Jane Clapp: Jungian Somatics™ Substack
A Jungian Psychoanalyst (RP) with a post-Jungian POV, bringing Jung's work into the now and into the body and the heart, where we need it most. In search of ordinary miracles.
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Build the boat first. Swim after. (opens the original)
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I think an important distinction is getting blurred between Jungian psychology and Hillmanian archetypal psychology, particularly in the embodied and spiritual spaces where Jung’s ideas now circulate, often cherry-picked and flattened into two-dimensional versions of what they actually are.Hillman emerged from the Jungian tradition, but archetypal psychology developed its own emphasis on image, mythology, multiplicity, soul and imaginal life. Jung’s analytical psychology remains more firmly teth
When Lip Service Becomes the Persona of an Organization (opens the original)
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"Nothing in the world is as soft and yielding as water... (opens the original)
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Unlike many books that give rules, commandments, or doctrines, the Tao Te Ching teaches through paradox, metaphor, and images from nature. It points to rivers, valleys, water, trees, emptiness, and seasons as teachers. Its wisdom isn’t about dominating life, but participating in it wisely. Again and again, it invites us to release excess striving, rigid control, and egoic grasping and values simplicity, humility, patience, receptivity, and trust in natural timing.One of its central ideas is wu w
Privatio boni and the body (opens the original)
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“Abraxas is ‘above the sun and above the devil’ … ‘not any particular effect, but effect in general.’”—C. G. Jung, Septem Sermones ad Mortuos, Sermon III often observe how the body is idealized through the lens of privatio boni, and how this shapes how we speak about embodiment or even how we believe dialogue with the body will somehow move us to the li… Read more
What’s Trying to Be Born Through You? (opens the original)
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There are times when the central question bringing someone into Jungian analysis isn’t:How can I feel better?I’ve worked with clients where the central questions is: What’s trying to come into being through me and what’s stopping me from allowing this?This question often emerges in people who’ve already built a successful creative career. Artists, writers, teachers, thinkers, founders and cultural workers who’ve might be at the ‘top of their game’ yet have lost their fire and inspiration. They r
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