Hauntings: Dispelling the Ghosts Who Run Our Lives

finally, are within us.

William Faulkner, who once opined that “the past is not dead, it is not even past.”

Since a complex has a quantum of energy, charged by history, it always manifests in the body, perhaps as a constriction of the throat, a flutter in the solar plexus, tightening of the muscles, and it always floods the moment with an extra charge of affect.

the persistence of the past.

Jung once observed that each therapist must ask the question: What task is this person's neurosis helping him or her avoid?

The present is haunted by the archetypal dynamics which remind us that any story untold is an unconscious present.

is that all of our stuck places track back to the twin existential threats to our

This is why Jung observed that the greatest burden the child must bear is the unlived life of the parent.

survival and well-being: abandonment and being overwhelmed.