The Psychology of the Man-Child – Mother Dependence

We’re excited to release the first video in our new 6-part series — The Psychology of the Man-Child: The Neurosis that is Crippling Men.

This course has been over two years in the making! Drawing on the works of Carl Jung, Erich Neumann, James Hollis, Marie-Louise von Franz, Mircea Eliade, and other great thinkers, we combine psychology and mythology to explore the forces that prevent men from cultivating independent manhood. As always, each video is accompanied by timeless art that brings the ideas to life.

In this first video, we explore why masculinity is not a given but a hard-fought achievement, and we examine why so many men succumb to what Carl Jung called “the spirit of regression which threatens us with bondage to the mother and with dissolution and extinction in the unconscious.”