Making Suffering Meaningful, by Stacey Shelby, Ph.D.

The eventual achievement that our suffering has meaning makes suffering more bearable. The area of wounding is a direct route to the numinosum.  The archetype at the core is both the one that causes the suffering and is also the one that can cause the healing through increased consciousness of that area of suffering.  The

2019-12-20T09:07:45+00:00November 23rd, 2014|

Perfection vs. Wholeness, by Stacey Shelby, Ph.D.

What is this wholeness that Jungians talk about of which the Self is the ordering principle?  How is it different from perfection?  We cannot talk about wholeness without also talking about individuation, “Jung called the journey toward wholeness the ‘process of individuation’” (Storr, 1983, p. 19).  Jung wrote (CW 9i, paras. 489-524): “I use the

2019-12-20T09:08:13+00:00November 22nd, 2014|

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