Tag: psychology
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The Unexpected Burden of Aging: Planning Life Around Health
One of the more unexpected—and frankly weirder—realities of growing older is the quiet but relentless way health begins to dominate every decision. It’s not dramatic at first. You notice that certain foods don’t sit quite right anymore, or that staying out late means feeling like you’ve been hit by a truck the next morning. But…
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Title: The Threefold Self: Speaker, Listener, Witness
Every thought you have is not just a fleeting internal whisper. It is a dialogue—and more importantly, a triologue. In every conscious moment, there are three roles simultaneously at play within you: the speaker, the listener, and the witness. Understanding these internal presences can transform how you relate to your mind, your decisions, and ultimately,…
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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…