The Effects of the Absent Father on Daughters

This seminar topic was of considerable interest to me because a number of daughters in my family have endured absent fathers either due to war or abandonment. I’ll explore some biographic issues at the end of this piece. First, more details about the…

Jung’s “Transformation of the God Image”

In some respect the life work of psychologist C.G. Jung was his study of how the “God image” in culture and the individual psyche was transformed as the world entered a dangerous and disruptive period in the early 1900s. This theme was explored in a recent…

The Psychological Effects of Screens on the Young Psyche

This issue was addressed in a recent zoom presentation given at the New York C.G. Jung Foundation by San Francisco Jungian psychologist, Robert Tyminski. He traces the psychological effects of video games to research conducted in…

“Anaclitic Depression and the Arc and Archetype of the Feminine”

Recently I attended this zoom session given by Jungian psychologist Dr. Janice Maxwell, courtesy of the C.G. Jung Foundation in New York City. In the interest of clarity, “Anaclitic” comes from a Greek word that means…

Bringing Psyche Home

During the day I walk around the sun

Counting steps like some longitudinal

Freak, mainly on my fingers bent

With age, a condition named after

In the Hands of the Feminine

In the dream I am in the hands

Of two women, perhaps on a beach,

A couch, or a bench on a country lane,

Fully clothed as at theater or public

Dreaming My Name Back

For my father

I seem to be in a low-overhead room

Like a roughed-out Navy mess deck

Populated by a throng in dungarees

Children on the Train

In the dream children adorn

A miniature train leaving the station

And traveling into dangerous traffic

Ungoverned by red lights or police.

The Mother of All Dreams

The dream seems to order its own ripe

Theatrics after what seems like a merciless

Induction round sprawled out on the night stage