Published Works in Depth Psychology
Andreau Charles, LCSW
The Intellectual Record
Essays, scholarly papers, and conversations at the intersection of depth psychology, African cosmological traditions, and the inner life of the individual.
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— C.G. Jung
Essays & Articles
Psychology Today 2026
The Cost of the Life You Built
On the psychic price of high achievement ungrounded in the Self — the invisible weight carried by those who have built everything the world asked for and still feel the hollow at the center.
Psychology Today Forthcoming
The Wound Beneath the Wound
On narcissistic injury, ontological shame, and the distinction between the ego’s defenses and the deeper movement toward individuation.
Scholarly Work
Àjẹ́ and Eros: Toward an African-Centered Account of the Generative Ground in Depth Psychology
Pacifica Graduate Institute · Depth Psychology · In Progress
A scholarly examination of the Yoruba concept of Àjẹ́ as a cosmological account of primordial generativity and creativity — and what its exclusion from depth psychological theory reveals about the tradition’s narrower account of the psychic ground. Engaging Jung, Hillman, Hollis, and Brewster.
Dreams as a Cultural Bridge to the Unconscious
Pacifica Graduate Institute · Depth Psychology
An exploration of dream traditions across ancient, indigenous, and Africanist frameworks — arguing that the dream is not merely a psychological artifact but a living site of ancestral and cultural transmission that depth psychology has only partially mapped.
The Transcendent Function, Racial Wound, and the Possibility of Radical Love
Pacifica Graduate Institute · Depth Psychology
On Jung’s theoretical failures regarding race, the transcendent function as a healing mechanism in racialized wounding, and the convergence of bell hooks’ framework of radical love with the Jungian individuation process.
Interviews & Appearances
Podcast Guest Appearance
Narcissism, Shame, and the False Self
A conversation on the clinical and psychic dimensions of narcissistic wounding — what distinguishes healthy narcissism from the wound that has no name, and how depth psychology approaches healing from beneath the surface.
Podcast Guest Appearance
Depth Psychology and the African Psyche
On African cosmological traditions as living psychological frameworks — the role of ancestral inheritance, communal belonging, and Yoruba concepts of the generative self in clinical work with diasporic and multiethnic patients.