Category: Soul, Psyche, and History

JUNG: Totality, Process, and the Recovery of the Excluded Jung’s turn to alchemy does not arise from antiquarian curiosity, mystical inclination, or dissatisfaction with Christianity as such. It arises from a psychological necessity generated by his clinical and theoretical work. By the late 1920s, Jung had become convinced that modern individuals were encountering symbolic material—dreams,…

by Brenton L. Delp Our project has argued that modern addiction is not merely a medical contingency but a historically intelligible answer to a specific spiritual condition: the completion of transcendence and the relocation of “the Absolute” into operational systems (technique, administration, pharmacology, optimization). In that condition, obligation remains, but its traditional guarantees do not….

Completion, Not Compensation Any serious contemporary account of addiction that still draws on depth psychology must reckon with the fault line between C. G. Jung and Wolfgang Giegerich. This is not a matter of interpretation or emphasis. Giegerich’s work represents a direct intervention into Jungian thought—one that corrects, completes, and in crucial respects overturns Jung’s…

Carl Gustav Jung’s psychology is often misunderstood as ahistorical, inward, or mythological in a purely symbolic sense. In fact, one of Jung’s most radical and consistent claims is that the psyche unfolds historically and becomes intelligible only through its historical manifestations. Jung does not treat history as a backdrop against which psychic life happens; rather,…

A likely objection to the present framework concerns its apparent historical exclusivity: namely, whether the psychic structure here designated Born Man admits of premodern or non-modern analogues, thereby undermining its claim to modern specificity. Traditions such as Stoicism, late antique inwardness, Indian non-dualism, Buddhist reflexivity, Greek tragedy, or medieval mysticism may appear, at first glance,…

Contemporary addiction is typically approached as a medical disorder, a behavioral pathology, or a moral failure. Each of these frames captures a dimension of the phenomenon, yet none explains why addiction emerges with such structural regularity in modern societies, nor why it so often appears precisely where freedom, autonomy, and rationalization are most advanced. To…

Reframing Astrology Beyond Causation Contemporary discussions of temperament and personality increasingly emphasize neurobiological organization at birth, while astrology is typically dismissed as pre-scientific superstition. This essay argues that such dismissal rests on a category error. Drawing on Richard Tarnas’ theory of archetypal coherence and Liz Greene’s depth-psychological approach to astrology, the paper reframes astrology not…

From Johannine Ontology to Dantean Cosmology Among the most uncompromising claims in the Christian tradition is the Johannine assertion that “God is love” (1 John 4:8). This declaration is neither metaphor nor moral encouragement; it is an ontological statement concerning the nature of ultimate reality. Divine being is here identified without remainder with agapē. More…

The Soul of History Sophia was not born when the world was whole. She arrived only after the first fracture—after certainty had learned to speak too loudly, after order had begun to mistake itself for truth. She did not appear as a rival to Logos, but as what remained when Logos had said everything it…

How Logos Appears Today Logos was once confident. He trusted clarity. He trusted distinction. He trusted that if something could be named, ordered, explained, it could be mastered—and if mastered, it could be trusted. When doubt appeared, he sharpened himself. When the world resisted, he refined his methods. When fear arose, he demanded proof. Then…

What Is Spirituality? The word spirit appears deceptively simple, yet its ambiguity conceals several fundamentally different ways of thinking. I will therefore avoid asking what the word means and instead ask what it refers to, since reference situates the term within a logical context rather than a private definition. The most immediate use of spirit…

Revised “There are those who forget that death will come to all. For those who remember, quarrels come to an end.”— The Dhammapada Addiction cannot be adequately understood when it is treated solely as a problem belonging to isolated individuals. What is commonly referred to as spiritual malady should not be conceived as a private…