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Why Do Liberals Lose So Goddamn Always?
A Progressive Critique of Political Messaging, Economic Misunderstanding, and Voter Psychology A rerun of sorts, I know. I have posted on this subject often but that’s because this is a subject that is on my mind a lot. Now, 100+ days into trump’s second term I find myself wondering yet again why have democrats and…
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American Political Alchemy: A Jungian Analysis of Republican and Democratic Transformations
Can the political shifts of the past 60 years in the United States mirror the transformative journey of the psyche described by Edward Edinger in Anatomy of the Psyche? Edinger’s work, grounded in Jungian alchemy, maps psychological development through symbolic stages of transformation such as calcinatio, solutio, coagulatio, and mortificatio. Though originally applied to individual psychological processes, these alchemical stages…
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The Alchemical Shadow of Trump’s 2025 Presidency: A Jungian Critique of Spiritual Dissonance in American Politics
and because we live in the world we live in, let’s see what AI had to say on the subject of the current administration Keywords: Jungian psychology, Trump 2025 policies, Christian nationalism, political shadow, alchemy and politics, immigration policy, anti-Christian policies, spiritual hypocrisy, American collective unconscious In the unfolding narrative of American politics, President Donald…
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The Nation in Mortificatio: Signs of Collective Disintegration
I remember when trump was elected the first time a snippet of a documentary I had seen years ago occurred to me. It was an interview with Marie Louise von Franz (one of Jung’s famous students). The interviewer asked what Ms. von Franz thought had happen in Germany prior to WWII. Her response was simply…
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As little as possible
How do you use social media? I only have social media to monitor my sons’ music career and to try and promote my as yet to be published (or finished) book, and mostly I’m incognito online. Being a clinical psychologist and an old guy I have seen the damage social media has caused in our…
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Gratitude, Growth, and the Psychology of Connection: Celebrating 215+ Subscribers
As I sit down to write this, I’m filled with a quiet awe—our community has just crossed 215 subscribers. That number may seem modest in the world of viral content and influencer metrics, but for me, it’s something else entirely. It’s sacred. It’s real. And it reflects a shared curiosity, a hunger for depth, and…