Clients frequently ask me “what is the secret to achieving happiness?” to which I respond matter-of-factly “there is no secret.” Happiness after all is a state of mind, and a state of mind is very difficult to measure. People do not achieve happiness but happiness happens to them. Happiness…
in Zurich, Switzerland, where he pioneered the word association experiment and coined the term complex. Jung collaborated with Sigmund Freud between 1906 and 1913. Theoretical differences gradually led to a professional rift between the two men, which culminated with Jung’s publication of Transformations and Symbols of the Libido in 1912….
The Eight-Function Model (aka Eight-Function Eight-Archetype Model) is a depth typological system originally devised by Jungian analyst John Beebe (Figure 1). The model is predicated on eight archetypal principles that correlate to the eight function-attitudes described in C.G. Jung’s book Psychological Types. Beebe suggests that each of the four…
The next and final dream in the series takes place a week later. The dream contains a number of similar leitmotivs that suggest a direct connection with the first and second ones. This is what the man recalled from this dream: From the outset, we observe the same basic…
The next dream in the series takes place a few months later. The dream contains a number of similar leitmotivs that suggest a direct connection with the first one. This is what the man recalled from his dream: The man is again accompanied by his wife and children in…
In 1936, C.G. Jung (Figure 1) first introduced his essay “Dream Symbols of the Process of Individuation,”. Jung (1944/1970) later renamed the same essay “Individual Dream Symbolism in Relation to Alchemy” and published it in Psychology and Alchemy. The essay focused on a series of highly archetypal dreams—over 400…
Phoenix Rising: A Comparative Study of the Phoenix Symbol as a Goal of the Alchemical Work and the Individuation Process This paper explores the archetypal symbolism in the final chapter of Michael Maier’s (1617) seminal work Symbols of the Golden Table of the Twelve Nations, which Maier treats as a…
In the wake of his confrontation with the unconscious (1913-1916), C.G. Jung wrote a short essay titled “The Transcendent Function;” and although the essay was not published until 1957, it is in my opinion one of his most important works. Jung (1916/1957) indicated that the essay was written as a…
Active imagination is a technique or method devised by C.G. Jung, to engage, interpret, and integrate fantasy-images and other subliminal contents that arise from the unconscious. Jung originally referred to the method as spontaneous fantasy or non-directed thinking. Jung (1928) suggested that the method was “a question of releasing unconscious…
