Foundation of the Self
To understand what is happening in the world today, one must try and get into the objective concrete. The narcissist's rigid mind is a...
Stages of the Hero`s Journey
The Dark Side of a Spiritual Awakening
We have all watched with enthusiasm and intrigue “Luke Skywalker “entering into the realms of a “New hope...
The Scapegoat Complex
Originally the scapegoat was a human/animal victim chosen for sacrifice to the underworld to appropriate God`s anger and to heal the community as a...
The Eden Project
An ego so fragile must fortify itself in impoverished idealisation and hubris. How quickly it rationalises its thousand adaptations, threatened by the pullback and...
Swamplands
The split, the discrepancy between what we long for and what we suppose are limitations of Western imagination, the day we discover and grieve...
Monster`s Journey
A hero ventures forth from the world of the common day into a region of the supernatural, where fabulous forces are encountered, and a...
Fear of the Feminine
The first stage of female and male development is that of psychic unity characterised by the symbol of the uroboric serpent, forming a closed...
Resolution of Opposites
The basic drama a person experiences in the collective psyche is the separating and synthesis of psychic opposites. In every war, a political faction...
Transcendental Function
The Transcendental function (TF) bridges the conscious and unconscious. The TF is the land of uncertainty, and disorientation, buffeted by forces of the unconscious....
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Narcissistic Wounds
The narcissistic child has omnipotent, controlling and tyrannical fantasies of controlling his mother (object), which are part of normal development but need to be...
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Character Analysis
Very few clients can accurately analyse at the onset of therapy, as the threat of ego fragmentation makes analysis hard. The neurotic character does...
Restoration of the Self
Early on, the parents will supportively mirror the strivings of the child’s grandiose self and not threaten their idealization as parents, which is the...
Separation Anxiety
During the symbiotic phase, the child has a cognitive experience of “oneness”, where the mother gratifies the child's needs, unaware of the mother being...
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Culture of Narcissism
The inverted narc projects onto the actual narcissist through the very primitive projective identification ego defence. An innate primal fear of disintegration (psychological death)...
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Imposter Syndrome
Identity is an all-encompassing sense of self, not fixed, handed down and developed unconsciously. Something shaped and determined, reflected in passion and behaviour, and...
