When I say kraken, you probably picture a giant octopus wrapping its arms around a ship, and that image is not useless, because it belongs to the later life of the monster, but it is not where the kraken is most interesting. The older kraken is stranger than that, because it is not simply a…

Most people arrive at Jung through the wrong door. They hear a few words first: shadow, archetype, dream symbolism, collective unconscious, anima, animus, synchronicity. Then, because these words sound mysterious, they either become fascinated too quickly or dismiss the whole thing as vague spiritual psychology. Both reactions are understandable, but both miss the more basic…

You already know more about Jungian psychology than you think. If you have ever caught yourself despising a quality in someone else that, on honest reflection, lives in you too—that is Jung. If you have ever performed a version of yourself so convincingly that you started to forget where the performance ends—that is Jung. If…