Star Trek’s Borg : symbol of the collective unconscious in its devouring and annihilating shadow aspect
In light of Jungian analyst Erich Neumann’s approach we explore the collective unconscious in its devouring and destructive shadow aspect, as illustrated by the Borg in Star Trek.
Peggy Vermeesch, PhD
What fairy tales can teach us about healing from early trauma and narcissistic abuse
This series of three articles explores what we can learn from fairy tales about the effects of growing up with a narcissistic or codependent parent and how one can break this cycle of intergenerational trauma and splitting.
Mary’s Child, Snow White, The Little Mermaid and The Frog King all provide clues and amplification. Special attention is given to the dynamics of love bombing, isolating, and gaslighting, and the trap of carrying someone else’s shadow. It is also shown how narcissistic abuse often stays unrecognized and hidden : to the person at the receiving end of it as well as their community.
Peggy Vermeesch, PhD
Homeopathy and synchronicity
In accordance with the work of C.G. Jung, Dr Bernard Long explains how homeopathy can escape the law of causality in some aspects by relying on meaning through meaning : synchronicity.
It would be tempting for many reasons to bring homeopathy into the field of experimental medicine by means of conventional explanations and methods…
Bernard Long, M.D.
C.G. Jung, Gerard de Nerval, and Aurelia
Jung’s lecture on Aurélia by Nerval, published with the title On psychological and visionary art, was not simple to read, but it did provide a way to uncover a hidden part of Jung.
After reading this fascinating and challenging book I came to the conclusion that it was first and foremost about Jung, and that the essential was to be found in the 1945 lecture.
Ariane Callot, Doctor of philosophy
Toni Wolff’s structural forms of the feminine psyche
As a complement to C.G. Jung’s theory of the psychological functions (thinking, feeling, sensation, intuition), Wolff developed an innovative theory of the feminine psyche. One path to individuation is integrating all four structural forms or types.
Doing this work brings wholeness and a full life, and it provides some protection against the shadow possibilities of each archetype. This is equally true for women and men, regardless of their gender identity or sexual orientation.
Peggy Vermeesch, PhD
Crying wolf ! The homeopathic remedy lycopodium clavatum
Lycopodium clavatum is a very important remedy in the homeopathic pharmacopoeia.
It is haunted by its territory, by the concern of size and greatness. It is the remedy of the authoritarian crisis, of the separation from the symbiosis where the subject is confronted with the paternal function.
Bernard Long, M.D.
The need to acknowledge the archetypal forces within
The archetypal forces that are active deep within our unconscious call for expression, somehow, whether we ask for it or not, and whether we want it or not.
We don’t know in what form their call will come, nor to what purpose, but they will find a way into our conscious outer life. Our ego is instrumental in reducing the raw power of these archetypal forces. Peggy Vermeesch, PhD
The C.G. Jung Tower in Bollingen
Pictures of the tower in Bollingen
« From the beginning I felt the Tower as in some way a place of maturation – a maternal womb or maternal figure in which I could become what I was, what I am, and will be. It gave me a feeling as if I were being reborn in stone. It is thus a concretization of the individuation process, a memorial aere perennius » C.G. Jung
The House of C.G. Jung in Küsnacht
Jung’s house in Küsnacht can be visited
The Museum C.G. Jung House is managed by the Foundation C.G. Jung Küsnacht. It was established in 2002 with the goal of keeping the memory alive of C.G. Jung and his wife and associate, Emma Jung-Rauschenbach (1882-1955).
Map of Switzerland and information
The different places where C.G. Jung lived in Switzerland
