Two drives contend within each of us, the desire for satiety and safety, and the drive for exploration and individuation. When the former prevails over the latter, the individual is diminished and the world impoverished. Yet, the need to leave home, psychologically, is also an open wound that one carries into all one’s doings. This push/pull will be examined and the costs of either course illustrated through the lens of analytic psychology.
Home: Why We Must Leave it, and Why We Forever Look For It
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James HollisDr. James Hollis is a Washington D.C. based Jungian psychoanalyst and the author of seventeen books.
His current project takes him in a bold new direction. It is a documentary film tentatively titled “Soulheal.” James is collaborating with filmmaker José Enrique Pardo and producer Shon Tomlin on this project, which is inspired by his book “Under Saturn’s Shadow.”
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