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Zoran Arizanovic, Breda-based Jungian therapist, painter, working with adults onsite and remote, IAAP router working under supervision

06/10/2026

In my third year of training as a Jungian analyst i wrote an essay called On positive aspects of Trickster.

The trickster, the fool, the joker gets a lot of bad reputation. As a painter i see someone else: a figure who brings change, new perspectives and fresh air into a debate and into life.

The same summer we travelled to Aachen. We love old buildings and history, so we were drawn to a very old wooden pub in the city centre. We found a random table in a small wooden room.

On the small window opposite us, a stained glass trickster was looking at us. Till Eulenspiegel, a mirror in his hand, an owl above his head.

29/09/2026

Ancient Rome kept a set of doors that reported whether the country was at war.

The Janus Geminus stood in the Forum. The gates were open in time of war and closed to mark peace. Livy, Plutarch and Suetonius all record that function. Plutarch says the gates stayed shut through the reign of Numa. After that they stood open almost all the time.

Janus himself is bifrons. One face to what has been, one to what is coming. He is not a war god. He is the god of the doorway and of beginnings, and the Romans named him before the other gods in prayer.

Open was the normal condition.

26/09/2026

Jung wrote this in 1943, in an essay about gifted children.

Most of the essay focuses on the child. Then it turns the atention the other way, toward the person who does the educating.
For me as a teacher this is especially valuable even after eighty years since it was written, we are dealing with simmilar situation daily.

From The Gifted Child, in The Development of Personality.

18/09/2026

The End :

8 weeks of EDT density training,what happened.
Pull-ups: 19 → 31 reps, unassisted. Dips: 25 → 49 reps at the peak. Chin-ups: 14 → 30 reps.
Banded pull-ups: 26 → 35 reps, same band.
Weekly pull volume jumped 46% in the first three weeks, then held at 86-87 reps for three weeks straight
— the ceiling kept climbing even after the easy gains ran out.
Load went up across the board— 50 reps at the old weight, then heavier, then back to work:
Leg press: 80kg → 90kg (100kg locked in next), DB lateral raise: 6kg → 7kg per side (8kg next)
Goblet squat: 20kg → 24kg, Barbell RDL: 70kg → 75kg
Barbell overhead press: 40kg → 50kg, Kettlebell swing: 20kg → 24kg
Kettlebell halo: 20kg → 24kg, Dumbell row: 24kg → 26kg per side
DB bench press: 24kg → 26kg per side, KB overhead triceps extension: 24kg → 28kg

Time in the top two heart-rate zones stayed around 50-54% of every session, load increases included.

04/09/2026

Fifty-four today. 7 to 8 in the morning, five times per week, gym :), its been like this for last ten years.
Current program for 8 week cycle is Charles Staley's EDT. Three 15-minute PR zones, opposing pairs: Pull-ups and dips, row and bench, curls and overhead triceps. 236 reps, 13,053.6 kg, 42:01 on the clock, 22:48 of it in Z4-Z5. Pull-ups came in at 31, a new best at 99 kg bodyweight. Dips dropped 11 in the same pair, so that one goes on the watch list for next Friday. Monday and Wednesday different pairs, Tuesday,
Thursday light Z2 cardio and some stretching and core work.

02/09/2026

For a lot of people, the myths of Greek male heroes are a big part of growing up and of defining what it is to be a young man, a father, a colleague, a partner.

Some days feel like Sisyphus and his stone. Some ask for a Herculean feat. And sometimes an unfavourable situation arrives to show that we were flying too high, like Icarus.

For me it has always been Prometheus. Fire taken from the gods, given to people. Liver eaten, fire still given.

Drawing: pencil on paper, mine. Jungian therapy in Breda — arizanovic.com

29/08/2026

In the Jungian reading of fairy tales, Cinderella sifting seeds from ashes is not merely a story of endurance but a daily image of discernment, the quiet work of telling what still nourishes from what has already burned out.

The seeds are what we keep, the ashes are what we let go, and the sorting itself is a practice we return to every morning without ceremony. Jungian therapy offers a space where this sorting becomes conscious, where the questions of what is useful, what is nourishing, and what has served its time can be held with patience rather than urgency. In that setting, the capacity to differentiate, to know oneself apart from the expectations and residues of others, gradually finds its way into everyday encounters, until the work of the session and the work of living begin to feel like the same thing.

Summer break is behind me now, and I am accepting new clients for in-person therapy in Breda and online sessions wherever you are. You can reach me through any of my social media channels or directly at arizanovic.com.

Image , one of my own , acrlyic on board based on some old national geographic photo from my student days :)

16/08/2026

Old man and the sea ;) 54. Status: Packed. Caffeine: High. Patience: Questionable.
The lineup is stacked , ,
Which one will get me seabass?

14/08/2026

"Soul and body are not two things. They are one."
Carl Jung, Zarathustra Seminar

Jung didnt treat the body as a container the psyche rides around in. the body is its own form of consciousness. dreams speak in bodily states, and integrating instinct, the animal sphere, is what gives a person actual body. weight. presence. natural life is the soil the soul grows in, not the thing you rise above.

so. the log in the image is my Friday training. Currently I do eight weeks total: four weeks , one week off, and again four weeks EDT.
Escalating density training by . This is one of the most effective and well designed training approaches IMO and at 54 years old, believe me I tried them all, 531, split, volume based and strength focused, Norwegian 4x4 and HIIT. This totals at six lifts, 258 reps, 44 minutes + warmup and in about 1hr you are in and out.
At 54 yrs benefits are real, after this sitting by computer is not a problem, and no pains and injuries to speak off, all goes better on a body thats not being dragged along behind me. individuation isnt just a head activity. particularly not at 54.

12/08/2026

IMO Some of the best things in life are fermented.
W**e. Cheese. Sourdough. B**r... Pickles
(And whatever is currently hissing in this jar on my counter.)
Yes, in that order.

Adres

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