Sublime

Sometimes, in an extension of our own human creativity, we come to see our emotions, proclivities, passions, and challenges as spirits too. In making such abstractions a little more concrete, it becomes easier to manage and direct them, allowing witches to live more balanced, fruitful, and joyful lives.

Jung, especially, developed a psychotherapy that was oriented toward soul. Unlike Freud, who viewed the unconscious as a boiling cauldron of evil impulses, Jung uncovered our lost creative impulses lying there, as well as the lost gods or mythological images that he called archetypes.

The concept of this individualized soul-image has a long, complicated history; its appearance in cultures is diverse and widespread and the names for it are legion. Only our contemporary psychology and psychiatry omit it from their textbooks. The study and therapy of the psyche in our society ignore this factor, which other cultures regard as the

The shadow goes by many familiar names: the disowned self, the lower self, the dark twin or brother in bible and myth, the double, repressed self, alter ego, id. When we come face-to-face with our darker side, we use metaphors to describe these shadow encounters: meeting our demons, wrestling with the devil, descent to the underworld, dark night of

The anima/animus usually appears in films, fiction, dreams—and waking life—as a compelling, opposite-sex other: what I am not. It can manifest in an idealized way, such as Helen of Troy or Superman, or in its dark aspect, in figures such as Medea and Dracula. Whereas shadow is largely related to personal experience, the anima/animus is infused with