Dissecting King Midas: The Miser Archetype The cautionary tale of King Midas in ancient Greek Mythology and the redemption of Ebenezer Scrooge in Charles Dickens’s Christmas Carol may have a good thousand years between them, but they both exemplify Oscar Wilde’s famous definition that a […]
Surrogate Families As old community and family structures disintegrate, complexities of individual isolation within a crowd are increasing, and surrogate families as support systems in contemporary society have become a common reality. The 90’s TV series Friends is even more relevant today, and gives […]
This morning I found a spider’s web starred with dew snagged on my balcony railing. Have you ever noticed how the tiniest shift in the air can send reverberations all the way through to the edge of this universe? In the same way, a gentle tug […]
From symbolic point of view, psychological transformation is not only about growth, changing form but developing the capacity to thrive in a different element. The butterfly’s caterpillar – chrysalis – complete makeover is the symbol used most often to signify a process of psychological transformation. It’s a […]
Carl Jung first introduced the notion of the wounded healer (1951) to illustrate how only a wounded physician could heal effectively. Since then, the main archetypal image associated with the Healer is Chiron, the half-human, half-god, half-horse centaur from Greek mythology. But the role the […]