The Feminine Within: Man’s Anima Development

In his “The Archetypes of the Collective Unconscious” Carl Jung writes extensively about the anima concept or archetype which he considered of paramount practical importance to the psychotherapist. He reminds the reader that his notion of anima, a…

The Psychology and Mythology of War

I had just finished a final draft of a war novel, “When War Becomes Us,” when Russia invaded Ukraine and turned the world map upside down. Russia has been accurately labeled a criminal, pariah nation and much of the West has shut Russia out. Ukraine has responded…

Religion and the Archetype of the Feminine: A Perspective

It was just another August morning with me waiting for my green tea to brew. Out of the blue I started singing the Lord’s Prayer in Latin: “Pater Noster, qui es in chaelis, santificetur nomen tuum …” As if on schedule and on cue…

“Motherhood: Facing and Finding Yourself”

For a number of reasons, I was drawn recently to a Zoom program on “Motherhood” at the C.G. Jung Foundation in New York City. With two children and five grandchildren I have learned a little about what women give up on giving birth. The lesson becomes…

Russia in the Rear View Mirror

The current, brutal Russian invasion of Ukraine sent me back to a presentation I gave before a subcommittee of the Foreign Relations Committee on ways to assist Russia after the formal breakup of the Soviet Union in December 1991. Senator Joseph Biden headed that committee…

Giant Law Firms, Trump and the Corruption of Justice

I have enjoyed the drum-roll of books about Donald Trump’s antics when he was president. I really did want to know whether Trump was seriously thinking about firing son-in-law Jared and daughter Ivanka. There are endless treats such as…

For My Brother

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Desi McCullagh,

Oct. 15, 1940 — Jan. 21, 2014

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My mother left for Dublin

Right before the London Blitz

Dreaming a Second Coming

The dream opens at full compass, touting some big, important book that I sensed was the bible, though that term was not explicit. At first the essence of the dream seemed to be about grammar, usage, punctuation as well as revising and upgrading old lines, meaning and prophecies. These…

Dreaming the Mother Archetype

In the dream the earth seems to awaken, then uncover

A form, a buried memory, half-forgotten theatrics

And endless pages of notes and lines of memory

Mad Cow Culture: The Reckoning

Mad Cow has again crawled out of the slime

Ripe with political antics, stinking of crime

Delivered dead by a political wave