Category Archives: Violence
The Myth of Blood Libel V (“Sacrifice of Innocence”)
This post attempts to more clearly connect the previous entries in the “Blood Libel” series to the shootings in Tucson. If readers have read these earlier entries in puzzlement, wondering what ideas such as persona, shadow and shame, individuation, or … Continue reading
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The Myth of Blood Libel IV (“Exceptionalism & The Chosen People”)
At the heart of analytical psychology there is an important idea which Mythfire has surprisingly not yet mentioned. Some might consider it analytical psychology’s most central idea: individuation, defined by psychologist Murray Stein as “The process of psychic development that leads to … Continue reading
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The Myth of Blood Libel III (“The Shame Game”)
These blog posts on “blood libel” have thus far attempted to introduce readers to a few ideas basic to analytical psychology, namely those of the persona and the shadow. The former idea may be a bit easier for readers to … Continue reading
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The Myth of Blood Libel II (“Owning Your Shadow”)
This post continues to look at Sarah Palin’s post-Tucson “blood libel” video.[1] Last week, Mythfire suggested that each of us possesses what Swiss psychiatrist C.G. Jung calls a persona, further defined by analytical psychologist Murray Stein as “the psycho-social identity … Continue reading
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The Myth of Blood Libel (“The Adequate Persona”)
Following the shootings in Tucson there has been a call for less vitriol in political discourse, a toning down of verbal attacks on ideas and on one’s political opponents. Civility toward one another is the operative word of the hour … Continue reading
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