When Empathy Becomes an Orthodoxy in Gender Identity Discussions
The recent Beyond Gender podcast discussion with Jasmin Faulk, Stella O’Malley, and Bret Alderman raises an important question about how empathy, and its corollary protection, […]
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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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Jung, the Anima and Animus, and the Gender Identity Debate
This blog explores Carl Jung’s concepts of the anima and animus as symbolic contrasexual aspects of the psyche, drawing on The Red Book to examine […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Exploring Gender Identity Through a Jungian Lens – A Multidimensional Approach
Gender identity, a deeply personal and culturally charged topic, has become a focal point of psychological, social, and philosophical discourse. Discussions like those on the […]