Depth Psychology as Medicine for Love, Logic & Soul.

I help cultivate symbolic literacy against reductionists, and mechanistic mental health models for those who've outgrown influencers and pop psychology and want language grounded in rigor that's both beautiful and true.

My Approach

I’ll teach you to read your psyche like a living poem—part science, part art, like baking croissants or riding a motorcycle—with scholarship, nuance, and depth. No diagnostic reductionism. No self-help jargon. No commodified “healing” scripts. Just a century-old discipline helping you become who you actually are.

Applied Symbolic Literacy

Most people navigate life through hyper-rational mechanistic frameworks or borrowed identity—I am a conservative, or I am a liberal, I am a vegan, or I am a carnivore, I am Christian or I am Muslim, I am an addict or I am sober, I am . . . (medical mental health diagnoses, or attachment style, or trauma label, i.e., victim) or spiritual bypassing (manifesting, toxic positivity, guru/teacher worship)—all reduce the psyche to something it's not.

I offer a humanistic third way: depth psychology as a practical interpretive lens and an inner methodology. You learn to read the symbolic patterns in your relationships, dreams, conflicts, and desires, not to pathologize them, but to work with them.

This is psychology for people who bring high pattern recognition, lived experience, and genuine curiosity. Who wants language grounded in Jungian and Archetypal scholarship, but applicable to real life. Who've outgrown the need for performative validation and refuse to divorce soul from science.

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A Weekly Written Tonic.

Liber Rebis is a Newsletter offering atomic, bite-sized academic essays applying depth psychology to modern life—symbolic literacy, archetypal motifs, intimacy, therapy culture, and individuation. Plus long-form cultural critique that reveals the hidden narratives shaping how we love, suffer, and make meaning.

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Unlearning Love

Reclaiming Desire from Diagnosis & The Love Letters that Tried

Real love letters written between 2021 and 2023. Chapters that dismantle the weaponized language polluting modern intimacy—"love addiction," "trauma bonding," "narcissist," "codependency."

This book doesn't offer recovery. It offers reclamation.

A nonfiction elegy, memoir, and polemic against the influencers, coaches, and celebrity psychologists who've turned human longing into pathology and sold fear as diagnosis.

What you get instead: a humanistic psychology of love that names patterns without collapsing them into identity. That translates suffering into symbolic clarity. That leaves you more sovereign than when you arrived.

"Finally—someone who can talk about the psyche without turning everything into a symptom or a spiritual bypass. These essays give me language for what I've been living but couldn't name."

—Maya Chen, Arts Administrator, Portland
"I've read every attachment theory book. This is the first one that made me feel less diagnosed and more seen. Jae writes about love like it's actually complex, not pathological."

—David Okonkwo, Software Engineer, Brooklyn
"Not a therapy session, not a TikTok diagnosis. Just rigorous, beautiful thinking that treats me like an adult with a soul."

—Rachel Goldstein, PhD Candidate in Comparative Literature, Chicago

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