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A Jungian Perspective on the Dissociability of the Self

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Last Updated: Saturday, 06 June 2020 16:42
Written by Brian R. Skea
Brian Skea discusses trauma, transference and transformation in relationship to the dissociated complex that can cause neurotic conflict or more serious disorders, such as Borderline Personality Disorder, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder or even psychosis. 

 

The Cultural Complex and Archetypal Defenses of the Collective Spirit

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Last Updated: Sunday, 27 October 2013 20:37
Written by Thomas Singer
In this terra-cotta relief from the Greco-Roman era we see the baby Zeus surrounded by his shieldbearing protectors, the Kouretes, also known as the Daimones. Had it not been for them, according to the myth, this child of Rhea and Kronos would have been devoured by his father, who was in the habit of swallowing his children. A Cretan hymn tells the story: "For here the shielded Nurturers took thee, a child immortal, from Rhea, and with noise of beating feet hid thee away."

Jung’s Answer to Job: A Commentary

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Last Updated: Sunday, 27 October 2013 20:37
Written by Susan Rowland
In this article, Susan Rowland pronounces Paul Bishop’s Jung’s Answer to Job: A Commentary as a remarkable and scholarly book that illuminates Jung’s entire opus through comprehensive attention to one of the most striking and distinctive of the Collected Works. Rowland deems Bishop’s commentary on Jung’s Answer to Job as a text no serious reader of Jung should be without and hails it as a successful text for non-Jungian readers interested in such a tragically timely work.

 

Thoughts on Evil

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Last Updated: Sunday, 27 October 2013 20:37
Written by James M. Shultz

James M. Schultz uses Jung’s text, “Answer to Job,” to discuss the interlaced relationship of good and evil as well as their simultaneous existence within God, portrayed by the testing of Job. Schultz contends that because everything emanates from and belongs to God, there is evil within us. Therefore, the battlefield of choice is within us.

 

Nature -- Source of Ethics and Meaning. Depth psychology and modern-day nature perception

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Last Updated: Sunday, 27 October 2013 20:37
Written by Thomas Ruddy
After the publication of Dr. Willy Obrist’s third major German-language book, Die Natur -- Quelle von Ethik und Sinn. Tiefenpsychologie und heutige Naturerkenntnis, (Nature—Source of Ethics and Meaning. Depth psychology and modern-day nature perception) analyst Thomas Ruddy offers a brief outline of Obrist’s latest text, in which Obrist asks what proof can be found for the existence of “objective mind,” and “sets out to provide the proof in a degree of detail that would satisfy natural scientists.”

 

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