Adam Blatner
Words and Images from the Mind of Adam Blatner
December, 2004
Archetypes: The Relevance of the Concept
Carl Jung’s concept of “archetype” presents a category of motivation that fuses imagery, desire, and basic human instinct. One of the values of this concept is that it offers a way to unify the diversity of theories of motivation in dynamic psychology. Finding a Common Denominator One way of thinking about the primary differences among […]
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Imaging God
People generate an image of God, and this is often subconscious. They may consciously try to deny that they hold any image of God, because they’ve been taught not to do so. It’s quite taboo in Islamic and Jewish traditions to ever picture God, and for Jews, even God’s name is taboo. All this is […]
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