Relational
When the Halo Falls, Love Grows Up
At first, love feels like you’ve found someone who completes you. But actually, you’re meeting someone onto whom you projected your own missing hopes and unclaimed parts. Psychologists call that projection. Hollis says this is how love starts — and also what must evolve.
The full breakdown — the context, the shift, and a question to sit with — opens in the Insights app.
The thinker
Jungian Voice for Relationship Truth
James Hollis, Ph.D., is a Jungian analyst and author of *The Eden Project*, *Living an Examined Life*, and more. He makes deep psychological ideas accessible, drawing on Jung and Marie-Louise von Franz to explain how love can mature.
Based on Dr. James Hollis, P.h.D: Creating a Meaningful Life, summarised and reframed by Insights.
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