Growing Down: Avoidance, Decay, Depressive Cycles
In this essay I explore the riches of the depths of psyche, particularly as experienced through our depressive cycles that arise alongside habits of avoidance. What does it mean to tend the flowers but not the roots? We are culturally obsessed with striving upwards, and we avoid the earthen, darkly whispers of the unconscious below the surface where the seeds of both or suffering and creativity are buried. These are some basics of Carl Jung's depth psychology. The quote from James Hillman comes from Re-Visioning Psychology, p. 99.
