by thisjungian | Jan 31, 2019 | Cultural Currents
Football is a uniquely American sport with millions of fans, heroic teams, and stadiums reminiscent of colosseums. As the Super Bowl approaches – television’s most-watched show – Lisa, Joseph, and Deb consider the archetypal underpinnings that contribute to...
by thisjungian | Nov 22, 2018 | Cultural Currents
The archetype of the scapegoat goes back to the ancient Hebrew ritual of using two goats to expiate the sins of the tribe. Once blamed for the wrongdoings and misfortunes of the community, the goats were driven out into the desert carrying the evil with them thus...
by thisjungian | Nov 15, 2018 | Cultural Currents, Personal Issues
Lisa, Joseph, and Deb circumambulate the difficult issue of gender reassignment. They discuss the significance of teen girls wishing to transition and the current tendency to foreclose the meaning of this and move rapidly into medical procedures, a process of...
by thisjungian | Oct 25, 2018 | Cultural Currents
We consider literalism a normal childhood state – children’s literalism can be funny and charming. We first grow into the ability to understand metaphors and later develop a capacity to conceptualize symbols with various levels of meaning. Later in life...
by thisjungian | Aug 14, 2018 | Cultural Currents
As three analysts, we explore the archetype of “the gun” from a Jungian psychological view and seek to understand it’s influence in the collective psyche of Americans. Guns play a big role in American mythology from the American Revolution to cowboys and...
by thisjungian | Aug 14, 2018 | Cultural Currents
How can we understand the superficial label assigned to masculine behavior in today’s meme-driven style of discourse? Here’s the dream we analyze: “I am walking on what seems to be mountainous hills. A little ahead of me is what feels like my teenage...