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The Self in Historical Light - Iamblichus versus Porphyry
Description: The Neoplatonic and the modern ideals of Self are discussed
and criticized, such as the Freudian primal Self and the post-Jungian
puerile Self.
http://mlwi.magix.net/iamblichus.htm ________________________________________________________________
Critique of Individuation
Description: Individuation as the process of maturation is connected
with the way of the spirit. The ego abandonment of spiritual tradition
must be taken seriously.
http://mlwi.magix.net/individuation.htm ________________________________________________________________
The Boardgame Mandala
Description: Board game patterns portray cultural transformations in the collective psyche in the form of mandala shapes pertaining to the whole numbers, such as three and four.
http://mlwi.magix.net/boardgam1.htm ________________________________________________________________
The Upward and Downward Paths of the Spirit
Description: Psychology's one-sided focus on the integration of the
unconscious must be counterbalanced by a traditional notion of spiritual ascent.
http://mlwi.magix.net/projection.htm ________________________________________________________________
Ethical Complementarity - a Complementarian Moral Theory
Description: Complementarity, as employed in quantum physics, is
relevant to moral philosophy. The moral of the heart is complementary to
a view that equates evil with disorder.
http://mlwi.magix.net/morality.htm ________________________________________________________________
Spirit and Psyche ~ Complementary Paradigms
Description: Various spiritual traditions are discussed, including
Hermeticism. Psychology must accommodate spiritual transcendence as counterweight to the worldly perspective.
http://mlwi.magix.net/spiritual_paradigm.htm ________________________________________________________________
The Spiritual Method - complementation as spiritual writing
Description: Complementation, as opposed to psychological integration, underlies a spiritual technique that requires a toning down of dominant consciousness.
http://mlwi.magix.net/spiritualmethod.htm ________________________________________________________________
Bergman themes - leitmotives in the films of Ingmar Bergman
Description: A discussion of central themes in Ingmar Bergman's films.
The article discusses social and existential misery and its spiritual
remedy.
http://mlwi.magix.net/bergman.htm ________________________________________________________________
Jung and Swedenborg: modern Neoplatonists
Description: Carl Jung's indebtedness to Neoplatonism and Swedish mystic Emanuel Swedenborg is demonstrated. The ideal of worldly fulfilment is criticized.
http://mlwi.magix.net/neoplatonism.htm ________________________________________________________________
Complementation in Psychology
Description: 'Complementation' is the opposite of 'integration'. It
means the reversion of psychic libido into an unconscious state
associated with spirituality.
http://mlwi.magix.net/complementation.htm ________________________________________________________________
Critique of Synchronicity
Description: Carl Jung's idea of synchronicity is criticized. A concept
of Self as both worldly and spiritual ought to be substituted for the
unitarian model.
http://mlwi.magix.net/synchronicity.htm ________________________________________________________________
Jungian concepts in the light of quantum physics
Description: About quantum physics and whether or not it sustains a
Platonic worldview, the 'psychoid' archetype, and synchronicity. The
nature of mind is discussed.
http://mlwi.magix.net/quantumbrain.htm ________________________________________________________________
The Puer Aeternus - underminer of civilization
Description: The puer aeternus (Peter Pan) is a mythological image that
also denotes a mother complex connected with psychological rootlessness.
http://mlwi.magix.net/puer.htm ________________________________________________________________
Complementation in fairytales
Description: Interpretation of a fairy tale (The Golden Blackbird)
following 'psychological complementation', having to do with
augmentation of unconscious life.
http://mlwi.magix.net/blackbird.htm ________________________________________________________________
The Dark Shadow Of The Quaternity - a critique of the Jungian unitarian Self
Description: A critique of Carl Jung's Self model centering on his
dreams and visions. 'Complementation' is forwarded as counterpart to psychological integration.
http://mlwi.magix.net/crucifixion.htm ________________________________________________________________
The Complementarian Self - the Twofold Self
Description: The psychological Self is both this-worldly and
otherworldly following the principle of complementarity. It coincides
with the theological view of Christ.
http://mlwi.magix.net/compself.htm ________________________________________________________________
The Blood Sacrifice - its symbolism and psychology
Description: Victimization is analyzed as an archaic method of ego
emancipation by which the transgressor's unconscious suffering is
transferred to the victim.
http://mlwi.magix.net/bloodsac.htm ________________________________________________________________
Symbolic Poverty - on the capacity of relating symbolically with life
Description: Absent the symbolical relation to 'dark nature' and natural
evil, Western man eschews suffering, finding appeal in idealistic
illusions of earthly welfare.
http://mlwi.magix.net/symbolic1.htm ________________________________________________________________
An intrusion of matriarchal consciousness
Description: The collective mind is reverting to matriarchal
conceptions, abandoning traditional Western values that allow for 'differences'. It leads to cultural neurosis.
http://mlwi.magix.net/matriarchal.htm ________________________________________________________________
Dependency in the analytic relationship
Description: Three cases of psychological dependency, in analysands of
C.G. Jung, are investigated. Their dreams show that personal
emancipation is pivotal.
http://mlwi.magix.net/dependency.htm ________________________________________________________________
The animistic archetypal nature of the unconscious
Description: The unconscious has an animistic structure. Therefore
Platonic Forms or Jungian archetypes are essential concepts to have
knowledge of the unconscious.
http://mlwi.magix.net/animism.htm ________________________________________________________________
The Burning Issue: Race and Racialism
Description: Racial strife continues. Research finds that racial
awareness is innate, which explains why multiculturalism and
'colour-blindness' are ineffective.
http://mlwi.magix.net/racial_problem.htm ________________________________________________________________
Insights into the Race Issue
Description: Is 'race' still relevant for understanding the human
condition? Refusal to acknowledge racial differences engenders an
unconscious ethnoracial complex.
http://mlwi.magix.net/raceinsight.htm ________________________________________________________________
Understanding European psychology
Description: The mind of the typical modern European is very much a
product of medieval times. The Middle Ages has endowed us with valuable
mental gifts.
http://mlwi.magix.net/interiority.htm ________________________________________________________________
A Critique of Feminism - on Women's Collective Shadow
Description: Women harbour a secret wish to remain in dependency,
subordinated to a strong man. It is exacerbated by the feminist call to
cast off feminine nature.
http://mlwi.magix.net/feminismcrit.htm ________________________________________________________________
Two psychoanalytic methods
Description: Psychoanalysis ought not always strive to resolve the
unconscious problem. A higher expression must instead be sought for the 'irresolvable complex'.
http://mlwi.magix.net/twoanalyses.htm ________________________________________________________________
Mysterium Iniquitatis - the mystery of evil
Description: By an archaic means of ego emancipation, the transgressor's unconscious suffering is transferred to the victim. It aims at
ego-empowerment.
http://mlwi.magix.net/iniquitatis.htm ________________________________________________________________
Cognitive Science and the Archetypal Unconscious
Description: Can cognitive science and its notion of innate unconscious metaphor inform Jungian psychology? Transcendental philosophy is criticized.
http://mlwi.magix.net/cognitive.htm ________________________________________________________________
Thanatos - a contribution to the understanding of the collective shadow
Description: Thanatos (the death drive) is an inner compulsion that
protects against unconscious wholeness during which the borders of
personality are dangerously dissolved.
http://mlwi.magix.net/thanatos.htm ________________________________________________________________
Complementaris Mundus - a complementarian metaphysic
Description: The world is both material and spiritual. Yet, in
accordance with the complementarity principle, it is not experiential as
a dual world.
http://mlwi.magix.net/dualmetaphysic.htm ________________________________________________________________
The real meaning of the motif of the dying god
Description: The mythic theme of the dying god depicts the mystery of incarnation, symbolic of the propitious and liberating function of
conscious realization.
http://mlwi.magix.net/archetypes.htm ________________________________________________________________
The Unconscious Spiritual Nature
Description: What is the nature of 'spirit'? From dreams we can deduce
that it ever searches to manifest via the unconscious, through
mysterious symbol.
http://mlwi.magix.net/spiritfish.htm ________________________________________________________________
The Sphinxlike Unconscious
Description: Like the enigmatic sphinx, the unconscious is ultimately unknowable. There is inside us a longing for archaic wholeness,
equatable with primary narcissism.
http://mlwi.magix.net/sphinx.htm ________________________________________________________________
The psychodynamics of terrorism
Description: Terrorism springs from an archaic psychic economy of sin transference. Its connection with the death drive and the historical
blood sacrifice is discussed.
http://mlwi.magix.net/terror.htm ________________________________________________________________
Hero worship
Description: The hero archetype provides the impetus for personal
emancipation. Conflictingly, it gives rise to hubristic expansionism, to
the detriment of heartfelt values.
http://mlwi.magix.net/hero.htm ________________________________________________________________
Critique of Neo-Hegelianism
Description: Critique is directed against Hegelianism and its
continuation in Marxist and postmodern philosophy. The myth of modernity
severs our roots in the natural order.
http://mlwi.magix.net/beastrev.htm ________________________________________________________________
The penitential disease - neither psychic nor somatic?
Description: There are many handicapping illnesses that defy
explanation. It is suggested that these spring from existential stress
present in the collective unconscious psyche.
http://mlwi.magix.net/penitential.htm ________________________________________________________________
Critique of idealistic phenomenologism
Description: The philosophy of idealistic phenomenology has a
continuance in post-Jungian theory, which continues to peddle
irrationality.
http://mlwi.magix.net/romanyshyn.htm ________________________________________________________________
The Romantic Flight from Reality
Description: In 'Misinterpretation of Man', Paul Roubiczek formulates a valuable critique of Romantic times and thought, highly topical for
today's world.
http://mlwi.magix.net/roubiczek.htm ________________________________________________________________
Critique of Archetypal Psychology
Description: James Hillman's Archetypal Psychology reinterprets the
archetype according to phenomenology and furthers an amoral and
aesthetic worldview.
http://mlwi.magix.net/hillmcrit.htm ________________________________________________________________
Winnicott's Dream - a Critique of Winnicott's Thought as a Form of
Mystical Narcissism
Description: Donald Winnicott's theory mirrors typical features of the narcissistic disorder, such as recurrent destruction and subject-object
merger.
http://mlwi.magix.net/winni.htm ________________________________________________________________
About group narcissism
Description: Group narcissism is discussed. The notions of a 'healthy' narcissism and a 'natural narcissistic spectrum' are criticized.
http://mlwi.magix.net/groupnarc.htm ________________________________________________________________
The Golden Blackbird
Description: An interpretation of fairy tale 'The Golden Blackbird'
according to Marie-Louise von Franz's method.
http://mlwi.magix.net/golden.htm ________________________________________________________________
A constructive critique of the structural model in psychoanalysis
Description: Critique is directed against Freud's structural model that generalizes an Oedipal pattern. The psyche is built around many more
complexes.
http://mlwi.magix.net/compstruc.htm ________________________________________________________________
Critique of Intersubjectivity
Description: Intersubjectivity implies an involvement on the unconscious
level. But psychotherapy should not work toward a relative merger of our conscious personalities.
http://mlwi.magix.net/intersubj.htm ________________________________________________________________
The ongoing self-destruction of psychoanalysis
Description: The theoretical chaos in psychoanalysis depends on an
insufficient metaphysical groundwork. Empirical science must be
buttressed by a metaphysical foundation.
http://mlwi.magix.net/destruc.htm ________________________________________________________________
The case of "Dora"
Description: An attempt at reinterpretation of Freud's famous case of
'Dora'.
http://mlwi.magix.net/dora.htm ________________________________________________________________
Edinger – the ego prophet
Description: In Edward F. Edinger's analysis of religious and alchemical
themes the symbolic value is depleted as symbols are subjected to
onesided intellectualization.
http://mlwi.magix.net/edeng.htm ________________________________________________________________
Psychoanalysis at the crossroad
Description: To avoid conceptual isolation, a clarification of metapsychological assumptions is called for. Knowledge of the
unconscious belongs in public consciousness.
http://mlwi.magix.net/psychemp.htm ________________________________________________________________
Critique of Conflict Theory
Description: Charles Brenner's 'Conflict Theory' is neurotic, as such.
It cannot function as a model of the normal psyche, where conscious and unconscious are separated.
http://mlwi.magix.net/brenner.htm ________________________________________________________________
The Limits of Science
Description: A scientific outlook requires that we accept metaphysical postulates insufficient for creating a full-fledged worldview. Ultimate
truth must be sought within.
http://mlwi.magix.net/science.htm ________________________________________________________________
The Plastic Preachers - on inferior psychology and religion
Description: The modern collective spirit has brought forth a
personality capable of transforming any genuine subject matter into
plastic. These are the false preachers.
http://mlwi.magix.net/plastic.htm ________________________________________________________________
The Morphic Deception
Description: Pseudoscientific New Age philosophy, advanced by thinkers
such as Rupert Sheldrake and Ken Wilber, is a blind alley in the world
of theory.
http://mlwi.magix.net/sheldrake.htm ________________________________________________________________
Creativity - the unconscious source of the creative spirit
Description: There exists an unconscious form of creativity that
complements our daytime activity -- a spiritual power that ever searches
to manifest itself in human life.
http://mlwi.magix.net/creativity.htm ________________________________________________________________
Rock Music Lyric Interpretation
Description: An attempt at interpretation of rock lyrics: 'The Hill and Hibiscus Flowers' by Steve Harley.
http://mlwi.magix.net/the_hill.htm ________________________________________________________________
Colour is objective mind - the grass really is green and the heavens
really are blue
Description: Critique is directed against lingering philosophical
Idealism and its counterpart, namely rationalistic physicalism.
http://mlwi.magix.net/objcolour.htm ________________________________________________________________
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