Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/00332925.2022.2157140
Mathew V. Spano
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Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/00332925.2022.2153526
P. Power
The author compares idiopathic epilepsy in her dog to her own life-long emotional “fits” in search of deeper understanding. Delving into the mechanisms of both conditions, she explores the dog-human connection and seeks amelioration of problematic symptoms—for both. She considers the personal, practical, and transpersonal dimensions. God is an ailment man has to cure… –Jung (1975, p. 33)
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Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/00332925.2022.2157151
M. Mccarthy
Henning shows how our lives are rooted in the physical, in the hungers and thirsts we share with the doe and buck, that our very imagining of the “silvered wolf” makes him “the heart’s centerpiece.” The natural world beyond our fences reminds us of our mistake, of the “fracture” that grew because we have “forgotten the wholeness of the world.” Faithfully, the world remains, calling us; the animals “continue to weep” as separation brings suffering to all. In Henning’s poems, healing the fracture comes with attention and intent, seeing the doe’s hunger, and the coyote’s, watching the transformation from serving and satisfying hunger into the doe’s “burst of radiant being.” In “Exchange,” her sister watches a doe dying in the aftermath of a coyote attack. The poem becomes a kind of magical spell, where the deer returns as a trout, its side marked by spots that were the coyote’s teeth marks, marks that the
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Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/00332925.2022.2138198
A. J. Howe
Jung often stated that one must find one’s myth and that children would manufacture their own mythology if left to their own devices. Video games are a common part of childhood today but are often maligned and conflated with pathologic addiction. In this paper, I present the case of “R,” who played games in The Legend of Zelda series during his childhood. In R’s present therapy, these games have taken on a new significance. He has revisited the characters and stories of the series, and we have considered its potential psychological impact in our sessions. On reflection, playing video games in The Legend of Zelda series helped him to navigate his childhood and adolescence after a difficult time with an emotionally abusive childcare provider. In this paper, I present the game series as well as the four specific games R played. Using a combination of his and my reflections alongside other academic investigation, I suggest his playing of the games were a way of accessing a mythology that felt relevant to him and was in truth a form of active imagination. One can withhold the material content of primitive myths from a child but not take from him the need for mythology, and still less his ability to manufacture it for himself. —Jung (1967, para. 30)
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Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/00332925.2022.2135940
Fariba Darabimanesh, Monir Saleh, Christian van Gorder
Both Jalal al-din Rumi and Carl Gustav Jung explored the brilliance of sacred transformation, and how changes and growth happen in order to touch God’s essence and reach individuation. This study compares ideas of transformation in these two observers of human nature. We explore the emphasis on the sacred and intuitive perceptions of Rumi alongside the categorical ideas of Jung, writing 700 years later. Both delved into the deepest layers of human nature, with a focus on how conceptions of the core of “self” could bring a sense of inner illumination toward either union with God (Rumi) or individuation (Jung).
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Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/00332925.2022.2153522
Carolyn Mikulencak
This essay explores the complex relationship between mothers and daughters by looking at both the Grimms’ fairy tale “The Three Spinners” and my own experience, imagined and real, of being a daughter to my mother.
本文通过格林童话《三个纺纱机》(the Three spinning)和我自己作为母亲女儿的想象和真实经历,探讨了母亲与女儿之间复杂的关系。
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Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/00332925.2022.2154585
Katrina Hays
This letter to the author’s Jungian therapist discusses the process by which therapy and the practice of writing align in a mysterious connection between upwelling unconscious and the divine interaction with human creativity. The attendant four poems investigate the haunted spaces of the psyche where self-hatred and physical harm jostle with the insistences of soul. The frame of depth work, a writing practice, and thousands of hours spent physically engaged with the world’s waters were combined to create a wide and ongoing inquiry into the nature of the writer’s inner life and the invisible archetypal pressures that bear down on awareness. The resulting letter and poetry show a developed sense of the mysterious connection of things seen and unseen, and relatedness with an invisible, instructive framework that allows the writer to live within body, and express via word. The final judgment is that the author writes herself into being each day; that practice keeps her wide and sensitive, supple and alive.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/00332925.2022.2153524
David Potik
Evidence-based psychological treatments of combat posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) focus on well-organized protocols whose aim is symptom resolution. However, these protocols do not address either the patient’s subjective experience or to the therapist’s role during such treatments. According to the depth psychology perspective presented herein, combat PTSD patients are heroes whose quest was to serve their country, but their encounter with the dragon left them with psychic and spiritual deadness. During the treatment of such patients, the therapist the therapist embodies, or personifies, the ancient Greek god, Hermes, who helps the patient to acquire the necessary skills for the therapeutic quest. In this quest, the therapist symbolizes aliveness and is the generator of an alchemical change.
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