Other Insights from Chapter 27:  Hitler is a Medicine Man In search of a Weltanschauung: Even a casual historian of culture or a neophyte in the history of ideas would find it difficult to disagree with Isaiah Berlin's claim that the opposition to the French Enlightenment, which heralded the pr...

There is Greatness in You:  Chapter 21 In Shakespeare's Twelfth Night we read "Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon them". (Quote Act II, Scene V).  Jung looked into his soul and found greatness inside of him....

Chapter 16: Creative Illness: It has often been said that the illnesses of creative artists are worthy of in-depth study.  In fact, illnesses played a central role in the life and work of many writers, painters and sculptors of the Romantic Movement , for example, Samuel Taylor Coleridge.  ...

Chapter 14: Enough Women: Freud's Ego Again One aspect of Freud's personality that jumps out at one from this book is the extent to which he believed in his own theories at the level of a fundamentalist believer in a new and all-embracing religion.  His language about psychoanalysis is, in shor...

Those Bewitching Women:  Before I begin my reflections on this chapter, I wish momentarily to refer to Jung's obsession with the fairer sex.  In January 1910 Jung began an affair with Maria Moltzer , a nurse at the psychiatric hospital of Burgholzli - she was a strong-minded woman, a year ...

Chapter 10:  Ardent Freudian: Jung and Freud remained very close friends for some seven years from March 1907 till 1914.  As Hayman succinctly remarks about this friendship: "Both benefited professionally: the alliance helped to propagate Freud's ideas, while the ideas helped both of ...

One of my favourite sayings from Jung is the one about how the first half of life is generally geared towards achievement in the world - success, a career and family building while the second part of life is primarily concerned with soul building or "soul making" as the great Romantic poet...

It was the apology that Sydney (and its media) eagerly waited for, and the agitation increased as the days passed by during this week, or World Youth Day Week. Sexual abuse has made headlines around the world, and it seems that there are ways to go in regard to sorting the issues out but an apology ...

(Zauberlettorilli cari, è in arrivo sulle vostre capocce uno psichico post di pesantezza veramente infida, e seriosissimo al quanto: perché esso non è solo uno psichico post ma un ibridillo post. Ovvero risponde alle necessità del blog di ibrid@menti, che io ho ribattezzato i “pronipoti...

"The whole point of humor, Freud thought, is to get around our inhibitions." Jim Holt — author "Stop Me If You've Heard This: A History and Philosophy of Jokes" — reacts to the story of Judge Alex Kozinski, his personal (but on-line) porn, and his wife's defense of it ("Alex is not into porn —...