May 28, 2026
Every archetype has a dual aspect: light and dark, and ‘mother’ as devouring and destructive is the dark side of this ever-present, over-arching archetype. The mother’s life-giving, bright aspect is counterbalanced by her engulfing, attacking aspect. The devouring mother is present across cultures in myth, fairy...
May 21, 2026
In this final episode of our series on Jungian alchemy, we explore coniunctio, the union of opposites that gives rise to new wholeness.
There are many ways in which we might encounter coniunctio in outer life. We might fall in love, form a partnership, or undertake transformative work with a psychotherapist. In...
May 14, 2026
Erotic dreams are extremely common. We may experience
them as pleasurable, exciting and moving, or as disturbing and
upsetting. It can be hard to talk about erotic dreams, even in
therapy, as they insist on attending to secret satisfactions and
shames.
There is relatively little written on the subject from a...
May 7, 2026
In his new book, The End of the World, author and psychoanalyst JON MILLS considers the question of why humanity seems bent on self-destruction.
We face famine, climate change, obscene wealth disparities, and threats of global war and nuclear annihilation. Yet the majority of us seem to prefer living either in denial,...