The Spirit of the Age

Hello, my name is Rogelio Martin Lara, I am a Psychotherapist with a Jungian Analytical Orientation. First of all, I welcome you and invite you to reflect on how human beings have an innate need to explore, to ask ourselves why our lives happen in a certain way? We look for answers that give meaning to our lives. existence, or also, we look for ways to explain the world to ourselves.

Carl Gustav Jung used Hegel's expression: spirit of the age (Zeitgeist), to designate everything that surrounds a person, both his society and the moment in which he lives, the margins within which he thinks and feels, what is imposed for the immediate surroundings and for the group from which it emerges. Gómez Gray, A. (2017)

Each era has its one-sidedness, its prevention and its emotional suffering. An epoch is like an individual soul, it presents its peculiar and limited conscious disposition and in itself contains what is necessary for the healing or destruction of an epoch (Jung, 2007, p. 91).

This reflects our nature and to a certain extent, the state of our consciousness that is seeking to expand. As a result of this, we have accumulated ancient wisdom that, curiously, is more difficult for us to access day by day. Proof of this is the way we live in the world today. In which technological advances as the spearhead have transformed our reality with their pros and cons.

Technological innovation puts us just a few clicks away from finding the answers to an infinite number of questions we ask ourselves daily. However, it is interesting to see how the numbers of people with depression and anxiety do not decrease, or how wars and civil crises persist around the planet. Modern man's focus on material goods or turning to the promise of a spiritual freedom that never comes is revealing in that these attempts manage to satisfy worldly needs momentarily, but have failed to address the deep needs of the human soul.

This space: The Spirit of the Age, is a blog whose main objective is to provide you with timely information, corresponding to the events of the fast-paced and changing world in which we live, so that you can find contributions that are useful to you on a daily basis.

Coming to you through scientific articles, opinion articles, essays and reflections. You can also find collaborations with specialists from other areas of knowledge and with other psychotherapists.