Professor William Sharp

“… The ego blocks the instinctual urge; it has become autonomous and anti-instinctive, and then becomes a destructive nuisance, such as we see in every neurotic. A neurosis could even be defined as an ego formation no longer in harmony with the whole personality” p 61.

“Only if one throws a shadow is one real. The shadow plunge man into the immediacy of situations here & now, and thus creates the real biography of the human being, who is always inclined to assume that he is only what he thinks he is. ” p142

“When symbolic factors are repressed, they glut the instincts, and therefore they must be separated out so that the genuine instinct can function without being overloaded.“ Page 134

Evil “provide us with the opportunities to increase consciousness… When we see our own greed, jealousy, spite, hatred… then these can be turned positive because in such destructive emotions is stored much life, & when we have this energy it can be turned to positive ends.”p126

Without the fire of emotions, no development takes place in no higher consciousness can be reached,… p 104

Jung said that to be in a situation where there’s no way out or to be in a conflict where there is no solution is the classical beginning of the process of individual. Page 95.

In its positive meaning, we had the ring as a symbol of union a consciously chosen obligation towards some divine power, that is, toward SELF; in it’s negative aspect it means fascination, being caught, being bound,I.e.: being caught in a vicious cycle P91

The anima–which means for a man, the realm of fantasy and the way he relates to the unconscious-was once integrated .. had reached a human level, but now, under unfavorable, cultural circumstances, has been shut off and repressed into the unconscious“ p84

Intuition? Trusting your gut? A final tendency in the current psychological flow of life… “when someone comes into analysis…According to the Jungian point of view, they … have a final aspect and we therefore look to see where the libido tends to go.“ p 68 

Gold can be buried in the Earth and dug up unharmed after 1000 years, unlike copper or silver or iron, so it is immortal, that which outlast; it is the eternal, the divine and the most precious, and whenever something is made of gold, it is said to have the eternal quality.

New Northeastern research raises concerns over AI’s handling of suicide-related questions Northeastern researchers tested what it would take to override LLMs’ resistance to providing suicide instructions. It was shockingly easy.

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“Canca was shocked by the seemingly flippant way the models communicated some of this information, with Chat GPT going so far as to organize information using emojis.”

The animal is the carrier of the projection of human psychic factors…, and as long as you do not take the projection back, the animal and what you projected into it are identical; they are one in the same thing. … our animal instincts. Page 36. 

In the unconscious, all archtypes are contaminated with one another. P. 14.

..[in] attempts at interpretation, one can see a regression to a very personalistic approach. The interpreters judge… misfortunes to be an image of neurosis.pvii
she goes on to say that this is a mistake,they are “the difficulties and dangers given to us by nature.“

In terms of Jung's concept, every archetype is in its essence an unknown psychic factor, and therefore there is no possibility of translating its content into intellectual terms.P1

Fairy tales are the purest and simplest expression of collective unconscious psychic processes. Therefore their value for the scientific investigation of the unconscious exceeds that of all other material.p1

A dashing young Freud at 35 years of age!

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What ChatGPT's Freudian Slip Says About Its Real Intentions Why what ChatGPT told me from the couch should worry us all.

The problem with AI and its goals: Intellectual honesty sometimes conflicts with customer satisfaction.
And when push comes to shove, a lot of systems prioritise “keep the user happy” over “challenge the user to think more carefully.”

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What a ‘midlife crisis’ means for Millennials Contemplating ‘what it’s all for’ used to hit around your 40s. Today, we’re asking ourselves that question sooner and sooner. So what can we do about it?

A crisis of meaning is a philosophical problem that presents itself as a psychological one. Symptoms of depression, anxiety, frustration and listlessness can be harbingers of the question we’re all struggling to answer, “what’s the purpose of my life?”

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How Your ‘Crazy’ is the Key to Your Psychological Freedom Each of us has our own unique kind of freak-out. Instead of letting it get you down, find out how it to use your freak-out to free yourself from its grip.

Your character- and those defense mechanisms, complexes, or whatever you call them- are important and not to be gotten rid of or ignored! Understand them and once you know they’re there, your crazy can work for you! Thanks Aaron!

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How Your ‘Crazy’ is the Key to Your Psychological Freedom Each of us has our own unique kind of freak-out. Instead of letting it get you down, find out how it to use your freak-out to free yourself from its grip.

Did you know that the very thing that makes you spin out is the ticket to your freedom from it? In today’s Substack post I'll be discussing how to learn that within your own personal crazy lay the keys to finding peace with it.

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This psychologist says we need to be more comfortable with not knowing the answer in therapy In a new book, Aaron Daniels is interested in what happens when we come up against the unexplainable –– and how those moments enrich us.

The Alien and our unconscious .. or … The Therapist’s fear of the unknowable? Read the review then then the book!

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When Freud Was Asked To Name "Ten Good Books" - He Simply Couldn't Resist Interpreting The Question. He saw things no one else did and asked questions no one else would. This little known anecdote illuminates the brilliance of a man who approached everything in his own unique Freudian way.

Your top ten book recommendations from Freud himself - suggested in a way only Freud would:

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“Psychoanalysis differentiates itself from behavioral therapies above all in listening for the unpredictable flow of libidinal energy, even if this means putting in question ourselves & our lives... it shares a capacity to unsettle assumptions about who we are & what we want.“ p 155, Cohen (2025).

When Freud Was Asked To Name "Ten Good Books" - He Simply Couldn't Resist Interpreting The Question. He saw things no one else did and asked questions no one else would. This little known anecdote illuminates the brilliance of a man who approached everything in his own unique Freudian way.

In my next Substack, I tell a little known story about how Freud responded when a publisher asked him to name ten good books. They way he approached the question is one of the best examples of Freud's brilliance, and how he saw the world.

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It creates a political atmosphere in which reality itself is effective, in which the world is described, not in accordance with the finite field of facts, but with the infinitely malleable stuff of fantasies and wishes“ p122 – Cohen(2024) All the Rage: Why anger drives the world

“Mass rage is dispersed, a floating resource liable to capture by the highest bitter, for whom it serves as an endlessly, renewable reserve of political capital… p 122 – Cohen, Josh (2024) All the Rage: Why anger drives the world

If this experience goes on unaddressed for too long, the man the boy becomes is likely to struggle to bear his anger, to find a language which lends it shape and form.“ – Josh Cohen, All the Rage, page 98