Feeling-toned complexes (from the German gefühlsbetonter Komplex) are groups of memories, ideas, and images clustered around an emotional core. Coined by Carl Jung, these autonomous psychic units function like separate sub-personalities. When triggered by a life event, they hijack normal ego control and drive sudden emotional reactions
James Hillman’s archetypal psychology presents the psyche as fundamentally plural, or or of multiple minds. Human beings do not possess only one psychological voice, value system or centre of intelligence.
Objectivity, in this landscape, usually means not a “view from nowhere,” but “as independent of any one person’s quirks as we can practically make it.”
Listening to your body means paying attention to the signals your whole organism is sending, taking them seriously, and responding in a way that keeps you healthy and steady over time
