This is the seventh post in the Mythology and the Psyche series, and Part 3 of the entries on the shadow archetype. A list of all the posts in the series can be found here. We don’t recoil from the shadow just because we’re afraid of the dark. While the image of our rejected self… Continue Reading
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The Stranger Inside Me: The Shadow Part 2
This is the sixth post in the Mythology and the Psyche series, and Part 2 of the entries on the shadow archetype. A list of all the posts in the series can be found here. Also, I apologise for the ridiculous length of this entry, but the shadow is so complex and wanted to give a full… Continue Reading
The Stranger Inside Me: The Shadow Part 1
This is the fifth post in the Mythology and the Psyche series, a list of all the posts in the series can be found here. In myth, the physical world emerges from the eternal realm which is characterized by Oneness. The spiritual realm crystallizes into the material world, and it is only when this visible world… Continue Reading
How (Not) to Fall in Love: The Anima/Animus
This is the fourth post in the Mythology and the Psyche series, a list of all the posts in the series can be found here. In myth, the only place duality and separation exist is in the visible world. In the eternal realm, from which the physical world emanates at the beginning of the cosmogonic cycle,… Continue Reading
Forgetting to Remember: The Unconscious
This is the third post in the Mythology and the Psyche series, a list of all the posts in the series can be found here. As Jung warns us, the ego and its attendant persona endeavour to “conceal the true nature of the individual.” And while the ego is tasked with being the psyche’s executive,… Continue Reading
Hiding in Plain Sight: The Persona
This is the second post in the Mythology and the Psyche series, a list of all the posts in the series can be found here. The next layer of the Self is the persona. This is another concept borrowed directly from Jung. He chose the term ‘persona’ because it is Latin for ‘mask,’ specifically in… Continue Reading
Through the Looking Glass: The Self and the Ego
This is the first post in the Mythology and the Psyche series, based on Joseph Campbell’s lecture ‘Psyche and Symbol’ in Mythos. You can find a list of all the posts in the series here. A quick note: while the term the Self is used partially as a reference to Jung’s concept, I do not… Continue Reading
The Soul is a Circle: Mythology and the Psyche
In the next few posts I’ll be discussing a model of the psyche presented by Joseph Campbell in his lecture series, Mythos. It’s important to note, that while he draws extensively from Jung, he explains that he does not do so because Jung is the “final word” on any of this, but only because he… Continue Reading
The Cosmogonic Cycle: Dissolutions Part 2
While the dissolutions stage is essentially the end of the world, a stage commonly associated with doom, pain, suffering, judgement, death and indeed extinction, it is more accurate to say it is the disappearance of the world only, not its annihilation. However, Campbell acknowledges the fear inherent in the myths of the cosmogonic round: “Creation… Continue Reading
The Cosmogonic Cycle: Dissolutions Part 1
And so we come at last to the final stage of the cosmogonic cycle. Dissolutions: where the visible world dissolves back into the unmanifest source. We are familiar with this stage in its guise as the many stories of the end of the world: the Bible’s Book of Revelations, the Norse Ragnarok, the Hindu age… Continue Reading