Expanding Leicester – Building a Metamodern City for the 21st Century
This post explores Leicester’s proposal to expand its city boundaries and create a unified metropolitan authority, framing it as an opportunity to build a modern, […]
Articles by Rob Watson
Finding My Ikigai in Japan – Notes of a Metamodern Practice
I’ve just returned from my first trip to Japan, and I’m starting a series to make sense of what I experienced. I went in as […]
Rage, Reels, and the Cost of Attention in Japan
During my first visit to Japan, I’ve been struck by how everyday civility contrasts with the UK’s growing discord. Chris Broad’s reflections on social media […]
Hermetic Principles, Kabbalah, and Jung – Can They Help Us Think More Clearly about Gender Identity?
This article critiques the “social contagion” metaphor in gender identity debates and offers a deeper lens drawn from Hermetic principles, Kabbalah, and Jungian depth psychology. […]
The Myth We Are Living – A Post-Ideological Reading of the Present
Explore how modern archetypes shape our digital age through this essay on myth, consciousness, and social change. Drawing on Jung’s idea of cultural possession, it […]
The Psyche as Music – From Chaos to Form
The psyche can be understood as a musical experience, where unformed impulses emerge into melody, harmony, and rhythm. Scenes such as Mozart dictating the Requiem […]
Sympathetic Resonance, Biological Sex, and the Gender Identity Debate
Exploring gender identity through Jung’s depth psychology means moving beyond “contagion” or “mind-virus” metaphors. Sympathetic resonance offers a richer analogy, showing how collective archetypes vibrate […]
Sorting Apples with Apples, and Pears with Pears – Psychological Orientation in the Treatment of Gender Incongruence
Sorting apples with apples and pears with pears captures Carl Jung’s warning about confusing psychological orientations. In therapeutic treatment of Gender Incongruence, clarity requires distinguishing […]
Virtue in Conflict – Gender Identity, Cultural Consensus, and Jung’s Hierarchy of Values
Jordan Peterson’s conversation with Graham Linehan and Andrew Doyle highlights how empathy has become the dominant moral test in gender identity debates. Linehan’s defence of […]
Living in Truth – Václav Havel and the Challenge of Compelled Conformity
This blog examines Václav Havel’s ideas in The Power of the Powerless, written under Czechoslovakia’s Soviet-backed regime, and links them to modern UK Employment Tribunal […]