Active Imagination analogous using AI
I stumbled over an AI capability to reconstruct memory images from fragments. This conjecture proposes it resembles an analogues of a technique C. G..Jung called Active Imagination. Jungian Active Imagination allows to intentionally to interact with ones inner imagery by…
Infernal Affairs: HE KILLED SIEGFRIED, HIS HERO – Truth does not disappear. It loses its operational function.
The Infernal Affairs trilogy (I- III) presents a double infiltration structure between the Hong Kong police force and a triad organization. Its deeper structure is about the psychological destabilization of identity under competing evaluative frameworks not about crime resolution. At…
Augustus – Archetype of Magician and the Wise King – Princeps
This article wants to explore Caesar Augustus (formerly Octavian), Rome’s first emperor; his achievements and who he was from a Jungian angle. He transformed Rome from a crumbling, war-torn republic into a stable, wealthy (global) empire. His reign birthed the…
Sabina Spielrein’s, “Destruction as the Cause of Coming into Being” – transformation as destruction for creation
INTRODUCTION This essay analyzes Sabina Spielrein’s most famous work, “Destruction as the Cause of Coming into Being” (Destruktion als Ursache des Werdens, 1912) . It envisions her neither as a premature Jungian nor as a dissident Freudian, but as what…
C.G. Jung and Wotan’s awakening
WOTAN, WODEN and ODIN The supreme Germanic deity—known variously as Wotan, Woden, and Odin—presents a complex history of linguistic divergence, classical syncretism, and vivid literary adaptation. This essay discusses them from a Jungian point of view. While the Roman historian…
The Wolf as an Jungian Archetype Vessel
This article argues that the wolf is an Jungian Archetype Vessel, one of the most persistent and structurally overdetermined animal-symbols in human civilization because the historical encounter between man and wolf unfolded simultaneously on three inseparable levels: biological rivalry, social…
The universe as aesthetic experience – Jung’s “archetype of the storm”
A Jungian view of my astrophotography ‘The Veil Nebula‘, the universe interpreted though Maxim Gorky’s famous poem and the philosopher Kant. Immanuel Kant saw the universe as a profound source of aesthetic experience, especially through the concept of the sublime—like…
Faust and C.G. Jung – What holds the world together at its core
Goethe and C.G. Jung “Faust I”, the Germans’ favorite drama is about a scholar who wants the impossible, who wants to know what keeps the world together at heart. Goethe’s Faust failed on this worldly question, which ultimately leads either…
“The Monk by the Sea” – infinity and mortality
Two of the most famous paintings from Germany’s Romantic period are back on display at a central Berlin museum after a two-year restoration. I recently visited that exibition and appreciated the famed landscape painter Caspar David Friedrich. The Monk is…