1922820.html

Stein analyzes the American political system from a depth psychological perspective, to explore some of the issues behind the splintered society.  

"America is a very extraverted country; for a young,…