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Psychotherapist in Muizenberg
I am passionate about the psychoanalytic approach to psychotherapy for it offers the opportunity to engage with the fundamental aspects of the psyche. From the…
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Stone
A woman dreamed of a precious stone, buried in her garden. A precious stone is a symbol of the lapis lazuli, the self. In modern…
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Bearing
The bear can be seen as the spirit of the wild. Because it cares for its young in almost human fashion, the bear was a…
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Trickster creates
Feeling distressed, we might engage with a creative medium within a contained space and be surprised to discover the reality of the living psyche, of…
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Water
We associate our emotional life with water. Without our world of emotions, we are stranded in a dry blazing desert, the world of one-sided mind.…
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The well
Our world is dominated by rationality and superficiality, resulting in loneliness and meaninglessness, but by restoring the relationship with one’s deeper personality one may draw…
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Symbolism of the tree
The tree represents the manifestation of the life-force, of our ability to grow into greater maturity; when faced with an impossible life situation, one should…
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Online Creative Course
Symbolical creative work can be an indispensable tool to anyone who takes the inner journey seriously. So, I squeezed and kneaded the clay for half…
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Active imagination
In this artwork, the foreground frames the background vision. The strange animals, combining different pairs of opposites, represent the self. The man and the animal…
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Synchronicity
At Richard Wilhelm’s memorial service in 1930 Jung expressed his gratitude for the rich contribution that Wilhelm made to Western society and to him in…
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An African Tale
Seven maidens went to the river to fetch water. One girl went a little further. While the others were waiting, they decided to play her…
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Mother Holle
A negative relationship with the personal mother may be deeply wounding, but in the tale of Mother Holle we find a relational archetypal pattern (personified…
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The Dog
Dogs are often intimately part of both our visible and dream worlds, valued for their loyalty, guidance and protectiveness, as playmate, companion or working dog.…
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The Creative Way
The creative space, the space between heaven and earth visited by shaman and artist alike since the dawn of the human race, has always been…
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A Meaningful Worldview
A worldview that originates from our archetypal roots is meaningful, containing. Jung often encouraged his patients to give thought to developing a worldview and many…
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Learning from the Other
Inherent in the confrontation with Otherness is a possibility to learn from the Other, but when coming face to face with a stranger, one may…
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The Wounded Healer
Jung pointed out “the mythological truth that the wounded wounder is the agent of healing, and the sufferer takes away suffering.” (1) Chiron represents ‘the…
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An Inner Critic
The four weary travelers came through great danger to the king of the Mark. He looked weary, was bent over, almost dwarfed, having sat “too…
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Black Madonna, Forgotten
More than 500 shrines of the Black Madonna appeared world-wide, but mostly in central Europe, between the 11th and 15th centuries. Scholars suggest that she…
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Aion
Only once did Jung name a book after a god; this god was Aion. Aion-Khronos represents a father-god, Greco-Roman with Persian influences. His cult, Mithraism,…
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Creative course program
We will explore the psychological creative space as a containing space, its unfolding content and how it may be meaningful. The natural tendency of the…
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Fire-bird
The phoenix or fire-bird, is a mythical bird the size of an eagle and graced with certain features of a pheasant. When the phoenix sees…
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Indra’s Net
I have a dream | A song to sing… When we were young, we had dreams, and perhaps unrealistic ideas about how to fulfil our…
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Moon Mother Mirror
An artist dreamed of a magic mirror that creates his life. “Ego consciousness is a mirror into which the Self gazes…” and “…the ego is…
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