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Saint Guinefort Addressing Thomas Aquinas’s Shadow
Full text linkIn 1250, the French monk and inquisitor Etienne de Bourbon described a strange cult he had found in the Dombes, a poor agricultural region North of Lyon in France. In confession, he had heard many women who recognized that they had prayed to Saint Guinefort, Martyr. Upon inquiring on the saint unknown to him, de Bourbon found out that Guinefort was a dog. Taking into account Jung\u27s reflections on animals and his notion of conjunctio oppositorum, this paper will examine the reasons why, in the thirteenth century France, the peasants\u27 piety canonized a dog, a fact unique in Christian history. This question will be addressed here in two steps: why did the French peasants include a dog among the Christians saints, and what does today\u27s anthropozoology have to say about animals\u27 healing powers
The Finer Forge:: Work and the Fires of Transformation
Full text linkThis paper explores work in the light of Jungian psychology. There are two trends of ideas that can be discerned in Jung’s writings regarding the subject of work. On the one hand, work is associated with the ego’s adaptation to life in the social world. This view results in an opposition between external work—often called “real work”—and inner work. Meaning is associated with inner work and is divorced from a primary activity of everyday life. On the other hand, Jung takes an historical view of the work instinct and derives the appearance of work from the activity of the transformation of libido. In this view, work is understood as a symbolic process reflecting an inner development. External work and ‘inner work’ are reunited in this attitude. The figure of Hephaistos is employed to explore the archetypal background of the experience of work. Fairy tales and poetry are used to illustrate the transformational nature of the Hephaistian energy that manifests in our work with its potential for both creative and destructive outcomes
Why Hillman Matters
Full text linkThis article began as a contribution to a panel on the significance of James Hillman at the 2006 meeting of the international Association for Jungian Studies. The author describes the impact on his own thinking of the encounter with Hillman\u27s ideas over three decades. He suggests that Hillman\u27s thinking represents the evolution of an intellectual tradition which has been called the \u27radical enlightenment\u27, in contrast to the \u27conventional enlightenment\u27 from which scientific materialism emerged. As the limitations of scientific materialism become more evident, the contributions of radical thinkers such as Jung, Whitehead and Hillman become critically significant
One Mind:: Jung and Meister Eckhart on God and Mystical Experience
Full text linkOne Mind: Jung and Meister Eckhart on God and Mystical Experienc
Utilizing the Concept of the Shadow in Fiction Writing in order to Facilitate a Dialogue between Ego Consciousness and the Unconscious
Full text linkUtilizing the Concept of the Shadow in Fiction Writing in order to Facilitate a Dialogue between Ego Consciousness and the Unconsciou
Theory Matters: Analytical Psychology and the Human Experience of Despair
Full text linkTheory Matters: Analytical Psychology and the Human Experience of Despair
Through (With) the Looking Glass:: A Reflection
Full text linkThrough (With) the Looking Glass: A Reflectio