Two Jungian psychoanalysts, Vladislav Solc and George J. Didier, have written a new book exploring the psychological causes and dynamics of religious fanaticism: Dark Religion: Fundamentalism from the Perspective of Jungian Psychology (2018). Their indepth psychological analysis explores what happens when a person is possessed by the unconscious energies of the Self, what has been […]
Abstract Conspiracy theories have occupied increasingly larger domains of cultural and political life. Conspiracism seems to replace or supplement fundamentalist religious beliefs while it supplies material that is in turn used for endorsing political and ideological agendae. Similarities between conspiratorial thinking and fundamentalist creed can be explained by the dynamics of inferiority of consciousness and […]
Bridging the Familiar and the Unfamiliar in the Europe of Today: Cultural, Clinical and Theoretical Perspectives The congress will begin on Thursday 30/08/2018 at 2:00 PM and will end on Sunday 02/09/2018 at 1:15 PM. It will be preceded by an Academic Pre-Congress beginning on Wednesday 29/08. Please take note of this exciting congress. Thursday […]
"These are the times that try men’s souls" Thomas Paine, December 1776. We live in an era in which extremism dominates political discourse, religious life, the news cycle, and our personal lives. For centuries under the banner of God, human societies have amassed countless rounds of ethnic cleansing, deaths, and untold human suffering. We are […]
The Club of friends of Analytical Psychology of Carl Gustav Jung in Slovakia is organising various events. In April 2018, they ran a workshop in the eastern Slovak town of Poprad lead by Vladislav Šolc, a US-based, albeit Slovak-born, Jungian analyst. You can listen to the sample of the program here: Play
Before Introduction There has never been a greater urgency in our world today to expand and deepen, from a depth psychological perspective, our understanding of fanatical religion and fundamentalism. The phenomenon of extreme religion threatens our culture and, at times, our very existence. We have termed this phenomenon: Dark Religion. Almost everyone in one-way or […]
”Aren't we forgetting the true meaning of Christmas? You know, the birth of Santa!”[1] [Bart Simpson] Když v roce 1989 uvedl Matt Groening na obrazovky amerických diváků seriál „Simpsonovi“, ještě netušil, že se tento pořad stane nejdéle hraným animovaným seriálem a nejdéle hraným sitcomem ve Spojených státech.[2] Simpsonovi záhy po svém raketovém startu zastínili show […]
Vlado Šolc
