“…the tensions between the psychic pairs of opposites are eased only gradually; and like the alchemical end-product, which always betrays its essential duality, the unified personality never quite loses the painful sense of innate discordance. Complete redemption from the sufferings of this world is and must remain an illusion. Christ’s earthly life likewise ended not […]
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And the paradox of divergence among their followers In psychotherapy, there exists an intriguing phenomenon. It refers to the observation that the founders of the great therapeutic schools — Freud, Jung, Rogers, Perls, Frankl, and others — despite having created theories that clearly distinguish them from one another, share at their core remarkably similar views […]
by Kameliya Hadzhiyska I have already written an article about ‘the third kind of suffering.’ Now it is time to write about ‘the third kind of desire,’ because these two — suffering and desire — are deeply interconnected. More precisely, the draft of this article has been ripening for a long time, as it belongs […]
Understanding the energetic nature of our emotional life This article was originally published on my other website, on the “Introduction” page of the 29-Day Program. Due to a reorganization in how the content is presented, I am now republishing it here. In it, you will read about the most essential insight that inspired me to […]
02.04.2025
The Archetype of the Trickster
Jung on the psychology of the trickster “Wow, that’s typical Trickster behavior!” I thought when I saw Trump’s brazen lie, “Did I say that? I don’t remember,” hidden behind a sly smile. That’s why I want to share a bit more about this archetype, which is one of the faces of the Shadow—when this Shadow […]
Below is an excerpt from C. G. Jung’s autobiographical work Memories, Dreams, Reflections, from the chapter “Confrontation with the Unconscious,” in which he describes a vision lasting about an hour, as well as a recurring dream. Both proved to be early premonitions of the events that unfolded a year later with the outbreak of the […]
In an interview with Marie Louise von Franz in November 1990, Hein Stufkens asked her about the place of individuation in love relationships. Below is her answer: H.S.: What is the place of individuation in a love relationship? v.Fr.: In a love relation, as Jung once put it, you risk everything. You put yourself on […]
09.02.2025
The elephant you’ve never seen
“An elephant from a travelling exhibit was kept hidden in a barn outside the walls of a city whose inhabitants had never seen an elephant before. Hearing of this concealed marvel, four curious citizens went to see whether they might gain at least some preliminary idea of what an elephant was like. When they arrived […]
07.01.2025
Gardening in good and bad times
There is a significant difference between neurotic suffering caused by an inauthentic way of life and suffering caused by processes of spiritual awakening.
If you have difficulty being taken seriously by others and feel that you do not carry sufficient authority in their eyes, this thought by Marie-Louise von Franz is for you: “People who have integrated a large part of their own darkness possess an invisible authority, as if they had acquired weight and power, and others […]
03.12.2024
The relationship between the conscious and the unconscious is both open conflict and cooperation
“But if we understand anything of the unconscious, we know that it cannot be swallowed. We also know that it is dangerous to suppress it, because the unconscious is life and this life turns against us if suppressed, as happens in neurosis. Conscious and unconscious do not make a whole when one of them is […]
“But I only achieve the feeling of limitlessness when I am extremely limited. Man’s greatest limitation is that ‘self’ which manifests itself in the experience of ‘I am only this’. Only consciousness of our narrow confinement in the self forms the link to the limitlessness of the unconscious. In such awareness we experience ourselves concurrently […]
