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A Perfect World

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Last Updated: Sunday, 27 October 2013 20:37
Written by Donald Williams
As a psychotherapist I see everyday how difficult it is for people to talk to each other. Clear talking and respectful listening are difficult skills for most of us to master. A PERFECT WORLD draws its emotional power from a man and a boy who find that they'll do just about anything to go on talking to each other.

The Ballad of Narayama

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Last Updated: Sunday, 27 October 2013 20:37
Written by Dolores E. Brien

Dolores Brien reflects on the lessons of Shohei Imamura’s 1982 film, The Ballad of Narayama. Only by recognizing what dying is really like can we rid ourselves of the fear of dying and prepare ourselves for what Sherwin Nuland says is the best we can hope for: our particular death.

“Answer to Job” Revisited : Jung on the Problem of Evil

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Last Updated: Monday, 03 November 2014 18:15
Written by David Sedgwick

Reprinted from the San Francisco Jung Institute Library Journal 21, no. 3 (2002): 5–21.

The Pattern of the Lion

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Last Updated: Sunday, 27 October 2013 20:37
Written by Frank N. McMillan, III
In 1985, the late Frank N. McMillan, Jr. donated funds to his alma mater, Texas A&M University, to endow the world’s first professorship in Analytical Psychology. Born in 1927, McMillan experienced a childhood immersed in the now almost vanished natural world of rural America. Inspired by an early archetypal experience, as an adult McMillan set out on the quest for meaning that transcended the limits of his traditional Christian background and propelled him into a firsthand encounter with the autonomous reality of the psyche. This search ultimately led to Jung.

Hope and Fear

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Last Updated: Sunday, 27 October 2013 20:37
Written by Donald Williams
Paul Valery captured our problem in one line: "We hope vaguely, but dread precisely."

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