“New” can mean eight different things, and confusing them leads to throwing out treasures with the trash. Assagioli on the meanings of new and what genuine novelty looks like. By Roberto AssagioliDocs. #23697, #23698, #23699, Assagioli Archives, Florence. [i]Original title: Che Cosa Significa “Nuovo?”Translated and edited with notes by Jan Kuniholm Editorial NoteThe abstract and […]
Good Will To Understand Each Other
What most annoys us in others is often what’s flourishing in us. Assagioli on the good will to understand and the projection trap that keeps us alone. By Roberto AssagioliAssagioli Archive, Florence. Source: psicoenergetica.com.Original title: Buona Volunta di Comprenderci [i] Translated and edited with notes by Jan Kuniholm [ii] Editorial NoteThe abstract and contextual subtitle in […]
Masculine Ideals and Feminine Ideals
Assagioli at thirty-three, in 1921, on masculine and feminine ideals: not which sex is superior, but how each can develop the qualities of the other. By Roberto AssagioliRome, 1921 [i]Doc. #23471, Assagioli Archive, Florence.Original title: Ideali Maschili e Ideali FemminiliTranslated and edited with notes by Jan Kuniholm [ii] Editorial NoteThe abstract and contextual subtitle in […]
Psychology’s Contribution to Right Human Relations
We are enslaved by whatever we identify with and freed by whatever we can step back from. Assagioli on disidentification, psychological types, and the psychology of right human relations. By Roberto AssagioliTalk given at Poppi, October 9, 1952Docs. #23209 and #23210, Assagioli Archive in FlorenceOriginal title: Contributo della psicologia ai retti rapporti umaniTranslated and edited […]
Metapsychic Faculties
Psychic experiences are more common than science admits and less glamorous than popular culture suggests. Assagioli surveys five metapsychic faculties: what they are, how they work, and what they cost. By Roberto AssagioliAssagioli Archive in FlorenceOriginal title: Le Facoltà MetapsichicheTranslated by Gordon Symons Editorial NoteThe abstract and contextual subtitle in this online edition have been […]
Understanding – Evaluation – Choice – Plan of Action
Knowing yourself is one thing; understanding what you find is another. Transformative understanding, Assagioli argues, reshapes what it touches, then calls us to choose and concentrate everything on what we choose. By Roberto AssagioliCourse of Lessons on Psychosynthesis, Lesson XIII, 23 April 1933Doc. #23151, Assagioli Archives, FlorenceOriginal title: Comprensione-Valutazione-Scelta-Piano di AzioneTranslated and edited with notes […]
How to Educate the Memory
A camera needs light to fix an image. To educate the memory, Assagioli argues, means mastering impression, repetition, and, most surprisingly, the art of forgetting well. By Roberto Assagioli [1] Docs. #23134 and #23135, Assagioli Archives, FlorenceOriginal title: Come si educa la memoriaTranslated and edited with notes by Jan Kuniholm Editorial NoteThe abstract and contextual […]
An Overview of Psychological Life
From the double awakening at dawn to the direction of the unconscious at night, Assagioli’s psychological way of living treats the whole day as a practice ground. By Roberto AssagioliLast lecture of the 1967 Lecture CourseDoc. #24002, Assagioli Archives, FlorenceOriginal title: Panorama del Vivere PsicologicoTranslated and edited with notes by Jan Kuniholm Editorial NoteThe abstract […]
The Psychology of Idea-Forces and Psychagogy
Some ideas inform; others change lives. Idea-forces, Assagioli argued in 1909, are where thought and emotion fuse into one energy, and psychosynthesis the science of cultivating them. By Roberto Assagioli 1909 [1]Assagioli Archives, FlorenceOriginal title: La Psicologia delle Idee-forza e la PsicogogiaTranslated and edited with notes by Jan Kuniholm Editorial NoteThe abstract and contextual subtitle […]
Sigmund Freud’s Ideas On Sexuality
What separates healthy mastery of the sexual instinct from destructive repression? Assagioli’s analysis of Freud’s ideas on sexuality turns on exactly that question. By Roberto Assagioli1931Docs. #23472–23475, Assagioli Archive, Florence [1]Published in Biblioteca dei Curiosi, Issue No. 58, “Tre Lezioni di Sessuologia,” 1931Original title: Le Idee di Sigmund Freud sulla SessualitàTranslated and edited with notes […]
