“Anything conscious can be corrected. But anything that slips away into the unconscious is beyond the reach of correction and, its rank growth undisturbed, is
Intellectually the Self is no more than a psychological concept, a construct that serves to express an unknowable essence which we cannot grasp as such,
[T]he most important relationship of childhood, the relation to the mother, will be compensated by the mother archetype as soon as detachment from the childhood
For a contented ego, all things big and small matter only with regard to their impact on me and whatever it is that matters to
[T]he individual who wishes to have an answer to the problem of evil, as it is posed today, has need, first and foremost of self-knowledge,
In the history of humankind the differentiation of man and woman belongs among the earliest and most impressive projections of opposites, and early humankind took
“Life behaves as if it were going on, and so I think it is better for an old person to live on, to look forward
I usually schedule a post to be published one minute after midnight every Tuesday morning. I’ve done that pretty consistently for thirteen years with the
“. . . man’s instinctive nature is divided between the instinct for self-preservation and the instinct for species-preservation.” Sigmund Freud “On Narcissism: An Introduction”,
Obviously we do not know how the ego arose in man. We have certain myths showing how ancient man thought about this problem, and we
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