How do we re-integrate feminine psychology into societal and organisational design?
Shifting the psychology of the last Millennium away from manthropocentricity — part 1
When I was first in chemotherapy for cancer many years ago I decided to do a MSc in Psychology because I chose not to work but wanted to keep my mind occupied. I chose to focus on Jungian analysis as a route to solving the narrative of separation.
There are many complex aspects to the work of Jung. One which I particularly liked was that around numbers. In both Jung’s work in psychology and mythology, numbers are given importance.
Three is the symbol for urgency, incompleteness, restlessness, striving, accomplishment. As the Christian era began, from which we could say much of western economic thought originated and which has dominated the thinking in the modern age from around early middle ages to the 20th century (that we can trace), the religious trinity idea symbolised this era: Father, Son, Holy Ghost.
Four seems to be the language of the collective unconscious for peace, wholeness, completion and tranquility. In western thinking and religion, an important moment occurred in the early part of the 20th century (1948 or 49) when the Catholic church agreed that the Virgin Mary was…