When Silence Becomes a Shadow – Jung, Dialogue, and the Fire We Are Forgetting
What happens to a culture when people are denied the chance to finish their thoughts? Is the word “bigot” used today to end dialogue rather […]
Articles by Rob Watson
Virtue as Power, Display as Hypocrisy, and Policing as Herd Control
What does virtue really mean in Western culture—authentic moral depth or a performance for social approval? How do Nietzsche’s critique of herd morality and Jung’s […]
Bodies, Symbols, and the Gender Question – A Metamodern Reflection
What does a Jungian perspective reveal about the current debates on gender identity? How do concepts like anima, animus, and archetypes shape our understanding of […]
My Philosophical Belief – Sex, Gender Identity, and the Integrity of Open Inquiry
This statement sets out my personal philosophical belief as it relates to sex, gender identity, and associated ideological positions. I make this statement in the […]
Dreams, Empaths, and the Quiet Work of Reflection – Notes on Jung’s Dream Seminars
Over recent weeks, I’ve been reading Carl Jung’s Seminars on Dream Analysis, which document a series of conversations where Jung guides students and colleagues through […]
From Role to Process – Parenting, Archetypes, and the Unravelling of Social Authority
In a revealing Beyond Gender discussion with Nancy McDermott, author of The Problem with Parenting, a striking observation is made about the transformation in how […]
Symbols in the Heat: Reflections on Zarathustra, Jung, and the Eternal Return
https://robwatsonmedia.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Distraction-Therapy-Talk-002-2025-06-30-Mixdown.mp3As I recorded today’s Distraction Therapy podcast, I found myself once again at Leicester Cathedral, shaded from the intense summer heat, contemplating the disorientation and […]
Parasites of the Collective Psyche – 28 Years Later and Reflections on a Hollowed-Out Social Life
There’s a hollowness I keep encountering—not in isolated pockets of society, but as a spreading atmosphere. Something fundamental has shifted in the texture of social […]
Beginning the Descent – A Jungian-Metamodern Journey Into Zarathustra
https://robwatsonmedia.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Distraction-Therapy-Talks-001-2025-06-23-Mixdown.mp3It’s a warm, blustery Monday afternoon in Leicester, and I’m sitting in the cathedral gardens with a notebook and a recorder. After some time away […]
From Newton to Jung – Rethinking Woke as a Psychoid Phenomenon
In a recent episode of the Triggernometry podcast, Andrew Doyle engaged in a wide-ranging and at times impassioned conversation about what he and others have […]