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Carl Jung, a life lesson https://t.co/COlD3ezWlm

Jungian psychologist Marie-Louise von Franz on the reality of wasted potential, brutal https://t.co/cOOQRaYWFb

By their questions and their attention, their careful probing and investigative stealth, the therapist tries – harder than anyone may yet have done – to discover how our presenting problem might be related to the rest of our existence and, in particular, to the turmoils of childhood. Over many sessions, a succession of small discoveries contributes

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In fact, it is possible to read The Interpretation of Dreams as a first-person, experimental novel; a book about a late nineteenth-century bourgeois doctor's obsessive search for the solution to an ancient mystery. His single-mindedness is vaguely reminiscent of Ahab's obstinate pursuit of the great white whale in Moby Dick. As the quest proceeds,

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The writer and psychoanalyst Marion Milner, on the value of writing and journaling:

I had often thought that novelists and poets had a special advantage in learning how to live, their writings providing them with an instrument that most of us were denied. By being able to dramatize their own difficulties they were in a far better position for solvin

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The legend of Theseus and the Minotaur is full of imagery and incident that lends itself to psychoanalytic interpretation: the minotaur - half man, half animal - embodies the essential conflict between ego and id; the labyrinth, which coincidentally resembles the sulci of the cortex, suggests the complexities of the mind. In 1927, Freud told an int

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