"A preliminary note needs to be made that studying dissociation can itself be dissociating. So, if in the process of reading this paper you find yourself unaccountably "zoning out", "losing consciousness" or going blank, please recognize that as a symptom that you are coming up against what we all need to come up against, and find a place to re-enter the text with your attention fully connected." --Dissociation Dynamics, the Alice Miller Finding and the Social Organization of Torture

Quotes About Metaphor

Working with Color in Dreams

Easy Dreams: a different take on dream interpretation

Psyche: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Reasearch on Consciousness

A Study Guide for C.G. Jung's Dream Analysis: Notes of the Seminar

CG Jung Seminar Series

Scherer & Ouporov

Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD): About light, depression & melatonin

Jungian Dream Analysis

The Myth of Matriarchal Prehistory

"In I Remember, whenever we were handed something, we were to say 'I remember', or acknowledge the action in some visibly apparent way... The Doors of Perception required that we touch each doorframe as we passed through... At this point, a provocative question was posed: Could we be dreaming at that very moment? ...Stephen stressed the importance of making reality testing habitual and encouraged us to keep a vigilant eye out for dream-like events in waking life which would help prepare us to recognize the anomalies in our dreams." --Diary from Lucid Dream Camp

"FBI agents... monitor Internet sites, libraries and religious institutions without first having to offer evidence of potential criminal activity"

Bomb making in Oklahoma

"The first simulation... involved Pakistan exploding a nuclear device on its own territory to stop an advance by troops from India, which has a 2-to-1 advantage in conventional military forces. It involved Pakistan exploding a 10-kiloton atomic bomb to stop an Indian advance on Muzaffarabad, the capital of the section of Kashmir controlled by Pakistan. (The Hiroshima bomb produced an estimated yield of 18 kilotons.)..."

"Bion perforated the mystique of ontic "objectivity" implicit to logical-positivistic, deterministic science and revealed its own unsuspected mythology--its absolute dependence on sense data. Applying his concept of reversible perspective, he found myths, both collective and personal, to be themselves "scientific deductive systems" in their own right... Bion founded... a numinous discipline based on the abandonment of memory, desire, and understanding... "seeing things as they truly are -- without disguise". He was preoccupied with the question of how we know what we know." --Bion's Transformation in 'O' and the Concept of the "Transcendent Position"

"The group, any group, organisation, society, needs and evolves a structure of tasks, roles, procedures, rules, ascribed status (the 'group culture'), in order to contain the anxiety of the unknown and the responses which, unconsciously, are mobilised to defend against that unknown. The unknown is at the same time what is unknown and feared in each of us and what is unknown in the realities we engage with as we live and work."

"Within the group... one can see operating a number of powerful unconscious and unlearned, quasi-instinctive, strategies of evasion and denial... constituting... "group mentality", opposed to the conscious aims, intentions and efforts of individuals."

Making Absences Present: The Contribution of W. R. Bion to Understanting Unconscious Social Phenomena

"Melanie Klein focused on the content of primitive, psychotic anxieties. She believed that the primitive was never transcended, that we never have a maturational achievement.. She believed that envy and destructiveness loomed [large] in the unconscious... Extremely primitive unconscious phantasies... are bubbling away in the inner world and the simmering of this cauldron is a prerequisite to being able to think at all."

"Before in mathematics, infinity had been a taboo subject. Previously, Gauss had stated that infinity should only be used as "a way of speaking" and not as a mathematical value. Most mathematicians followed his advice and stayed away. However, Georg Cantor would not leave it alone... his new ideas gained him numerous enemies. Many mathematicians just would not accept his groundbreaking ideas that shattered their safe world of mathematics... [Kronecker] did all he could to suppress Cantor's ideas and ruin his life... The rest of [Cantor's] life was spent in and out of mental institutions and his work nearly ceased completely... He died in a mental institution on January 6, 1918... Today, Cantor's work is widely accepted by the mathematical community. His theory on infinite sets reset the foundation of nearly every mathematical field and brought mathematics to its modern form."

"...thoughts are the shadows of our feelings... When we think of those we love or hate.. thought processes are rarely cool and detached - neither should they be... Although we are still rational at such times there is no doubt that our thought processes are not following a machine-like logic... This elusive mental state has been explicitly addressed by Bion with his notion of 'alpha function' which renders barely conscious feelings into the more manageable medium of thoughts and ideas." --Simple Bilogic in the Poems of Louis MacNeice