Jungian Thoughts

By George Elder, 5/30/24 One of the difficulties of psychology is that one may have to unsay what was said—given the differences among...

By George Elder, 4/25/24 Jung was familiar with all of the material in my first essay on this topic. (Please, re-read.) In fact, Edward...

By George Elder, 3/25/24 In Western philosophy, the “problem of opposites” is as old as the fragments of Heraclitus’ thought around 500...

By George Elder, 2/23/24 A few days after I finished my recent Posts on “The God Within,” I was watching a documentary entitled, “For All...

By George Elder, 1/27/24 Jung’s discovery that “God” is within the human psyche had its precedents. Perhaps the earliest was in India,...

By George Elder, 12/25/23 Christmas, of course, is the “Mass of Christ” that celebrates the birth of Jesus Christ, the divine Savior in...

By George Elder, 12/4/23 C. G. Jung’s greatest contribution to culture is his discovery of the collective unconscious. It is a profound...

By George R. Elder, 10/3/23 This essay is about an image—a marble statue entitled, “L’aveugle et le paralytique”—that won a first class...

By George Elder, 8/15/23 In my earlier Post on this topic, I focused on the negative side of the “shadow”—Jung’s name for the...

By George R. Elder, 6/13/23 I have just published a new book: The Self and the Lotus: A Jungian View of Indian Buddhism . You can buy it...