“Nobody will ever become conscious if he does not hit his head on something.” - C.G. Jung Consciousness act as the center point for Jung’s model of the psyche, as something so important that everything else that exists needs to be put into reference to it: The unconscious, the things that are not in consciousness. What it is, how it works and what’s its purpose is will all be part of this event. Find my work on Linktree: https://linktr.ee/cgjunghelpdesk...
Jul 06, 2025•49 min•Season 1Ep. 44
“This is the stuff that drives people crazy, because they can’t catch themselves anymore; they can no longer control themselves when they have that animal psychology. It means they are driven by instinct. They see a thing and leap for it. That is the condition of schizophrenia, for all those things appear also in cases of insanity; they are dynamite that can easily explode in the human mind.” - C.G. Jung The 2000 movie is an interesting case study of a slow descent into madness, but what would J...
Jun 23, 2025•57 min•Season 1Ep. 43
“Ladies and gentleman, considering that your seat, this room, this lightening, our entire culture are nothing other than products of human fantasy, then you cannot overlook this. There is nothing man-made known to you that is not fantasy. Fantasy is the alpha and the omega of psychic life. Fantasy is the greatest danger of all. Do you believe that a landslide or an earthquake is as dangerous as human fantasy? Well, you haven’t the faintest idea! Fantasy is catastrophe.” - C.G. Jung Jung saw Fant...
Jun 08, 2025•38 min•Season 1Ep. 42
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Jun 01, 2025•4 min
„Real is, what has an effect“ - C.G. Jung Jung‘s approach to therapy followed a basic principle: To meet the patient where they are. Reality is something incredibly subjective that can shape and transform just as we do. Join us to find out more. See you there. Find me on Linktree: https://linktr.ee/cgjunghelpdesk
Nov 24, 2024•29 min•Season 1Ep. 41
„Although we human beings have our own personal life, we are yet in large measure the representatives, the victims and promoters of a collective spirit whose years are counted in centuries. We can well think all our lives long that we are following our own noses, and may never discover that we are, for the most part, supernumeraries on the stage of the world theater.“ - C.G. Jung There is something deep in the psyche of humans, something that shapes and forms cultures and ages. Jung investigated...
Nov 10, 2024•41 min•Season 1Ep. 40
„This means not only bringing the conflict to consciousness; it also involves an experience of a special kind, namely, the recognition of an alien ‚other‘ in oneself, of the objective presence of another will.“ - C.G. Jung Shadow, Anima, Animus, Mercurius. Jung talks often about the figures of the unconscious that one encounters in one‘s life. We are not alone in our home and even though they all look and are different, are the all and the same in the end?
Oct 27, 2024•29 min•Season 1Ep. 39
“Even on the primitive level man feels an irresistible need actually to invent secrets: their possession safeguards him from dissolving in the featureless flow of unconscious community life and thus from deadly peril to his soul.” - C.G. Jung As we dive deeper into the hidden corners of Jung’s ideas about the psyche, we encounter one concept that seem innocuous but hugely influential under the right circumstances: The secret. Join to shed some light on it.
Oct 13, 2024•29 min•Season 1Ep. 38
“Pretty much everything that currently moves the subject's soul is expressed in the associations.” - C.G. Jung Within associations Jung saw the elemental structure of consciousness and the reason for dreams and fantasies. With every call, something in the psyche answered, but was it the patient themselves or something else? Jung investigated that and created his academic career that brought him to the attention of one of the leading figures of psychology of the time: Sigmund Freud. Join to learn...
Sep 29, 2024•32 min•Season 1Ep. 37
“The child lives in a pre-rational and above all in a pre-scientific world, the world of the men who existed before us.” C.G. Jung In the broad public little is known about Jung and his contributions to developmental psychology, the emerging psychology of children. Jung studied families and their ties and saw a unique opportunity in children to gaze into the depth of our psychology and in the past of human beings. Join us to learn more.
Sep 15, 2024•39 min•Season 1Ep. 36
“You get the feeling that your life make sense the moment it touches nature again. Therefore whenever you have a chance to return to nature, you feel better; at least to a small extent you return to the “mother.” Instinctively your life becomes corrected; it gets the right balance.” - C.G. Jung We are of nature but at the same time removed from it. Jung had pretty clear ideas what the relationship between humans and nature is and is supposed to be. Join this event to learn more about the phenome...
Sep 01, 2024•43 min•Season 1Ep. 35
„I told nobody that I intended to work out the unconscious phenomena of the psychoses, but that was my determination. I wanted to catch the intruders in the mind - the intruders that make people laugh when they should not laugh, and cry when they should not cry.“ - C.G.Jung Forgetting, a slip of tongue, accidents. All the kinds of phenomena can origin, according to the psychoanalytic school of thought, from a complex in the unconscious. Join this event to find out more about these „intruders of ...
Aug 18, 2024•31 min•Season 1Ep. 34
“I had accustomed myself to living always on two planes simultaneously, one consciousness, which attempted to understand and could not, and one unconscious, which wanted to express something and could not formulate it any better than by a dream” - C.G. Jung This event will be about the basic premises and threads that pop up when Jung is drawn towards a phenomenon or reaches a conclusion. Commonalities between his ideas that creates a strong footing to say that an idea is Jungian, even when that ...
Aug 04, 2024•32 min•Season 1Ep. 33
“If the conscious attitude is too infantile, too immature, an old woman appears as a compensating figure. And the old wise man always appears when one is too foolish. Then the moment one becomes mature and reasonable in one's attitude, infantile figures turn up in the dreams, the puer aeternus motif, for instance. You see, when one is old in one's consciousness, perhaps too reasonable, too adapted, too considerate, then one's soul is young, it is a child even, because one needs childlikeness in ...
Jun 02, 2024•29 min•Season 1Ep. 32
“So the worst trap is the body. We have all been taught that our minds and other virtues are wings we put on, so we get to flying about above ourselves, and we live as if the body did not exist. This happens often with intuitives, with everybody in fact. The body appears to us as a most serious obstacle.” - C.G.Jung The discovery of the body and the bodily is for Jung one of the main tasks of the modern mind. While the mind can fantasies about all the possibilities in the world, the body binds i...
May 19, 2024•38 min•Season 1Ep. 31
“You see to what a huge extent the East honors consciousness as the light benevolently supporting man in the terrible darkness surrounding epitome of evil. All evil comes from ignorance. All evil, the entire sum of life, comes from not knowing. You will find this doctrine in the original words of the Buddha. For whoever is in the the state of consciousness behaves like an automaton. He has no ethic.” C.G. Jung When we talk about the shadow, very often the topic of evil comes up. This lead to a v...
May 05, 2024•37 min•Season 1Ep. 30
“Through our senses we experience the known, but our intuitions point to things that are unknown and hidden, that by their very nature are secret.” C.G. Jung For Jung, there exist many pathways how experiences can reach our consciousness. The most mysterious being intuition, which is, as he says, “perception through the unconscious,” seeing the possibilities of things, even more so then the thing itself. Join to find out more about this special function and what life is to someone, for whom intu...
Apr 21, 2024•33 min•Season 1Ep. 29
“As a rule, people who have a certain maturity, who are philosophically inclined, more or less successful in the world and not too neurotic share my views.” - C.G. Jung In my journey to read and understand everything from Jung, there are still some concepts that I have a hard time to wrap my head around. I am feeling that has to do with inconsistencies in some concepts and I will try to explore those in this event. Join me in this investigation.
Feb 25, 2024•50 min•Season 1Ep. 28
“The idea in the dream is that something has happened, a new worm has suddenly appeared, the worm which seemed to be a terrific danger; yet we saw that it also has a very positive meaning, the beginning of higher consciousness. That is why so many people are afraid of higher consciousness. For it bears a greater responsibility and danger.” - C.G. Jung “Man against nature” is one of the archetypal stories that humanity has. While the Steven Spielberg movie “Jaws” from 1975 seems to be just like t...
Feb 12, 2024•43 min•Season 1Ep. 27
PLEASE NOTE: This event is a purely intellectual investigation into Jung’s thoughts and opinions about psychological therapy and therapists. The event is not an instruction for neither diagnosis nor treatment. If you have the feeling to be personally affected in your psychological health, please consider contacting a certified professional. No piece of content of the event should be taken as medical advice. “As we know, a complex can be really overcome really only if it is lived out to the full....
Jan 28, 2024•57 min•Season 1Ep. 26
“It is not possible to live too long amid infantile surroundings, or in the bosom of the family, without endangering one’s psychic health. Life calls forth to independence, and anyone who does not head this call because of childish laziness or timidity is threatened with neurosis.” C.G. Jung What do you get when you combine romance and spectacle? One of the most successful movies of all time and a great display of the individuation process of a trapped woman. Viewed through a Jungian lens, one c...
Dec 17, 2023•49 min•Season 1Ep. 25
“The smaller the personality, the dimmer and more unconscious it becomes, until finally it merges indistinguishable with the surrounding society, thus surrendering its own wholeness and dissolving into the wholeness of the group. In the place of the inner voice there is the voice of the group with its conventions, and vocation is replaced by collective necessities” C.G. Jung Jung deals a lot with the internal world, our psychology, but he also wrote extensively about the social world and our rol...
Dec 03, 2023•32 min•Season 1Ep. 24
“Everything unknown and empty is filled with psychological projection: it is as if the investigator’s own psychic background were mirrored in the darkness. What he sees in matter, or thinks he can see, is chiefly the data of his own unconscious which he is projecting into it.” C.G. Jung Jung and his ideas were already hard to understand in his time and while the concepts of psycho analysis found a strong footing in modern discourse and culture, getting an unobstructed view on Jung and his work i...
Nov 19, 2023•48 min•Season 1Ep. 23
“Once the unconscious gets into active opposition to consciousness, it simply refused to be suppressed.” C.G. Jung While failing at the box-office when it was released, David Fincher’s “Fight Club”, based on the 1996 novel of the same name by Chuck Palahniuk, became a hit and cultural phenomenon on home video. Viewed through a Jungian lens, there is a lot to explore and there is still something to add to the countless interpretations about its meaning. Caution: There will be tons of spoilers. I ...
Nov 05, 2023•1 hr 1 min•Season 1Ep. 22
“There, in the East, is the metaphysical philosophy, and that is what we call psychology” C.G. Jung While the march of modernity made cultures seem more and more homogenised, was Jung in his time still able to see and perceive cultures in their more unique expression. Deeply concerned with the decay of European civilisation during both world wars, he spent much time investigating the roots of western civilisation and with his investigations into eastern philosophy trying to found out more about ...
Oct 22, 2023•49 min•Season 1Ep. 21
“Freud’s only interest is where things come from, never where they are going.” C.G. Jung “Freud's original idea of the unconscious was that it was a sort of receptacle or storehouse for repressed material, infantile wishes, and the like. But the unconscious is far more than that: it is the basis and precondition of all consciousness.” C.G. Jung Nothing stings harsher than deceit and deceived Freud felt after the friendship with Jung ended. Jung sacrificed his academic career and his reputation t...
Oct 13, 2023•47 min•Season 1Ep. 20
“Statements by men on the subject of female psychology suffer principally form the fact that the projection of unconscious femininity is always strongest where critical judgment is most needed, that is, where a man is involved emotionally” C.G. Jung Here I want to try something new and move away from only using material directly from Jung to talk about one of the most surprising (and successful) movies of the year: Barbie. Looking through a Jungian lens there are many different facets to explore...
Sep 24, 2023•50 min•Season 1Ep. 19
“At first, the Self is always something simple, something little, or cheap. It turns out, however, that it’s the king or even the savior. It is the crown, the phoenix, the saint, the savior, even the deity. It is the center toward which everything is oriented” C.G. Jung Life moves in circles, but what is in the center? Jung saw a fixed point in the psyche that one revolves around closing in more and more with time. Is there something like an invisible hand guiding one’s actions and thoughts? Joi...
Sep 10, 2023•37 min•Season 1Ep. 18
“The shadow is on the one side regrettable and reprehensible weakness, on the other side healthy instinctivity and the prerequisite for higher consciousness.” C.G. JungThere is a hidden side to everything, but sometimes what is hidden from our sight is the most obvious to other people. While the shadow is always right next to us we tend to find it the fastest at other people. Join to find out more about one of the most famous concepts of Jung and why evil always seems to be on the other side of ...
Jun 18, 2023•48 min•Season 1Ep. 17
“When somebody has an archetypal experience, he gets one hell of an inflation and is inebriated by power. That's also the reason why Nietzsche was a megalomanic.” C.G. JungWhile we think to be always the master of our thoughts and actions, there are other forces lingering in the background, gripping people and pushing them along. Being driven does not need to mean to be in the driver’s seat. Find my work on Linktree: https://linktr.ee/cgjunghelpdesk There is a quiz availa...
May 28, 2023•49 min•Season 1Ep. 16
