Two Birds in a Tree

X-ray of "Susanna and the Elders," Artemisia Gentileschi [Image from Kathleen Gilje ] The following are selected excerpts o...

Walking to work, and thinking about all the people who voted for Trump but claim not to be racist... who believe his promises to bring back ...

The center of the field of consciousness; the “I” of consciousness. The ego is just one complex among many but it’s very important as it org...

Jungian psychology is another such ship. Jung made a ship by creating certain hypotheses to which one can cling when one doesn't know u...

A series of dreams related by content or subject. Over a person’s life their relationship with internal content changes and grows, and these...

Interpreting the symbolism of one’s dream in order to understand the unconscious’s view of a one’s situation. This is done by both looking a...

A person’s strongest function; the one that comes easiest and therefore the one that’s the most highly developed and differentiated. The mos...

In analysis, the emotionally charged projection of unconscious contents by the analyst onto the analysand. See transference. Even if the a...

The propensity for unconscious contents to blend with and get mixed up with each other. Part of the work of analysis is to differentiate the...

Activation of an archetype or complex. E.g. feelings of vulnerability or abandonment can activate the child complex. A time-bound grouping o...