Category: Soul & Symbol: Perspectives in Depth Psychology

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Depth psychology is the study of the soul in its wildest, most honest form. Here, we look through the lens of Soul and Symbol to move beyond clinical labels, beholding the dreams, archetypes, and hidden complexes that pulse beneath the surface of conscious awareness. Drawing from the wells of Jung, Freud, and other mythic traditions, these perspectives bridge the gap between our daily routines and the profound mysteries of the inner world.

  • Analytic Tools

    Analytic Tools

    When we analyze our dreams–even our so-called ‘waking dreams’–what we’re analyzing is images that have particular meaning to us as individuals. No one else will perceive the meanings we perceive.

  • Dialogue

    Dialogue

    Everyone who proposes to come to terms with himself must reckon with the basic problem of letting the other person’s argument count.

  • The Abundant Womb

    The Abundant Womb

    Neither marriage nor childrearing will save you. Spouses and children do not satisfy the need for spiritual and psychological advancement

  • The Best of Times

    The Best of Times

    Personality-disordered people share the traits of being unable to empathize, of being defensive and unteachable, unable to think outside the box they live in. They are dishonest. They avoid suffering. They can’t say “I’m sorry.”

  • Master, Mentor, Teacher, Guide

    Master, Mentor, Teacher, Guide

    A person who changes lifelong patterns does it through consistent, wise, reliable accountability to another, and also by having the structure that supports the pattern systematically dismantled.

  • Person-ality Problems

    Person-ality Problems

    People may stay involved in impossible relationships far longer than they ought, at a risk to their own happiness and health.

  • Animuse

    Animuse

    The masculine archetype hunts and kills, whereas the feminine gives life and nurtures; therefore a man dealing with his anima confronts and becomes entangled in life, whereas a woman dealing with her animus encounters situations involving aim and direction.

  • See It Through

    See It Through

    Literature is replete with tales of those who come to times like this, places in which a person is suspended among choices that present tests of character with the direst consequences.

  • In Knots

    In Knots

    Through the loss of three of our members and the theft of my billfold, our Jungian seminar was learning how to interpret a series of surprising events as waking dreams.

  • A Calling of Wolves

    A Calling of Wolves

    When extraordinary events occur, they’re like a calling of wolves outside the window, calling us to pay attention. The whole thrust of Freud and Jung is the idea of making things conscious.