Turbulent Times

A lovely blog post by Dr. Cara Barker from the Huffington Post, written in the wake of the spring earthquake in Japan, but still current for us after the tornadoes in Tuscaloosa, Joplin and elsewhere. “Where are your deepest roots when tough times come?”

Trailer for A Dangerous Method

The trailer for the upcoming David Cronenberg film, A Dangerous Method, about the relationship between Freud and Jung, is now available here. You can also watch various clips and see behind the scenes pics as well.

What’s Hiding In The Unconscious Mind

Here’s an NPR Fresh Air interview with neuroscientist and author David Eagleman, whose book Incognito has recently been published by Pantheon. Most interesting to me, from the NPR article:

“Your brain doesn’t like to keep secrets. Studies at the University of Texas, Austin, have shown that writing down secrets in a journal or telling a doctor your secrets actually decreases the level of stress hormones in your body. Keeping a secret, meanwhile, does the opposite. Your brain also doesn’t like stress hormones. So when you have a secret to tell, the part of your brain that wants to tell the secret is constantly fighting with the part of your brain that wants to keep the information hidden.”

New Global Internet Seminar

The Asheville Jung Center will host its next global internet seminar on Friday, June 24, 2011 from 11:00 AM to 2:00 PM (Eastern US Time Zone). The title is “The Creation of Symbolic Meaning on the Path to Individuation”— presenters are Murray Stein, Ph.D., President of the International School of Analytical Psychology (ISAP) in Zurich, Switzerland, and Warren Colman, M.Sc., Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Analytical Psychology and a Training Analyst at the Society of Analytical Psychology (SAP) in London, UK. For more information, check this link at the Asheville Jung Center. Also make sure to check the other offerings from the Asheville Jung Center.

Quote of the Day

“He who enters into his own must grope through what lies at hand, he must sense his way from stone to stone. He must embrace the worthless and the worthy with the same love.”   —C.G. Jung, The Red Book

50th Anniversary of Jung’s Death

Thinking today of Jung and his influence:

Mark Vernon, who writes for the Guardian, started a series last week on Carl Jung. The first article was titled “Taking Inner Life Seriously” and appeared on May 30. Part 2 of the series appeared today: “A troubled relationship with Freud – and the Nazis.”

Jung’s obituary, revisited in the NYTimes’ On This Day page.

Also by Mark Vernon but from the BBC News Magazine: “What Would Carl Jung Make of 2011?”

YouTube: “Carl Jung Speaks on Death”