Jungian Thoughts

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...

By George R. Elder, 6/4/23 As a little boy, I would lie in front of our big console radio (yes, I’m that old) and listen to a program...

4/12/23 By George R. Elder I have not posted to this site for some time . . . while finishing a long book on the psychology of ancient...

Some friends have asked me to comment on the coronavirus pandemic. It struck them as having something to do with the “Apocalypse”—about...