Psychology Articles

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Hybrids: Monsters, Machines and Medicine

Technology and fiction are fascinated by the hybrid, whether mixed in the laboratory, manufactured on an assembly line, cross-pollinated in a greenhouse or created in the writer’s imagination. To contemplate ways of thinking about our modern hybrids and their powers, let’s journey back to the Greek world of myth to meet a constellation of hybrids, some mechanistic, some monstrous, some medicinal, yet all born of the human imagination.

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Re-animating Psychic Habitats: Archetypes and Ecosystems

C.G. Jung often amplified ways of thinking about the systemic balance between ecological and psychological habitats, emphasizing that ‘civilized’ man has trampled the wild, leaving psyche bereft of its primality, its indigeneity. This article explores the relationship between instinct and archetype and invites reflection upon how we might be reintroduced to the wilderness where primordial, natural and elemental life flourish.

This article was originally published in Quadrant, Journal of the CG Jung Foundation for Analytical Psychology, Vol LII, Spring 2023.

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Rewilding Psyche: Re-constructing our natural habitats

The CG Jung Society of Melbourne invited me to present a four- part series on Rewilding Psyche, inspired by Carl Jung’s writings on nature and the natural world. Re-wilding Psyche invites us to re-consider and re-story psychic systems and habitats.

Part 1 of the series was a formal lecture for the Society called Rewilding Psyche: Re-constructing our natural habitats.

Read the full transcript of my presentation here.

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Archetypes and Ecologies
Psyche’s Natural Habitats

The CG Jung Society of Sydney asked me to lecture and I chose an ecological motif, being keenly interested in how domesticity, rationality and urbanity suppress the mystery of Nature, within and without. The webinar from this lecture reflects on our disconnection from the wild and necessity for its restoration.

Synchronicity and the Enigma of Time

The CG Jung Society of Melbourne invited me to present a four- part series on the Gods of Time. Part 1 of the series was a formal lecture for the Society called Synchronicity and the Enigma of Time.

Read the full transcript of my presentation here.

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From the Red Book by Carl Jung

Symbols and the Soul

The CG Jung Society of Melbourne invited me to present a lecture to the society for their October 2020 meeting – I chose the theme of Symbols and the Soul to further explore this evocative partnership as I had in my book, Soul, Symbols and Imagination (https://www.amazon.com/Soul-Symbol-Imagination-Artistry-Astrology/dp/099448805X). Read the full transcript of my presentation here

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A mandala by Carl Jung from the Red Book

In 1999, my book The Sibling Constellation: the Astrology and Psychology of Sisters and Brothers was published by Penguin Arkana in the UK. It is now out of print. The astrology section has been revised and reprinted in the Student Booklet Series called the Astrology of Brothers and Sisters which you can find here: www.astrosynthesis.com.au/student-astrology-ebooklets/

I was fascinated that the development of psychology in the early 20th century with Pluto in Gemini had overlooked the sibling. As I researched its founding fathers, it became clear that all three had lost a brother, just like the mythic twins of Gemini: Pollux had lost his brother Castor. The following 3 astrology articles are Alfred Adler’s, Carl Jung’s and Sigmund Freud’s sibling stories and their horoscopes.

Adler, the Second Son: Birth Order and the Family

Following is Alfred Adler’s sibling story, his horoscope and the impact birth order has on our destiny.

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Sibling Shadows and Sacred Partners: Jung’s Inner Siblings

Following is Carl Jung’s sibling constellation, his horoscope and the impact it had on his anima/animus theory.

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Freudian Beginnings: Mars, Rivalry, Aggression and Leadership

Following is Sigmund Freud’s sibling story, his horoscope and the fascinating sibling themes that were part of the fabric of his life..

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