Audacity Blog

Demystifying Archetypes – Lionel Messi As The Messiah

It took me about two years of reading Jung daily and a decent experience with active imagination to fully grasp this idea. But what actually inspired me to write this section was witnessing Argentina winning the World Cup. As a Brazilian living in Buenos Aires, this experience was utterly astonishing. I’ll begin by introducing the […]

The Psychological Types Unraveled

In the article on shadow integration, we explored Carl Jung’s model of the psyche and I introduced you to psychodynamics. If you were paying attention, here’s the moment of the truth, you’ll remember that I said that the most important concept in Jungian Psychology is attitude. This is basically how a person is wired, their […]

Reading Guide – An Introduction To Jung’s Collected Works

This is, without a doubt, the most frequently asked question I get: “So how do I get started with Jung?”. This question is completely justified since Jung’s Collected Works weren’t put in a very logical sequence, they were organized by themes rather than chronologically. Also, Jung expected a high degree of erudition from his readers. […]

Individuation – The Audacity To Carve Your Own Path

Let’s start with some juicy words from the man himself: “This is not to preach “individualism,” but only the necessary pre-condition for responsible action: namely that a man should know himself and his own peculiarities and have the courage to stand by them. Only when a man lives in his own way is he responsible […]

Quarrels With The Inferior Function – An Intuitive Tale

Today we shall continue the subject of my last post, and explore the inferior function. This turned out completely different than what I had planned, as I allowed my intuition to come through. I hope you enjoy this one, it gets very personal. This was the quote that inspired me: The Inferior Function is: “The […]

“The way is not without danger. Everything good is costly, and the development of personality is one of the most costly of all things” C.G. Jung

Shall we begin with the full quote: “One man will now take chiefly what comes to him from the outside, and the other what comes from the inside. Moreover, the law of life demands that what they take from outside and inside will be the very things that were always excluded before. This reversal of […]