The other half of the conversation.
Neuroscience gives us mechanism. Depth psychology gives us meaning. The pages in this section take the depth-psychological tradition seriously without losing the empirical discipline the rest of the site keeps. Where the bridges hold, they are named. Where they don't, the page says so.
Jung, Reich, Perls — written for the careful reader.
Aion: the Self and the Shadow
Jung's late synthesis. The two concepts whose neural correlates the contemporary literature has most directly engaged.
Open6 min readThe Red Book
Jung's private record of the work he later called individuation. The phenomenology is rich; the mechanism is not yet mapped.
Open7 min readGestalt therapy
Body, here-and-now, and the empty chair. The lineage that took the body seriously when academic cognitive science did not.
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The Threshold
A contemplative essay that sits between the macro and the cellular views of the site. Three movements; about ten minutes.
OpenEssay + galleryThe Archetypes
Jungian images paired with anatomical neuroscience. A reading of how the inherited symbolic vocabulary of culture meets the cortical machinery that received it.
OpenEssay collectionField Notes
Long-form pieces from the seam between mind and brain. The hippocampus and the act of remembering. What the brain knows before you do.
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