by Lisa Marchiano | Oct 8, 2026 | Archetypal, Core Jungian Concepts, Therapy Related
Psychological inflation implies an exaggerated sense of self-importance, accompanied by an unconscious feeling of inferiority. For Jungians, it involves identification with an archetypal energy. When the ego starts to feel that it IS an archetype,...
by Lisa Marchiano | Sep 3, 2026 | Archetypal, Cultural Currents, Guests
Lindsay Clancy has brought renewed attention to the horror of infanticide: babies and children dying at the hands of their mother. Infanticide has taken place for millennia, most often due to social pressures or lack of the resources needed to raise a...
by Lisa Marchiano | Aug 27, 2026 | Archetypal, Guests
OpenAI recently had to explain to frightened users why their models kept introducing goblins and gremlins into otherwise humdrum conversations. Is it possible that archetypes are emerging through the field of collective knowledge amassed by large...
by Lisa Marchiano | Aug 20, 2026 | Archetypal, Core Jungian Concepts, Guests
Magic can be viewed as intentional engagement with what Jung called synchronicity. It is closely related to a mythological worldview, which recognizes a grand narrative supraordinate to everyday life. Although we cannot know it in its entirety, it opens...
by Lisa Marchiano | Aug 13, 2026 | Archetypal, Fairytales, Guests
The wild man is an enduring archetypal figure worldwide, from Enkidu in Gilgamesh, to the Greek god Pan (worshipped in glens and woods), the Green Man in England, and Bigfoot and the Sasquatch in the US. Today’s guest, Jungian analyst Mike Box, has a...
by Lisa Marchiano | Jul 30, 2026 | Archetypal, Cultural Currents, Guests
As we confront the turbulence of rapid change, technological dehumanization, and cultural polarization, how do we reconnect to being and meaning? Best-selling author BRUCE FEILER returns us to ritual: world-wide, time-honored ways for people to come home...