Sublime

Devenu adolescent, Jung repérera aussi en lui-même une certaine dichotomie entre ce qu’il appellera sa « personnalité numéro I » – sociale, bien ancrée, rationnelle, soucieuse de respectabilité et d’efficacité – et sa « personnalité numéro II » : totalement libre du regard d’autrui, contemplative, en symbiose avec la nature, mais fragile et hantée

Comme je le disais en introduction, la pensée de Jung est circulaire dans sa structure, d’où la difficulté de l’exposer de façon linéaire, au fil d’un plan présentant une continuité. On parle aujourd’hui de « pensée en arborescence », conséquence d’une multitude de connexions neuronales dans le cerveau, que l’on rencontre souvent chez ceux qu’on ap

Adler was very different from Jung, who revered Freud as a father figure. Though psychology primarily tends to be associated with Freud and Jung, Adler is recognized throughout the rest of the world, along with Freud and Jung, as one of the three giants in this field.

• He could tap into what the psychologist Carl Jung referred to as the collective unconscious, linking with the universal energy that permeates and surrounds all living things. • He could also unlock his innate ability for genius, accessing brilliant ideas and unlimited energy from everyone and everything around him. It’s like tuning your radio to

Living with the self is the key practice in Jung's spiritual model, but what is the self? Dialoguing with inner figures is a quintessential feature of the Jungian approach: the self is often experienced in this way. Personified as an inner figure, it embodies an individual's essential nature and, although often overwhelming, the self still wears a

We like to think of ourselves as individuals. But it is important to remember that, on a deep level, we are really plural beings.

A single insight that arises naturally from inside your own psyche is of greater benefit to you than all the wisdom given to you by another person, whoever they may be.

In 1916, he presented a lecture to the association for analytical psychology entitled “The structure of the unconscious,” which was first published in a French translation in Flournoy’s Archives de Psychologie.148 Here, he differentiated two layers of the unconscious. The first, the personal unconscious, consisted in elements acquired during one’s