Amid the tidal wave/s of views and perspectives on men and women in relation to one another stand the enduring insights of Carl Jung. Much of what he wrote feels almost too complex and too layered to be true, for truth is simple. But what he observed over the years about men and women in their archetypal difference stands. I think it stands.
One used to scratch one’s head, at least in the late ’70s, when almost every Episcopal minister one knew became a Jungian therapist, or almost did! No kidding. Talk about a tidal wave.
Now I understand a little better. Not the going “whole hog” — for the journey to health for most Jungians takes too long, like kind of forever. The therapy itself feels life long — just much too long! But the diagnosis, especially concerning women and men in primordial perspective, is brilliant. Jung didn’t make it up. He observed people, during thousands of hours of therapeutic dialogue, and his observations were acute.
In this podcast, I read a — I guess we could say — seminal passage from the Collected Works that concerns the embedded archetypes of anima and animus. What he wrote is clarifying and surgical. “Read, Mark, Learn and Inwardly Digest”.
Once the ground is laid, and it takes only three paragraphs from the master to lay the ground, we can move on to the hope of cure — God’s cure. But that comes next, in “Animotion II”. LUV U.
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