psychology
evidence for America as a psychological ses pool?
Morris Berman’s latest post on his Dark Ages America blog summarizes all the prime information on why the United States is such a lonely place to live. My own experience is that the US is a psychological ses pool, perhaps this is a phrase that Berman himself used at one point or that I adopted [...]
realms of the human unconscious
Maybe we have to be born with an interest in the origin of consciousness, where it resides and how it operates, I’m one of those people. No explanation garnered by science, religion, mystics, or from indigenous wisdom has ever fully approximated what I’ve seen in the world. Transpersonal psychologist Stanislov Grof’s first book, Realms of [...]
the importance of myth and poetic imagery via Jung
“The collective unconscious appears to consist of mythological motifs or primordial images, for which reason the myths of all nations are its real exponents. In fact the whole of mythology could be taken as a sort of projection of the collective unconscious. We can see this most clearly if we look at the heavenly constellations, [...]
some interesting thoughts on Freud’s time in the US
Among many things I learned from Russel Jacoby’s recent article from the Chronicles of Higher Education on Freud’s 1909 visit to the United States: Freud only made one visit to the United States. I find that fact incredibly interesting after viewing The Century of the Self, an amazing BBC documentary series on the influence of [...]
