A Psychological Snapshot of America, January 1999

Published in the Brattleboro Reformer, January 15, 1999

“This is as strange a Maze, as ere men trod.” (Shakespeare, Tempest, v. i. 242)

Politicians and news commentators used the word surreal to describe the recent House impeachment proceedings. Republicans and Democrats, conservatives and liberals all used this same word. One commentator said the hearings reminded him of a bad Hollywood script. This was his way of describing surreal feelings.

Explanation of the "Big" Dream Section

When Carl Jung, the psychiatrist and student and colleague and friend of Sigmund Freud, spoke to a member of a tribe in a remote part of Africa (to which no white man had ever gone), he was told that there are small dreams and big dreams.

Short idea (131): To a vast degree, the world is not what we think or imagine or perceive or expect or want it to be.

The Mountain Archetype: A Psychological Approach

 

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