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@innerearth.bsky.social
Advanced psychoanalytic candidate in Jungian training.
Advocates leaving pessimism for better days.
Aspiring to be "decently unconscious".
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Advocates leaving pessimism for better days.
Aspiring to be "decently unconscious".
🌞 innerearth.substack.com
🌚 jungiantoronto.com
Israeli human rights organisations B'Tselem and Physicians for Human Rights: Israel is committing genocide.
July 28, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Israeli human rights organisations B'Tselem and Physicians for Human Rights: Israel is committing genocide.
This from Neil Postman's Building a Bridge to the 18th Century:
July 18, 2025 at 1:41 PM
This from Neil Postman's Building a Bridge to the 18th Century:
I have been thinking about this observation of Jung's—how well he describes the West as a "miasmal swamp" veiled by an autoerotic cloud of "moral incense".
June 23, 2025 at 9:38 PM
I have been thinking about this observation of Jung's—how well he describes the West as a "miasmal swamp" veiled by an autoerotic cloud of "moral incense".
I wrote this 17 years ago, in my previous life as a journalist, when John McCain was à la the Beach Boys chorusing "Bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iran". Psychoanalytically, I would now add that present hypocrisies are paranoic reaction formations, for it is Israel that doesn't coact the IAEA, NPT, etc.
June 16, 2025 at 6:49 PM
I wrote this 17 years ago, in my previous life as a journalist, when John McCain was à la the Beach Boys chorusing "Bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iran". Psychoanalytically, I would now add that present hypocrisies are paranoic reaction formations, for it is Israel that doesn't coact the IAEA, NPT, etc.
Astrologers Austin Coppock and @chrisbrennan.bsky.social on the @astrologypodcast.bsky.social on April 1, 2025.
June 15, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Astrologers Austin Coppock and @chrisbrennan.bsky.social on the @astrologypodcast.bsky.social on April 1, 2025.
If hypernormalisation keeps rendering facts immaterial, crocodile-like creatures will eventually be swimming in the shallow seas of England and palm trees will be populating Antarctica.
June 6, 2025 at 8:44 PM
If hypernormalisation keeps rendering facts immaterial, crocodile-like creatures will eventually be swimming in the shallow seas of England and palm trees will be populating Antarctica.
The always sensible Gabrielle Rifkind—a British group analyst and mediator.
March 28, 2025 at 8:56 PM
The always sensible Gabrielle Rifkind—a British group analyst and mediator.
An important insight from Ursula Franklin, the late Quaker educator: Conscientious objection should apply equally to how taxes are purposed—it ought not to be assumed that public revenue is available for war or war in advance, in the form of standing armies.
March 2, 2025 at 12:10 AM
An important insight from Ursula Franklin, the late Quaker educator: Conscientious objection should apply equally to how taxes are purposed—it ought not to be assumed that public revenue is available for war or war in advance, in the form of standing armies.
Munther Isaac: "Christ is still under the rubble..."
December 25, 2024 at 1:10 PM
Munther Isaac: "Christ is still under the rubble..."
T. M. Luhrmann's How God Becomes Real turns belief on its head by arguing that it is 'kindled' through attention and practice—the *how* of real-making. "This is not an atheist's book. It is not a believer's book. It is an anthropologist's book and a work of the anthropology of mind..." #Books
December 23, 2024 at 10:17 PM
T. M. Luhrmann's How God Becomes Real turns belief on its head by arguing that it is 'kindled' through attention and practice—the *how* of real-making. "This is not an atheist's book. It is not a believer's book. It is an anthropologist's book and a work of the anthropology of mind..." #Books
Not to mention Jung's advocacy of a training analysis—"one of the many merits of the Zurich school", according to Freud.
December 1, 2024 at 5:58 PM
Not to mention Jung's advocacy of a training analysis—"one of the many merits of the Zurich school", according to Freud.
15 ways in which Jung anticipated later psychoanalytic developments—as outlined by Andrew Samuels in Jung and the Post-Jungians.
December 1, 2024 at 5:56 PM
15 ways in which Jung anticipated later psychoanalytic developments—as outlined by Andrew Samuels in Jung and the Post-Jungians.
The Peasants, an animated adaptation of Władysław Reymont's 1904-09 novel, is a searing portrait of misogynistic scapegoatting, somewhat similar to Lars von Trier's Dogville.
November 27, 2024 at 8:56 PM
The Peasants, an animated adaptation of Władysław Reymont's 1904-09 novel, is a searing portrait of misogynistic scapegoatting, somewhat similar to Lars von Trier's Dogville.
When the world appears like one brawling clusterfuck and I'm mobbed by gloom-ridden predictions, I reach for this perennial salve via Alan Watts.
November 6, 2024 at 9:15 PM
When the world appears like one brawling clusterfuck and I'm mobbed by gloom-ridden predictions, I reach for this perennial salve via Alan Watts.
This seemingly AI image has the emotion, interrelations and values of a dream. Powerful. Poignant. Urgent.
November 6, 2023 at 4:55 PM
This seemingly AI image has the emotion, interrelations and values of a dream. Powerful. Poignant. Urgent.
Max Weber knew a thing or two.
October 5, 2023 at 8:53 PM
Max Weber knew a thing or two.
As Renos Papadopolous argues, the default assumption that traumatisation is self-evident can be more harmful than therapeutic.
September 18, 2023 at 10:45 PM
As Renos Papadopolous argues, the default assumption that traumatisation is self-evident can be more harmful than therapeutic.
Also, having just read it now: Shamdasani's A Woman Called Frank, which is a wonderful rehabilitation of "the great Ur-case of Jungian psychology".
September 13, 2023 at 5:13 PM
Also, having just read it now: Shamdasani's A Woman Called Frank, which is a wonderful rehabilitation of "the great Ur-case of Jungian psychology".