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Forging our Individual and National Character: The Images of Anselm Kiefer as a Portal into the Nature of Conscience
Unity of Portland 4525 SE Stark, PortlandJung offered us a compelling theory about the development of conscience. He suggested that conscience relies not only upon communal mores, but also upon an inner voice, upon one’s connection to the archetypal realms. He noted that these realms are often difficult to bear but that with analytic fortitude one could turn towards our shadows, ... Read more
The Personal Myth in Turbulent Times
Unity of Portland 4525 SE Stark, PortlandIn 1913 Jung asked himself this question: “What is my myth?,” and realized that he could not answer. Can we? First we have to understand what is meant by myth, and then what the question itself means. Why we have to even ask this question is still another question. What is the cultural context in ... Read more
Psychic Birth and Rebirth through Analysis
Unity of Portland 4525 SE Stark, Portland“The neurosis is as a rule a pathological, one-sided development of the personality, the imperceptible beginnings of which can be traced back almost indefinitely into the earliest years of childhood. Only a very arbitrary judgment can say where the neurosis actually begins. If we were to relegate the determining cause as far back as the ... Read more
