https://www.jungian-confrerie.com/blog/ Recent content in Jungian Confrerie Blog on The Jungian Confrerie Hugo -- gohugo.io en Mon, 08 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.jungian-confrerie.com/blog/puer-aeternus-and-the-provisional-life/ Mon, 08 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.jungian-confrerie.com/blog/puer-aeternus-and-the-provisional-life/ There is a particular kind of man who is easy to like and hard to hold onto. He is charming, gifted, often genuinely creative, full of plans and possibility. And yet something in him never quite lands. The job is never the right job, the relationship is never quite the one, the city is never somewhere to settle. Always there is the sense that the real life, the true beginning, is still somewhere ahead. https://www.jungian-confrerie.com/blog/meeting-the-shadow/ Fri, 05 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.jungian-confrerie.com/blog/meeting-the-shadow/ Few of Jung’s ideas have travelled as far as the shadow. The word now turns up in wellness apps, social media threads and self-help workbooks, often detached from anything Jung meant by it. That is a pity, because the original idea is both more precise and more useful than its popular version. What the shadow is In Jung’s Collected Works, the shadow is not a vague dark side or a metaphor for our flaws. https://www.jungian-confrerie.com/blog/the-mother-complex-and-the-great-mother/ Tue, 02 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.jungian-confrerie.com/blog/the-mother-complex-and-the-great-mother/ Jung once remarked that the mother complex is perhaps the commonest and most important of all complexes. It is a striking claim, and the more closely you look at adult life, the more defensible it becomes. Long after childhood, the early experience of being mothered, or of its absence, continues to shape how a person seeks comfort, tolerates closeness, handles dependency and steps into their own authority. Archetype and complex It helps to separate two things Jung kept distinct.