The Demons of the Mirror – Folklore, Depth Psychology, and the Age of the Smartphone
The blog explores the symbolic role of mirrors in myths and fairy tales, linking them to the modern “black mirror” of smartphones. Drawing on Jung […]
Living Beyond Gender – A Jungian Reading of Cori Cohn’s Story
This blog examines Cori Cohn’s reflections on life beyond gender, as discussed in the recent episode of the Beyond Gender podcast, through a Jungian lens. […]
Queerism as a Cultural, Psychological, and Historical Phenomenon
This post examines queerism as more than ideology, framing it as a cultural, psychological, and historical phenomenon. It explores phenomenology’s focus on lived experience, Jung’s […]
Shifting Focus – Walking Leicester with a Camera in Search of Renewal
Leicester’s city centre looked bright under the first warm sun in weeks, yet a walk with my camera revealed more than just busy streets and […]
Synthetic Selves and the Eternal Youth – Archetypes, Augmentation, and the Grounding of Human Identity
This blog reviews the TV programme Alien Earth and its vision of synthetic humans, linking Bret Alderman’s reading of the Peter Pan motif to Jung’s […]
Tensions Between Phenomenological and Hermeneutical Approaches to Gender Identity
This review of the Beyond Gender episode with Kenneth Zucker explores the tension between phenomenological and hermeneutical approaches to gender identity. It shows how phenomenology […]
Trans Gods and the Archetypal Dimension of Gender Identity
How might Gender Identity be understood not only as a medical or political issue, but as a symbolic and archetypal phenomenon? What happens when we […]
Between Diagnosis and Meaning – Jaspers, Jung, Freud, and the Question of Gender Identity
How should we understand mental illness and identity? Karl Jaspers offered psychiatry a balance between medical explanation and hermeneutical understanding. Freud and Jung deepened the […]
Sexuality as a Distinguishing Factor from the Pleroma in Carl Jung’s The Red Book, Scrutinies Part III
Carl Jung viewed sexuality as more than a biological function; he saw it as a key principle of differentiation shaping human individuation. How does sexuality […]
Jung’s Pleroma, Differentiation, and the Sexual Mystery of Individuation
What does Jung mean by the Pleroma as fullness and nothingness? How does differentiation shape our becoming as human beings? In what way do sex […]