Articles for tag: Collective Unconscious

Karla News

Emotionally Sensitive Person or Emotionally Disabled Person?

When my family doctor told me over thirty years ago that I was an emotionally oversensitive person, little did I know how much those three words would be a part of my life and my work. As a former support group facilitator, teacher, and director of a private school, I have worked with many emotionally ...

The Healing Power of Mandalas

Annually, approximately 5 million Americans are diagnosed with severe and long lasting mental illness that affects their thoughts, feelings, work and relationships. For this reason, it is important to explore alternative therapeutic tools. Currently, mandalas are used by therapists to enhance and supplement western medicine. Mandalas are often used with psychiatric patients. However, mandalas can ...

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Dream Analysis According to Freud and Jung

Dreams have fascinated humanity since ancient times. But Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung were probably the first to come up with specific theories about why we dream, and even more – what our dreams mean. The theories of Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) Freud, who has been called the father of modern psychology, believed that all human ...

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Carl Jung and the Collective Unconscious

JUNG Jung provides theorists and critics with a source for the myths and plots common across various literary traditions. He does this with his concept of the universal symbol. For Jung a symbol is an imitation of a meaning beyond our levels of articulation. It is the representation of an idea inherent in man’s mind ...