The God Within
By George Elder, 12/4/23 C. G. Jung’s greatest contribution to culture is his discovery of the collective unconscious. It is a profound...
The Blind and the Lame
By George R. Elder, 10/3/23 This essay is about an image—a marble statue entitled, “L’aveugle et le paralytique”—that won a first class...
The Shadow (2)
By George Elder, 8/15/23 In my earlier Post on this topic, I focused on the negative side of the “shadow”—Jung’s name for the...
Book Launch!
By George R. Elder, 6/13/23 I have just published a new book: The Self and the Lotus: A Jungian View of Indian Buddhism. You can buy it...
The Shadow
By George R. Elder, 6/4/23 As a little boy, I would lie in front of our big console radio (yes, I’m that old) and listen to a program...
The Psyche is Real
4/12/23 By George R. Elder I have not posted to this site for some time . . . while finishing a long book on the psychology of ancient...
Thoughts on the Pandemic
Some friends have asked me to comment on the coronavirus pandemic. It struck them as having something to do with the “Apocalypse”—about...
The Wall
There has been much talk about solving America’s immigration problems with a wall along the southern border with Mexico. The talk began...
Suicide
Americans have been recently disturbed to learn that the nation’s suicide rate has increased 30% since the year 2000--with middle-age...
Why Art?
Defining “art,” first of all, is an unwieldy business. I attended a graduate school of “arts and sciences,” which was that institution’s...