Honouring the method while refusing the doctrine: Freudian theology names the line where psychoanalysis stops serving growth and starts distorting the whole person By Kenneth Sørensen Abstract In this essay, Kenneth Sørensen examines what psychosynthesis retains from psychoanalysis and what it leaves behind. Drawing on a selection of Assagioli’s own statements, he shows that psychosynthesis […]
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Co-Existence – The Central Truth Of Psychosynthesis
Nothing in us needs to be condemned or amputated: peaceful co-existence of every inner voice is the first step, and synthesis the last By Roberto AssagioliJuly 17, 1972 From the Assagioli Archive in FlorenceOriginal title: La Verità Centrale Della PsicosintesiTranslated from Italian by Gordon Symons Editorial NoteThe abstract and contextual subtitle in this online edition […]
Psychosynthesis and Spiritual Life
Intuition deserves the same scientific respect as instinct – if psychology can study a tropism, it can study an illumination, and spiritual culture demands that it does By Roberto AssagioliArchivio Assagioli – FlorenceOriginal title: Psicosintesi E Vita SpiritualeTranslated from Italian by Gordon Symons Editorial NoteThe abstract and contextual subtitle in this online edition have been […]
Psychological Poisons and Drugs
If merchants can advertise soap with such success, why not courage and joy? Psychological advertising places a phrase where you cannot avoid it, repeated until it becomes an inner force. By Roberto AssagioliOriginal title: Feleni e Farmaci PsicologiciCourse of Lessons on The Latent Energies In Us, and Their Use In eEducation and Medicine (1934)Translated from […]
To Know The Human Soul
No catalogue of traits or drives captures who we truly are: every person is a spiritual center, and silence is the way to reach it By Roberto AssagioliArchivio Assagioli – Florence 1932Original title: Per Conoscere l’animo UmanoTranslated from Italian by Gordon Symons Editorial NoteThe abstract and contextual subtitle in this online edition have been added […]
The Psychosynthesis of Nations and of Humanity
A nation is more than its borders and its commerce: the national Soul holds a vocation, and no country is too small to fulfil it By Roberto AssagioliFrom the magazine: La Cultura nel Mondo, No. 3, mag–giu 1968Translated from Italian by Gordon SymonsSee also this article: Psychosynthesis – Individual and Social Editorial NoteThe abstract and […]
