extending individual therapy to collective
We’re not attacking therapy so much as trying to extend it, reveal its blind spots … it’s not the idea of doing therapy that is wrong; there are many who need it desperately, and who may never truly know themselves without it … but therapy’s theoretical base has not gone far enough, has not connected with the world, and without that connection it’s incapable of treating the whole individual
extending individuation into the world of things
Carl Jung has explored the concept of collective psychology seriously, but his path-breaking concepts of synchronicity and the collective unconscious are more descriptions of the phenomena than tools for thought and change. The proof of this is that the concepts are so rarely employed in practice by Jungian therapists