Sublime

Il se consacre dorénavant entièrement à sa vie intérieure, à ses recherches personnelles et à sa clientèle privée. Nous avons vu que, depuis l’enfance, Jung percevait en lui deux personnalités. La première est celle de son moi conscient : rationnelle, logique, extravertie et tournée vers la réalisation sociale. La seconde est celle de son inconscie

All problems are interpersonal relationship problems. This is a concept that runs to the very root of Adlerian psychology. If all interpersonal relationships were gone from this world, which is to say if one were alone in the universe and all other people were gone, all manner of problems would disappear.

Charles Segal, a recently retired Harvard professor of classics who taught my Greek Tragedy course, spoke about how the Oedipus trilogy reminded him of Erik Erikson’s three stages of development. In youth, Professor Segal said, a person struggles to figure out who they are in relation to their parents (a real head scratcher in Oedipus’s case). In m

I used to get very sad and lonely whenever my wife was away for more than a day. If she traveled for a weekend or, God forbid, a week, I would feel bereft and depressed. Once I learned IFS, I realized that these feelings were coming from a Deprived Child Part of me who was left alone in an incubator for weeks after I was born prematurely and then d

Dr. frankl, author-psychiatrist, sometimes asks his patients who suffer from a multitude of torments great and small, “Why do you not commit suicide?” From their answers he can often find the guide-line for his psychotherapy: in one life there is love for one’s children to tie to; in another life, a talent to be used; in a third, perhaps only linge

When he talks to the students for hours about research and discoveries and as they share conversation and laughter and beer, while I move in and out of the rooms supplying food and care, I feel like an outsider. And that is what I am. I may be wife, life partner, mother to all his children, but I do not fire him up like they do and perhaps that is

Au fond, Jung entend apporter des réponses à tous ceux qui ne sont plus nourris par les religions traditionnelles, à commencer par le christianisme : « Je ne m’adresse pas du tout d’ailleurs aux bienheureux possesseurs de la foi, mais à tous ces nombreux chercheurs, pour lesquels la lumière est éteinte, le mystère englouti et Dieu mort1. »