This episode explores Death Potential which is not a psychological trait but a mythological and metaphysical category. Moreover, it is archetypal and universal and therefore is not unique to capitalism but exists within our consciousness across its whole history. The immense technological powers of capitalism constellate this Death Potential in the most intense form yet experienced by our species. This distinguishes it from Freud’s notion of the death instinct. I do not believe such an instinct exists in the human psyche but I do believe that mankind has a tremendous fear of death which is repressed, becomes intolerable and is then projected outwards. I also believe that the whole perinatal period, (that is the period around birth: in the womb, actual birth, and immediate post-birth) can be an intimate, dramatic, sometimes traumatic, encounter with the forces of death that can deeply shape human character. In other words our entrance into consciousness is through the gates of potential death. This is projected onto nature,other human beings, and the world. This is our greatest danger.
S1.Ep 17. How healing Intelligence works in the psyche and how we resist it.
S1.Ep 16. Healing and the subtle body/psyche
S1. Ep 15. Healing intelligence, consciousness and the ego
S1.Ep 14. The potency of the healing force in the psyche
S1.Ep 13. The wound that won't heal
S1.Ep 12. Integration and the movement to a new centre of the psyche
S1.Ep 11. Integration continued: what it means to work psychologically
S1.Ep 10. Integration step 2: the ability to work with the contents of the psyche
S1.Ep 9. Integration step 1: Evaluating the material from the psyche
S1.Ep 8. Attuning to the field
S1. Ep 7. The inter-subjective field between therapist and client
S1.Ep 6. A method of contacting the deep psyche
S1.Ep 5 The alignment to the deep psyche
S1.Ep 4 Style and essence of Jungian therapy
S1.Ep 3. The stages of psychotherapy as the context for healing
S1.Ep 2. Healing intelligence as a natural force
S1.Ep 1. Healing of emotional wounds - a Jungian approach
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