A hero ventures forth from the world of the common day into a region of the supernatural, where fabulous forces are encountered, and a...

The first stage of female and male development is that of psychic unity characterised by the symbol of the uroboric serpent, forming a closed...

The basic drama a person experiences in the collective psyche is the separating and synthesis of psychic opposites. In every war, a political faction...

The Transcendental function (TF) bridges the conscious and unconscious. The TF is the land of uncertainty, and disorientation, buffeted by forces of the unconscious....

In society, the diminishment of one's masculinity is equated with losing the male sex organ (castration anxiety ), while the attainment of manhood is...

Childhood is a hostage situation, where either child has no control over the way our caregivers parent us or fail to. Some parents have...

Man is born free and yet everywhere he is in chains The universal appeal of science reveals no permanent truth and cannot answer the...

Very few clients can accurately analyse at the onset of therapy, as the threat of ego fragmentation makes analysis hard. The neurotic character does...

The structure of the borderline is split, with one part unconscious and one part conscious. Induced guilt and bodily tension and breathing constrictions lead...

The death mother wields a fierce, violent and corrosive power, rampant in our society now. When the death mother (Medusa) penetrates both psyche and...