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“Statements by men on the subject of female psychology suffer principally form the fact that the projection of unconscious femininity is always strongest where critical judgment is most needed, that is, where a man is involved emotionally” C.G. Jung

Here I want to try something new and move away from only using material directly from Jung to talk about one of the most surprising (and successful) movies of the year: Barbie. Looking through a Jungian lens there are many different facets to explore and to utilise to explain concepts and ideas of analytical psychology. Caution: There will be tons of spoilers. I recommend watching the movie before the podcast.

“At first, the Self is always something simple, something little, or cheap. It turns out, however, that it’s the king or even the savior. It is the crown, the phoenix, the saint, the savior, even the deity. It is the center toward which everything is oriented” C.G. Jung

Life moves in circles, but what is in the center? Jung saw a fixed point in the psyche that one revolves around closing in more and more with time. Is there something like an invisible hand guiding one’s actions and thoughts? Join to find out more!

“The shadow is on the one side regrettable and reprehensible weakness, on the other side healthy instinctivity and the prerequisite for higher consciousness.” C.G. Jung

There is a hidden side to everything, but sometimes what is hidden from our sight is the most obvious to other people. While the shadow is always right next to us we tend to find it the fastest at other people. Join to find out more about one of the most famous concepts of Jung and why evil always seems to be on the other side of the Rhine.

“When somebody has an archetypal experience, he gets one hell of an inflation and is inebriated by power. That's also the reason why Nietzsche was a megalomanic.” C.G. Jung

While we think to be always the master of our thoughts and actions, there are other forces lingering in the background, gripping people and pushing them along. Being driven does not need to mean to be in the driver’s seat.

“It is the goal of individuation to reach the sense of the continuation of one’s life through the ages. It gives one a feeling of eternity on this earth.” C.G. Jung

Join to find out what’s happening in the psyche as it grows, even though the body decay. How much free will is possible when the world within, the world without, the personal and collective all come together in the individual in the eternal struggle of becoming one’s Self.

“Considered form the standpoint of realism, the symbol is of course not an external truth, but it is psychologically true, for it was and is the bridge to all that is best in humanity.” C.G. Jung

Bridging the opposites, connecting them through a common ground, this is the beginning of a symbol. They can be for one’s moment, one’s life or even for all humankind. Join to learn more about the thing between consciousness and the unconscious: The Third

“When someone is able to perform the art of touch on the archetypal, he can play on the souls of People like on the strings of a piano.” C.G. Jung

Everything that is created and endures through time is for Jung a manifestation of our collective unconscious. The layer of our psyche that connects all human beings, through space and time. The people who can access this layer and bring forth its fruits we call artists and if they can foresee the ebbs and flows of mass psychology, we call them prophets. Join for a unique view on what creates culture and what culture creates in us.

“Two people see the same object, but they never see it in such a way that the images they receive are absolutely identical” - C.G. Jung

For Jung, everything we experience is filtered through our psyche. What we experience is all but objective and it can tell us so much about ourselves. This event will deal with this topic and what it means to be subjective as an subject.

“night after night our dreams practice philosophy on their own account” C.G.Jung

There are few things in life as subjective as one’s dreams. Influenced by Freud’s use of dreams as an analytical tool in psychotherapy, Jung spent his life listening to and analyzing the dreams of his patients. While Freud saw in dreams as simple falsification of wishes, saw Jung the modest immediate feedback of the unconscious and the direct path to our past, fairy tales, mythology and religion.

“These zodiacal signs are symbols that have been projected onto the sky form times immemorial, and probably reflect the structures of the unconscious” C.G. Jung

Jung was always interested in all products of human culture, the older, the better. And some of the oldest is astrology, the “oldest form of psychology”, as he says. But there is more to it, a factor of time for which the unconscious has a very keen orientation. An orientation that is better understood in the East than in the West. Join to find out more.