Carl Jung · articles that mention them
American writer and professor Joseph Campbell developed the theory of the monomyth, showing that the world’s major mythologies share a common structure, and profoundly influenced modern cinema and thinking about the meaning of life.
In an essay, Teague de La Plaine argues that excerpts lose their meaning when taken out of context, and defends slow, careful reading over collecting snippets from wise thinkers.
California has signed a law allowing solar panels that connect to standard electrical outlets, a move that could broaden access to clean energy; the weekly roundup also features windows inspired by squid and other hopeful developments.
Carl Jung saw death not as an end but as the goal of life: a bend in consciousness within spacetime, with middle age reversing the curve of existence and opening up the prospect of a second birth.
Starting with the question of why artificial intelligence cannot write poetry like Whitman, The Marginalian revisits a 1943 letter from Carl Jung on the relationship between psychological suffering and creativity: pain should neither be idealized nor denied, but turned into raw material for action.
In a rare 1959 BBC interview, 84-year-old Carl Jung discusses why personality is not static, why human beings are the greatest danger, and the need for meaning in the face of modern life's alienation.
At 84, Jung began recounting his life to Aniela Jaffé; Memories, Dreams, Reflections reveals his thinking on consciousness, death and the meaning of human existence.
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