Beginning in the years leading up to the Great War, both C. G. Jung and J. R. R. Tolkien independently began to undergo profound imaginal experiences. They had each stepped across a threshold and entered into another world, the realm of imagination, the world of fantasy. Jung recorded these initially spontaneous visionary experiences, which he […]

According to Dr. Jan Collins and Dr. Marc Hamer, “the phenomenology of romantic love involves the full spectrum of human behavioral determinants, incorporating our biological endowment; the inner world of psyche, spirit, soul, and Self; as well as the outer world of our society, others, and the sociocultural chronicles of romantic love that are expressed in […]

 March 2025 Jungian and Archetypal Studies M.A./Ph.D. Admissions Webinar Join us for an exclusive admissions webinar featuring Keiron Le Grice, PhD, Co-Chair of Pacifica Graduate Institute’s M.A./Ph.D. Jungian and Archetypal Studies program. The psychology of the unconscious may be situated in the lineage of nineteenth-century romantic philosophy, which served as a compensatory undercurrent to the […]

Individuation: Partial and Full My life is a story of the self-realization of the unconscious. Everything in the unconscious seeks outward manifestation, and the personality too desires to evolve out of its unconscious conditions and to experience itself as a whole. C.G. Jung, Memories, Dreams, Reflections, p. 3 In these casual talks each semester, ISAP analysts […]

In 1913, Jung followed his Soul into the unconscious. This journey was the Rosetta Stone for the rest of his research and work. His destiny was to redeem the embodied soul from vilification and exile for modern psychology. The body was relegated to the shadow. We will trace through neuroscience and history how and why […]