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Individuation Meaning and Afterlife

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Individuation, meaning in our case, Jung’s idea is a topic of deep curiosity and a lot of misunderstanding. One of the most compelling questions about this concept is whether individuation has a final point of culmination or if it is an unending journey. To probe this question, we must delve deeply into Carl Jung’s perspectives on the human psyche and …

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Carl Jung Homosexuality and the Mystery of Love

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Recently someone asked me if C.G. Jung thought homosexuality was a mental illness.  The short answer is, emphatically, no, no, no!  Jung was not that categorical about anything.  Even though he was from a time when it was not yet socially accepted, to Jung homosexuality was not necessarily problematic.  For Jung homosexuality was even the spiritual destiny of some people. …