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Child Labor and Father-Gods: A Cultural Complex of Public Schools in the United States
Full text linkThis paper works from a Jungian perspective to explore the unconscious dynamics of an authoritarian cultural complex at work in public schools in the United States. The paper exposes two areas of what Jung called the shadow archetype: the historical narrative of child labor during the industrial revolution as a traumatic societal event; and mythic images of the Greek Father-gods who buried, ate, or imprisoned their children. The working hypothesis of the paper is that the trauma of child labor operates as a social force, an unconscious archetypal pattern of authority and exploitation that is imaged and illuminated by the mythic narratives of the Greek Father-gods. Using depth psychological concepts and methods, the paper reveals how these repressed traumas create unconscious cultural attitudes that view children as commodities whose innate value and potential are sacrificed to feed the nation’s economic power and growth rather than leading out the potential within each student. Kristeva’s theories of abjection and subject in process provide psychoanalytic insights into how authoritarian cultural attitudes toward the education of children enslave students in a mandated instructive process that inflicts a kind of violence upon them. In conclusion, the paper suggests that the current system of education calibrated to standardized testing needs to broaden significantly to include transformative educative processes encompassing learning through the body, senses, feeling, intuition, and imagination
White Dreamers and Black Madonnas: Unconscious Bias and White Privilege in Jungian Literature and Dreamwork
Full text linkReview of Jungian Arts-Based Research and “The Nuclear Enchantment of New Mexico” by Susan Rowland and Joel Weishaus
Full text linkThe Need to Increase Diversity in Jungian Communities: A Personal Journey
Full text linkWhat does increasing diversity in the Jungian Society for Scholarly Studies (JSSS) mean? I once thought that it meant increasing the number of members who are people of color. But then why is effort required to attract people of color into Jungian organizations
A Leadership Framework Derived from the Ideas of C. G. Jung
Full text linkThe author proposes a framework for understanding leadership that in his view derives from the work of C. G. Jung. The framework is offered as a potential advance in the study of wholeness as it pertains to the concepts of leader and leadership. The framework is contextualized with numerous references to Jung’s wider work and compared to the life experiences of several notables, including Jung himself. Suggestions are offered regarding work that might prove useful in testing the framework’s validity and applicability
Review of The Path of the Serpent, Volume 1: Psychedelics and the Neuropsychology of Gnosis by Hereward Tilton
Full text linkRevisioning the Animal Psyche
Full text linkA new paradigm for understanding animals and our relationship to them is emerging from scientific inquiry. This paper explores our historic beliefs about animals, reviews advances in animal research that are calling for a revision of those beliefs, and asks what contributions the field of depth psychology might make to the project of revisioning the animal psyche for the 21st century. Particular emphasis is given to mapping Jung’s biological understanding of psyche and archetype onto the emerging scientific model of evolutionary cognition, as well as consideration of imaginal consciousness and projection dynamics
Review of The Absent Father Effect on Daughters: Father Desire, Father Wounds by Susan E. Schwartz
Full text linkJung’s Letter to Major Donald E. Keyhoe
Full text linkIn 1958, C. G. Jung clarified his views on UFOs in a letter to prominent investigator Donald E. Keyhoe. The present essay analyzes the letter and the two men’s main writings on UFOs in the context of Keyhoe’s life, 1950s ufology, and historical revelations since his death in 1988. Like Donald H. Menzel’s meteorological explanation, the conservative opinions of Edward J. Ruppelt in Project Blue Book, and the unfair distortions by Edward Condon in his report for the Air Force, Jung’s psychological perspective on UFOs sits uneasily with Keyhoe’s absolute insistence that they are extraterrestrial. Despite receiving criticism from his peers for championing this view, Keyhoe was arguably the greatest contemporary influence on Jung’s thinking about UFOs. Charles A. Lindbergh’s 1959 meeting with Jung, in which they discussed Keyhoe’s work, shows that Jung’s interest in the subject waned as he neared the end of his life. Nevertheless, he had unknowingly borne witness to a shadowy cover-up that violated the freedom of information, stymied even well-connected investigators like Keyhoe, and continues today despite scholars’ efforts to disclose the truth
C. G. Jung’s Thoughts on the Concepts of Leader and Leadership
Full text linkA review of the written record suggests that C. G. Jung had relatively little to say about leadership. It also appears that the scattered comments he did make on the topic have garnered him little credit. Sensing, however, under-acknowledged value in Jung’s offerings, the authors of the present study curate the various pieces of this material and comment on the relevance of Jung’s thoughts to the field of leadership studies. The authors suggest caution in interpreting his ideas, given the differences between social norms prevailing in Jung’s time and those current today, and recommend avenues for further application of Jung’s ideas on leadership