The best political, social, and spiritual work we can do is to withdraw the projection of our shadow onto others.— Carl Jung The shadow self, coined by Carl Jung, was seen as the projection of intolerable aspects of the self onto others. We will find fault in others that are actually projections of unwanted aspects … Continue reading Projection
Violence
These violent delights have violent ends And in their triump die, like fire and powder Which, as they kiss, consume — Shakespeare The violence we see in others is in all of us. After a terrible tragedy of yet another school shooting, we wring our hands and try to understand what it was that motivated … Continue reading Violence
Racism
If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge? — Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice. From the dark inner reaches of our unconscious mind comes our deepest fears of ourselves. We … Continue reading Racism
All about us
...yet the analytic process per se remains alien to the thinking of the twentieth century and is a foreign body in it. — Eissler I recently read a paper in the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association entitled "Freud and the Psychoanalysis of History" by K. R. Eissler, M. D. It is chilling to read … Continue reading All about us
Dreams
We are such stuff as dreams are made on; and our little life is rounded with a sleep. — Shakespeare, "The Tempest" Psychoanalysis was born from the analysis of dreams. With "The Interpretation of Dreams", Freud introduces us to the concept of the unconscious and analysis. Freud taught us that we could differentiate between the … Continue reading Dreams
Knowing You 