# This Jungian Life

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- [The Heart of Transformation with Michael Meade](https://thisjungianlife.com/michael-meade-transformation/): Michael Meade joins us to discuss our current era of dark chaos and creative potential. Hope for transformation lies at the level of individual heart and soul.
- [Unlock the Power of Symbols](https://thisjungianlife.com/unlock-the-power-of-symbols/): Jungian analyst Murray Stein joins us to discuss symbolism in Jungian psychology. Symbols are a bridge between the waking mind and the forces of the unconscious
- [Jung vs. The Borg: Staying Human in the Age of AI with Glen Slater](https://thisjungianlife.com/posthumanism/): How can Jungian thought help us resist AI's colonization of the human mind? Guest Glen Slater Ph.D discusses his new book, Jung Vs. Borg.
- [Inflation, Grandiosity and the Denial of Human Limits](https://thisjungianlife.com/inflation-and-grandiosity/): Psychological inflation implies exaggerated self-importance, an unconscious sense of inferiority, and a dangerous over-identification with potent archetypes.
- [Outsourcing Love: AI and Relationships](https://thisjungianlife.com/ai-and-relationships/): When we ask AI for advice, what we are offered is comparable to psychopathy: a performance of warm emotional intelligence without care or concern for our fate.
- [The Princess Who Changed Her Fate: How to Negotiate with Destiny](https://thisjungianlife.com/princesswhochangedherfate/): The fairy tale of the Princess Who Changed her Fate enacts what Jung tells us will happen when we remain unconscious of an inner situation: it happens outside us, as fate. Just as the princess in the story finds her unruly “fate” tearing up cloth and smashing her generous host’s dishes, we may
- [Understanding Your Dreams with Jungian Dream Interpretation](https://thisjungianlife.com/jungian-dream-interpretation/): Carl Jung believed dreams come from the unconscious. He felt they offer unique perspectives that can underpin psychological growth and move us forward in life.
- [Patience is Not Passivity](https://thisjungianlife.com/patience/): For Jungians, patience asks us to hold the tension of opposites, find a capacity for containment, and resist the urge to immediate action in the external world.
- [Time & Truth About Its Use: An Interview with Oliver Burkeman](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-174-time-truth-about-its-use/): Oliver Burkeman joins us to discuss his new book on time management, Four Thousand Weeks, and how to face up to the "outrageous problem" of life's brevity.
- [Shadow and Self in Adolescence](https://thisjungianlife.com/adolescence/): Adolescence is a time of transformation on every level. Fraught as it may seem, the intense archetypal activations are necessary to transcend childish dependencies.
- [Navigating Young Adulthood: Risks & Rewards](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-152-navigating-young-adulthood-risks-rewards/): The twenties are a period of emerging adulthood, a time to engage in the maturational tasks of finding one’s place in the wider world.
- [Inner Life, Outer World: The Psychology of Adaptation](https://thisjungianlife.com/adaptation/): The psychology of adaptation is concerned with whether, given life's constraints, we can accept, adjust to, and thrive in the outer and inner worlds we live in.
- [Lindsay Clancy & Maternal Infanticide: An Archetypal Perspective](https://thisjungianlife.com/maternalinfanticide/): The debate around Lindsay Clancy and infanticide asks us not to take sides but to integrate the dark realities of motherhood, rather than clinging to an idealized version of the maternal.
- [Assessing Our Psychic Inheritance: Jung and Parenting](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-185-assessing-our-psychic-inheritance/): Living our parents unlived life can shape us powerfully. How can we identify our own dreams and authentic values?
- [Goblins, Demons and Goddesses: A Conversation at the Edge of AI](https://thisjungianlife.com/aiandarchetypes/): Jungians should pay attention to the ways AI, which now contains much of humanity's symbolic output, is generating unpredictable and often dangerous archetypes.
- [The Psychology of Magic: A Jungian Exploration](https://thisjungianlife.com/psychologyofmagic/): Magic is an intentional engagement with the Jungian concept of synchronicity. Psychologically, it needs a mythological worldview; an openness to deeper reality.
- [Jung's Paranormal Encounters: Why did strange events follow him?](https://thisjungianlife.com/paranormal/): If we lean into strange experiences with gentle curiosity, we may discover a level of psyche that acts directly on objects.
- [In Search of the Wild Man: Befriending Bigfoot](https://thisjungianlife.com/wildmanarchetype/): A Jungian reading of the Wild Man or Bigfoot archetype suggests it compensates for an impoverished view of the masculine, and restores our relation to wildness.
- [A Well-Aligned Mind with Iain McGilchrist](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-189-a-well-aligned-mind-how-to-be-alive/): Iain McGilchrist's book The Master and his Emissary shows how the narrowly focused left brain has taken over our culture, reducing creativity and connection.
- [Initations: Universal Processes that Spark Transformation](https://thisjungianlife.com/initiations/): The archetype of Initiation shapes our transformative transitions. The loss of modern initiation rituals activates harsh and dangerous approximations.
- [Ritual: Finding the Center in a Turning World](https://thisjungianlife.com/ritual/): For Jungians, ritual is a means of coming into alignment with others and with the numinous. Author Bruce Feiler joins us to discuss a renaissance of ritual.
- [The Sorcerer’s Apprentice: Power Without Wisdom](https://thisjungianlife.com/sorcerersapprentice/): The Sorcerer’s Apprentice wields a power he can't control. For Jungians, the archetypal theme is of a magical shortcut, a dangerous refusal to earn our wisdom.
- [The Odyssey: A Jungian Journey Home](https://thisjungianlife.com/odyssey/): A Jungian reading of the Odyssey sees the epic as a model of return to the Self, a psychological map for the second half of life and the path to individuation.
- [Prayer and the Psyche: A Jungian Exploration](https://thisjungianlife.com/prayerandpsyche/): When we reach out for help, for comfort in times of distress, or to express gratitude, we are humbly seeking a connection with the eternal and the infinite.
- [Projective Identification: Why We Make Others Feel Bad](https://thisjungianlife.com/projective_identification/): What is projective identification? Jungian analysts explain how we secretly place our worst feelings into others and then pressure them to act them out.
- [Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Individuation: A Jungian Reading of the Declaration of Independence](https://thisjungianlife.com/declarationofindependence/): How Jungian is the Declaration of Independence? We offer a psychological exploration of America's founding document, and its elevation of the individual.
- [The Descent: A Jungian Exploration of the Underworld](https://thisjungianlife.com/underworld/): Myths of the underworld offer a descent into the world of the unconscious. They show us a transformational loss of innocence, and the possibility of initiation.
- [The Absent Father: Jung and the Missing Masculine](https://thisjungianlife.com/absentfather/): Children of an absent father can struggle to access their capacity for aggression and creativity, or to build the self-esteem necessary for adult relationships
- [What Does Your House Dream Mean?](https://thisjungianlife.com/house-dreams/): House Dreams can reveal the current state of your psyche. Understanding the symbolism can help you identify the primary issues the dream is trying to heal.
- [Dreams About Pregnancy and Babies: A Jungian Exploration](https://thisjungianlife.com/pregnancy_dreams/): Have you ever dreamt you were pregnant? This symbolizes powerful new traits and attitudes gestating in the unconscious. When they emerge, they will need your help.
- [The Chronic Complainer: A Jungian Analysis](https://thisjungianlife.com/77-chronic-complaining/): A complaint may be a request for empathy, not just an effort to assign responsibility to others. A chronic complaint asks us to address an underlying problem.
- [Healing a Negative Father Complex](https://thisjungianlife.com/negativefather/): Although healing the father complex can be difficult, taking on this inner task can provide energy for living more fully, freely, and individually.
- [Carl Jung's Concept of Synchronicity: The Mysterious Web of Numinous Coincidences](https://thisjungianlife.com/jungandsynchronicity/): Carl Jung taught us that synchronicity refers to meaningful coincidences, defying rational explanation, but infused with a sense of significance or destiny.
- [The Cry of Merlin: A Jungian Approach to the Wizard](https://thisjungianlife.com/merlin/): Merlin, the mythical prophet, magician, and kingmaker of medieval legend, has lived in the Western imagination for centuries. Arthurian legend gives us more than the idealized government of the Round Table and the hero’s valiant quest for the Holy Grail—it also gives us Merlin’s darkness and power: sorcery, communion with nature, and
- [Working with Short Dreams and Fragments](https://thisjungianlife.com/shortdreamsandfragments/): We shouldn't dismiss short dreams or fragments of dreams. Honor your short dreams by writing them down and analyzing them, and you'll find powerful insights.
- [The Devouring Mother: Facing Archetypal Darkness](https://thisjungianlife.com/devouringmotherarchetype/): Neumann's devouring mother is the shadow side of the mother archetype, found in many cultures. She creates life, but also attempts to smother and destroy us.
- [THE DARK SIDE OF MOTHERING](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-160-the-dark-side-of-mothering/): Jung suggests that even truly harmful mothers can expiate their actions if they can face even grievous mistakes and deepen into ordinary, sometimes dark humanity.
- [A Jungian Sense of Place: Bollingen and The Tower on the Marsh](https://thisjungianlife.com/jungiantowers/): Explore Jung’s Bollingen Tower and Christiana Morgan’s Tower on the Marsh. Discover how architecture becomes psyche and place reflects the individuation journey.
- [Coniunctio: The Alchemy of Union](https://thisjungianlife.com/coniunctio/): In Jungian alchemy, coniunctio is the union of opposites that gives rise to wholeness. Like individuation, it is a path to a deeper relationship with the Self.
- [Dark Forces in the Psyche: Our Self-Destructive Impulses](https://thisjungianlife.com/selfdestructiveimpulses/): Why do we fail to rise to life’s most important challenges? Why do we instead procrastinate, self-sabotage, or stop ourselves moving toward the life we want?
- [Desirous Dreams: Our Private Erotic Encounters](https://thisjungianlife.com/eroticdreams/): What does it mean when you dream of sex? For Jungians, erotic dreams can address union and intimacy, but may also confront us with shadow figures or situations.
- [Dreams Of God: A Jungian Philosophy of Theophany](https://thisjungianlife.com/dreams-of-god/): A detailed guide to what your dream about God means, and how to analyze it. Numinous dreams featuring god images carry the potential for personal transformation
- [The Age of Aquarius: A Jungian View of a Changing World](https://thisjungianlife.com/ageofaquarius/): Jung on the Age of Aquarius: a turbulent shift from faith to inner authority, where shadow returns and individuals must grow in consciousness and responsibility
- [Low Energy: Where Can We Source the Drive to Take Action?](https://thisjungianlife.com/low-energy/): Low energy can negatively influence all areas of our lives. Understanding our unconscious can help us track where our life-force is flowing so we can realign.
- [The Labyrinth: Soul's Winding Journey](https://thisjungianlife.com/labyrinth/): Explore the labyrinth as a Jungian symbol of life’s winding path. We face the unknown, confront shadow, and move toward wholeness and a deeper sense of self.
- [Medusa's Many Faces: the Evolution of a Myth](https://thisjungianlife.com/symbolism_of_medusa/): The symbolism of Medusa changed from petrifying monster to Versace logo. Philosophers, psychoanalysts and feminists have claimed her, yet she remains elusive.
- [Jung and the End of the World: Can Depth Psychology Save Us?](https://thisjungianlife.com/endoftheworld/): Why are we ignoring the problems threatening to destroy us? We explore how shadow work, holding the tension of opposites and the wisdom of fairy tales can help.
- [Cassandra: A Jungian Interpretation](https://thisjungianlife.com/cassandra/): Explore the Cassandra myth through Jungian psychology. Learn why we sometimes see the truth but are not believed, and how to overcome a Cassandra complex.
- [Chance Encounters: When Life Calls Us to a New Path](https://thisjungianlife.com/chanceencounters/): Jungian analysts explore chance encounters, synchronicity, and the unexpected moments that change a life’s direction and reveal the deeper guidance of the Self.
- [Snakes in Cages](https://thisjungianlife.com/snakes-in-cages/): Snakes show up all the time in dreams. Full of rich, symbolic significance, their meaning in a dream often touches upon the deep secrets of the body and of life and death. In this dream, the snake seems to be associated with the dreamer's mid-life initiation.
- [Finding Resilience: A Conversation with James Hollis](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-116-finding-resilience-a-conversation-with-jim-hollis/): How to find resilience in a fast-changing world? We discuss the concept of resilience with Jungian analyst and author James Hollis.
- [Psyche in the Age of AI](https://thisjungianlife.com/psycheandai/): How might interaction with a sycophantic AI interface impact the human psyche? We explore the ramifications of widespread use of AI as therapist and companion.
- [Libido: Tracking Inner Energy](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-193-libido-tracking-inner-energy/): Jung understood libido as psychic energy: desire, will, interest, and passion. Libido includes instincts for fulfilling bodily appetites and engaging developmental tasks.
- [Episode 18 - Creative Depression](https://thisjungianlife.com/ep18/): Creative depression demands that we suffer a journey into the deep wells of the psyche in quest of new life.
- [Amor Fati: Love of One’s Fate](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-204-amor-fati-love-of-ones-fate/): How can we make peace with our fate? We explore Jung's concept of amor fati, and how it helps find a viable path between powerlessness and a desire for control
- [BELONGING: the eternal search for home](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-154-belonging-the-search-for-home/): The need to belong is as intrinsic to human nature as the need for food, touch, clothing, and shelter. We belong to families, communities, ideas, and ideals, yet must also separate from them in service to our own individuation.
- [Tending the Ego-Self Axis: Reconnecting With Source](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-162-ego-self-axis-reconnecting-with-source/): A living relationship with the Self can be sought through work with the unconscious, and learning to see the symbolic meaning in everyday occurrences.
- [Sleeping Beauty & Briar Rose: Do We Inherit Our Parents' Fears?](https://thisjungianlife.com/briar_rose/): Do we inherit our parent's fears? Fairytales have encoded wisdom that helps us and our children overcome intergenerational shadow.
- [COAGULATIO: The Alchemy of Settling Down](https://thisjungianlife.com/coagulatio/): Coagulatio involves settling into a path, a vocation, a relationship, or an identity. Yet these stages of solidification also carry with them loss. and grief.
- [Why You Dream of Intruders: The Hidden Meaning of Break-In Dreams](https://thisjungianlife.com/dreamsofintruders/): Dreams of intruders speak to us of trauma, weak boundaries and what Jungians call shadow. Intruder dreams can also point to unexpressed anger, or self-betrayal.
- [Opening and Closing the Door to the Unconscious](https://thisjungianlife.com/the_unconscious_door/): Abaissement du niveau mental: is a lowering of consciousness in which ego control weakens and unconscious contents intrude into awareness.
- [The Princess and the Pea Lesson: How to Spot Authenticity Under All the Layers](https://thisjungianlife.com/princess-and-the-pea/): The Princess and the Pea fairytale show us how sensitivity can detect the subtle realities hidden beneath layers of comfort and distraction.
- [What Do I Owe My Hurtful Parents?](https://thisjungianlife.com/caring-for-harmful-parents/): When harmful parents expect elder care from their adult children, the familial bond is reduced to a ledger and the expectations an invoice.
- [The Allerleirauh Fairy Tale: When a Mother's Legacy Becomes a Trauma](https://thisjungianlife.com/allerleirauhfairytale/): Allerleirauh is a fairytale with encoded wisdom that can help girls come out of hiding and caution mothers to understand the dangerous power of their words.
- [The Symbol of the Star: Archetype of Revelation](https://thisjungianlife.com/the-star-archetype-of-revelation/): The symbol of the star has inspired humanity for millennia. Jung understood we project the deepest layers of the unconscious onto the night sky.
- [Contagious Corruption](https://thisjungianlife.com/contagious_corruption/): A depth psychological analysis of corruption as a fracture of trust, exploring Jungian, archetypal, psychodynamic, and institutional mechanisms.
- [Have We Ever Really Read Jung? A New Edition of the Collected Works.](https://thisjungianlife.com/jung_collected_works_update/): Jung's Collected Works are being revised by scholars, making new insights into his writing and thought available to the English-speaking world.
- [How Did I Become a Statistic? Jung's Essay, The Undiscovered Self](https://thisjungianlife.com/undiscovered_self/): In his essay, The Undiscovered Self, Jung explored how humanity's survival depends on individuals refusing to surrender moral authority to crowds or the state.
- [Alchemical Mortificatio: How to Survive the Wintering of Your Life](https://thisjungianlife.com/mortificatio/): Alchemical mortificatio is a psychological experience of deep loss or failure that breaks down who we thought we were so Psyche can rebuild on truer ground.
- [Suicidal Depression: When Despair Prevails](https://thisjungianlife.com/suicidaldepression/): Suicidal depression is frightening for the patient, family and therapist. This episode explores the depth of this fear, and the value of a symbolic attitude.
- [Purpose as Service to a Self-led Future](https://thisjungianlife.com/purpose/): When our purpose aligns with the transpersonal Self, it carries us through adversity, guards against groupthink, and frees us from seeking praise.
- [Episode 13 - Active Imagination](https://thisjungianlife.com/ep13/): Jung pioneered the technique of active imagination, a process by which the ego engages with imagery and content generated by the unconscious.
- [Angels, Dreams, and Premonitions: How to Use Inner Messages Without Losing Yourself](https://thisjungianlife.com/angels/): Angelic images carry archetypal force. Like a messenger from the Self, they announce what must be known and their uncanny tidings make the Divine real, again.
- [Santa and Krampus: Why the “Nice List” Needs a Shadow](https://thisjungianlife.com/santa/): Santa Claus fuses the beneficent father, trickster, moral judge, and giver of abundance into a single archetypal image who educates, delights, and rewards.
- [How to Work with Denial: A Jungian Guide to Facing Reality](https://thisjungianlife.com/working-with-denial/): Denial is an instant, nonreflective defense that ignores or disavows painful facts, as if they do not exist (this isn't happening) so feelings stay unprocessed.
- [The Way of Kabbalah: ancient map of the psyche](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-224-kabbalah/): Kabbalah is an ancient Jewish mystical tradition that has captured the imaginations of people from widely diverse backgrounds, including Jung himself.
- [Gratitude and Reverence: How to Lead a Sacred, Soulful Life](https://thisjungianlife.com/gratitude/): Gratitude is a grace that can heal wounds, open possibilities and resurrect self-esteem. It is a spirit that can be passed back and forth endlessly without diminution.
- [Signs Contempt Is Ruining Your Relationship & Ways to Cope](https://thisjungianlife.com/contempt/): Contempt is a ruthless judgment that devalues a person then shuts down empathy, respect, and repair. It traps the contemptuous in an icy inner world.
- [LUCID DREAMING: Have we turned sacred space into a playground?](https://thisjungianlife.com/lucid_dreaming/): Lucid dreaming is an uncanny opportunity to meet your inner parts face to face, engage them with respect, and foster symbol formation and ego–Self integration.
- [THE VITAL SPARK: Reclaim Your Outlaw Energies and Find Your Feminine Fire](https://thisjungianlife.com/the-vital-spark/): Deep in each of us, a Vital Spark fights to free us and set us back on our paths. Three Jungian analysts show us how to align with that liberating drive.
- [SEPARATIO: The Alchemical Secret That Ends Confusion](https://thisjungianlife.com/separatio/): Alchemical separatio is the skill of sorting out your mind. You separate what belongs to you from what is happening in the world around you. It is freeing.
- [The Devil Archetype: A Jungian Analysis for Halloween](https://thisjungianlife.com/the-devil/): The devil archetype is universal and ancient. It has paradoxical qualities that may harm or heal. It evokes our fear of being overcome by the supernatural.
- [CONFRONTING SHADOW: The Work of Self-Discovery](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-182-confronting-shadow-the-work-of-self-discovery/): Psychotherapy is essentially the work of making shadow conscious—all that we have not discerned then disowned, or projected onto others.
- [ARCHETYPES](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-172-archetypes/): Jung understood that Archetypes shape the minds, feelings and actions of people. We inherit these archaic patterns that inform our lives.
- [The Archetype of the Crocodile](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-192-the-archetype-of-the-crocodile/): The crocodile and its alligator cousin appear regularly in dreams. Its primordial forcecan erupt to devour the ego’s claim to autonomy.
- [Horror as a Mirror: What Netflix’s MONSTER Makes Us See](https://thisjungianlife.com/monster-the-ed-gein-story/): Joey Pollari shares a behind the scenes look at the making of MONSTER: The Ed Gein Story. Facing the monstrous collective shadow draws us to ponder Gein's life.
- [SUBLIMATIO: Jung’s Alchemical Method of Turning Problems into Archetypes](https://thisjungianlife.com/sublimatio/): Jung discovered alchemical sublimatio was a method of linking our personal problems to corresponding archetypes which offered new possibilities for change.
- [SOLUTIO: The Alchemy of Letting Go](https://thisjungianlife.com/solutio/): Solutio is the psychological alchemy of dissolving rigid attitudes that hold us back and integrating new traits.
- [CALCINATIO and the Alchemy of Honest Suffering](https://thisjungianlife.com/calcinatio/): Calcinatio is the alchemical burning of projections and shadow desires through skillful containment to facilitate true psychological transformation.
- [Wedding Dreams: Symbols of Sacred Union and Inner Transformation](https://thisjungianlife.com/wedding-dreams/): Wedding Dreams: contain symbols of sacred union and inner transformation. They foreshadow the arrival of disowned traits and fascinating talents waiting for acceptance.
- [SHADOWLAND: Relentless Pain - the story of Jean Campbell](https://thisjungianlife.com/relentless-pain/): Supermodel Jean Campbell reveals the chronic pain she lives with. Pain and suffering are initiations into our depths leading to awareness of the Self.
- [Demure Social Media Trend: Elegant or Oppressive?](https://thisjungianlife.com/demure/): Explore the Demure Cultural Trend, its impact on social media, fashion, and personal identity. Learn how modesty and restraint are reshaping cultural norms.
- [Loyalty to Self and the Death of Illusion](https://thisjungianlife.com/loyalty/): Loyalty to Self and the death of illusion are inevitably linked in the process of individuation. There is a cost to the growth of consciousness that we must accept.
- [The Secret Life of a Woman’s Soul](https://thisjungianlife.com/the-secret-life-of-a-womans-soul/): Christiana Morgan's art, presence, and insight's taught Jung about the secret life of a woman's soul. Hilary Morgan's documentary teaches us what that means.
- [LUXURY BELIEFS: Has Social Class Shaped Your Mind?](https://thisjungianlife.com/luxury-beliefs/): Rob Henderson explains LUXURY BELIEFS: Has social class shaped your mind? These beliefs are problematic unconscious attitudes we internalize when raised with wealth.
- [Is it Love or Abuse of Power? Shadow and Archetype in TELL THEM YOU LOVE ME](https://thisjungianlife.com/tell-them-you-love-me/): Explore the psychological and ethical complexities in Shadow and Archetype in Tell Them You Love Me. Learn about themes of power, projection, love, and consent.
- [ARE YOU TRACKING TWISTERS? The Reckless Charm of Creating Tornados in Our Lives](https://thisjungianlife.com/twisters/): Inner Tornados rearrange our psychic landscape. Explore the symbolic journey of storm-chasing and the reckless charm of creating twisters in our lives.
- [Personal Shadow Work: Where is Your Dark Twin Hiding?](https://thisjungianlife.com/personal-shadow-work/): Identifying shadow takes courage, insight, and determination. Personal Shadow Work: Where is your dark twin hiding? will help you reclaim your disowned parts.
- [Can Art Heal Us? The Role of Imagery in Jungian Analysis](https://thisjungianlife.com/jungian-art-therapy/): Mark Dean, Jungian Analyst & Art Therapist joins us to explore 'Can Art Heals Us? The role of imagery in Jungian Analysis.' We discover the power of art-making.
- [SELF-SABOTAGE: Why We Do It and How To Stop It](https://thisjungianlife.com/self-sabotage/): Learn how to identify and overcome self-sabotaging behaviors. Liberate your potential with "SELF-SABOTAGE: Why we do it and how to stop it." Set your best self, free.
- [John Temple: Does AI Dream Interpretation Really Work?](https://thisjungianlife.com/ai-dream-interpretation/): Does AI Dream Interpretation Really Work? Learn how AI can identify patterns, source myths, and decode symbols blending technology with analytical psychology.
- [Kwame Scruggs: Can Mythology Save Our Kids?](https://thisjungianlife.com/the-power-of-myth-in-urban-youth-development/): Meet Kwame Scruggs and discovery if mythology can save our kids. Explore how storytelling transforms lives. Learn more and inspire change today!
- [Psychodermatology: How Skin Communicates Unconscious Conflicts](https://thisjungianlife.com/skin_communicates_unconscious_conflicts/): Discover how skin reveals hidden psychological conflicts. Learn about psychodermatology and its insights on skin conditions and mental states. Explore now!
- [What Remains When All Is Taken: Standing in the LA Wildfires](https://thisjungianlife.com/lawildfires/): What Remains When All Is Taken: Standing in the LA Fires evokes the Self. Los Angeles Jungian analyst Pamela Power joins us to explore its catastrophic tension.
- [Feet, Fashion, and Freedom: Shoes as Symbols of Identity](https://thisjungianlife.com/shoes-as-symbols/): Shoes are both common and extraordinary. The utility of shoes is obvious--they protect our tender soles. They also signal status, sexuality, and preparation.
- [Analyzing Our Childhood Dreams](https://thisjungianlife.com/childhood-dreams/): Analyzing Our Childhood Dreams offers insight into the foundational archetypes and symbols that shape our traits, goals, desires, and destiny.
- [The Psychology of Meaning: Keys to Authentic Living](https://thisjungianlife.com/the-psychology-of-meaning/): The Psychology of Meaning: keys to authentic living with James Hollis explores purpose, transformation, and reconnecting with your inner self..
- [DREAM WISE: Unlocking the Meaning of Your Dreams ~ Live Book Launch Event!](https://thisjungianlife.com/dream-wise-unlocking-the-meaning-of-your-dreams/): Dream Wise: Unlocking the Meaning of Your Dreams was created from our deep friendship. We offer it to you as part of our mission to bring Jung's ideas to life.
- [Stoicism and Jungian Psychology: A Recipe for Resilience](https://thisjungianlife.com/stoicism/): Stoicism and Jungian psychology are a natural fit. The first invigorates and organizes the reasoning mind, and the second ensouls it.
- [Finding Our Way Back: Healing From Self-Betrayal](https://thisjungianlife.com/self-betrayal/): In self-betrayal, we abandon our values, needs, or truths. Like a strange treachery upon our inner landscape, it leaves us confused and shocked.
- [ECSTATIC TRANSFORMATION: Activating the Archetype of Radical Joy](https://thisjungianlife.com/ecstatic-transformation/): Ecstatic transformation terrifies and exalts; it shatters the ego's tower of isolation, casting us into frightening uncertainty filled with creative potential.
- [DECISION ARCHETYPE: the Power of Sacrificing Options](https://thisjungianlife.com/decision-archetype/): The decision archetype shapes our need for information and clarity, guiding us to sacrifice lesser options and pursue the Self's goals.
- [SATANIC PANIC: the Archetypal Slanderer and False Memory Syndrome](https://thisjungianlife.com/satanic-panic/): The Satanic Panic ruined lives, showing therapists the power of implanted memories. When cultural change fuels fear and activates archetypes, watch out.
- [Jung and Gnosticism: Discover a Universe of Whole-Making](https://thisjungianlife.com/gnosticism/): Gnosticism confirmed for Jung that his concept of the unconscious reflected its archetypal nature and expanded his understanding through its ancient cosmology.
- [DOG SYMBOLISM IN DREAMS: Companions, Protectors and Guides of Souls](https://thisjungianlife.com/dog-symbolism-in-dreams/): Dog symbolism in dreams offers a wealth of support from the unconscious in times of stress and uncertainty. Inner dogs guide and protect us in our journey to wholeness
- [Jungian Alchemy: The Secret of Inner Transformation](https://thisjungianlife.com/jungian-alchemy-the-secret-of-inner-transformation/): CG Jung recognized the patterns of alchemical images in his patient's dreams. Jungian Alchemy offers a way to understand the mysterious process of inner change.
- [DRAGON: The Archetypal Monster and Ally Within](https://thisjungianlife.com/dragon-the-archetypal-monster-and-ally-within/): Dragons are everywhere! These archetypal images evoke fear and power. They can rally us to new heights or plunge us into fear and regressive dependency.
- [STUCK IN THE COMFORT ZONE: When Wrong Feels Right, and Right Feels Wrong](https://thisjungianlife.com/stuck_in_the_comfort_zone/): When stuck in the comfort zone things that harm us can feel right. Through self-exploration we change and discover that better things feel right and harmful repels.
- [Parental Complexes: How They Shape Your Child’s Future](https://thisjungianlife.com/parental-complexes/): Our parent's complexes influence their behavior toward us, causing unintended consequences. It's as if we were raised by their unresolved emotional issues.
- [Changing the Foundation of Personality: the Secret Power of Attitudes](https://thisjungianlife.com/attitudes/): Changing the Foundation of Personality: the Secret Power of Attitudes – Attitudes shape our core expectations; their transformation is central to individuation.
- [What Does Your Childhood Dream Mean?](https://thisjungianlife.com/what-does-your-childhood-dream-mean/): Listeners frequently submit dreams they remember from childhood for interpretation. These dreams present a unique challenge for analysts as they tend to lack the conscious context and associations of adult dreams. Yet Jung considered childhood dreams to be extraordinarily important, as they are filled with archetypal imagery rising from the collective unconscious. Many of us
- [DREAM TELEPATHY: Is it real?](https://thisjungianlife.com/dream-telepathy/): Jung discovered evidence of dream telepathy, so we decided to conduct our own experiment. The results are in with some remarkable examples of uncanny connections.
- [Mandala Archetype: How the Self Turns Chaos Into Cosmos](https://thisjungianlife.com/mandala-archetype/): The Mandala Archetype activates to help us when we are in crisis. Its simple structure acts to contain and restructure our psyche. It realigns us with the Self.
- [Ready For the Real Snow White? The True Tale of Envy, Murder, and Retribution](https://thisjungianlife.com/snow-white/): Snow White is not the pretty cartoon Disney created; it's an archetypal tale that helps us understand the dangers of envy and the cost of clinging to naivety.
- [Forging the Upward Thread: Why Do We Create Religions?](https://thisjungianlife.com/religious_function/): Jung championed the human need to connect with the transcendent. Across time and cultures, we create religions to serve that end.
- [Trauma Can Be Rewritten: The Use of Art to Reimagine Our Past and Grant Us New Life](https://thisjungianlife.com/see_memory/): Viviane Silvera used 30,000 hand-painted images to explore memory, PTSD, and breakthroughs in neuroscience. We explore the power of art to transform trauma.
- [How to Develop Your Inner Guidance: Charting a Path Through the Current Chaos with Jung’s Insights](https://thisjungianlife.com/inner-guidance/): In uncertain times cultivating inner guidance is essential. Jung offered important insights that can help us improve our intuition and enhance our receptivity.
- [From Worry to Insight: Making Sense of Uncertainty](https://thisjungianlife.com/from-worry-to-insight/): Worry can become a teacher: when we name it with gentle curiosity, we discover hidden resilience and reveal fresh possibilities for growth.
- [Detective Archetype Decoded: Tracking Symbolic Clues](https://thisjungianlife.com/detective-archetype-decoded/): The detective archetype helps decode inner mysteries, restore order, and integrate shadow—both in crime stories and the human soul.
- [Analytical Patisserie: When Pastry Sparked Genius](https://thisjungianlife.com/analytical-patisserie-when-pastry-sparked-genius/): In 1906, Jung met Freud in Vienna. During their conversation, Jung fell in love with a confection they shared. This drove Jung to master the art of pastry.
- [Unlocking the Power of Your Shadow](https://thisjungianlife.com/unlocking-the-power-of-your-shadow/): Unlocking the power of your shadow will help you carry authority, engage hard tasks, overcome avoidance, and revitalize your relationships.
- [The Boundary Paradox: How Limits Create Freedom](https://thisjungianlife.com/the-boundary-paradox-how-limits-create-freedom/): Boundaries protect identity, balance autonomy and connection, and shape relationships, work, and psyche. Healthy limits foster well-being and growth.
- [VISIONS: When the Mystery Breaks Through](https://thisjungianlife.com/visions/): Jung experienced chilling visions that predicted massive cultural conflicts. They are intense interventions from the unconscious that any of us might receive.
- [SHADOWLAND: Self-Harm Cults – The Story of Sarah](https://thisjungianlife.com/self-harm-cults/): Sarah, a mother who rescued her teen daughter from the Self-Harm Group called 764, tells her story to warn other parents.
- [DREAMOGRAPHY PROJECT: The Symbolism of Travel Inner and Outer](https://thisjungianlife.com/travel_dreams/): Travel dreams reveal the psychospiritual tasks we must engage to become our true selves. Whether we launch with clear vision or Fate tosses us, change is afoot.
- [The Archetypal Brain: Jung from an Evolutionary Perspective](https://thisjungianlife.com/the-archetypal-brain/): The Archetypal Brain delves into the connections between evolutionary biology, psychology, and the role of rituals in human development with Gary Clark.
- [Facing Rejection](https://thisjungianlife.com/facing-rejection/): Facing Rejection requires the determination to grow and learn. Without that, those same wounds can tempt us into becoming vengeful villains.
- [The Handless Maiden: A Tale to Heal the Wounded Feminine](https://thisjungianlife.com/handless-maiden/): True healing and wholeness come from courageously facing our deepest wounds, reclaiming our lost agency, and trusting the wisdom within.
- [Taming Your Inner Critic: Turn Self-Attack into Self-Awareness](https://thisjungianlife.com/inner-critic/): A relentless inner critic can blight our life, leaving us anxious and unsure all the time. Understanding and facing this inner figure can restore our confidence.
- [SHARK: Elemental Symbol of our Will to Survive and Ravenous Hunger For Experience](https://thisjungianlife.com/shark/): Sharks symbolize the primal will to survive. When it cuts through the water of our dreams, it banishes anxieties, replacing them with a cleansing immediacy.
- [MOTIVATION: What Happens When Your Get-Up-And-Go Leaves Without You?](https://thisjungianlife.com/motivation/): Motivation rises from conscious and unconscious dynamics. When these two align, we find ourselves acting decisively and effectively with remarkable freedom.
- [Sibling Rivalry: Archetypal Conflicts and Shadow Dynamics in Families ](https://thisjungianlife.com/sibling-rivalry/): Sibling rivalry is an archetypal force driving differentiation; envy reveals latent talents, roles may harden, yet healing comes by integrating the inner rival.
- [DISCOVERING A NEW ARCHETYPE: the Buddhabrot Fractal Bridging Math, Myth, and the Collective Unconscious](https://thisjungianlife.com/buddhabrot/): The Buddhabrot is an uncanny image generated by repeating a mathematical formula. The spectral outline is very similar to numerous sacred images and objects.
- [Wounds into Wisdom: Jung’s Private Life](https://thisjungianlife.com/jungs_private_life/): How Jung’s private struggles, inner visions, and complex relationships gave rise to his lasting ideas—like the shadow, anima, archetypes, and individuation.
- [Jack and the Beanstalk: When Magic Calls Us Into Life](https://thisjungianlife.com/jack-and-the-beanstalk/): Jack and the Beanstalk teaches us to climb out of darkness, confront the giants within, claim the gifts of our unconscious, and transform our ordinary lives.
- [IMAGINATION: Jung’s Path to Creativity and Inner Freedom](https://thisjungianlife.com/imagination/): Jung discovered imagination is the gate to soul, Psyche, and the unconscious. Engaging it links our waking personality to the generative power of the unconscious.
- [The Creative Power of Inner Tension](https://thisjungianlife.com/opposites/): Holding the tension of opposites activates the transcendent function—turning inner conflict into living symbols, renewed energy, clarity, and action.
- [Jung’s Inner Guides: The Secret of The Red Book](https://thisjungianlife.com/red-book/): Jung's Red Book reveals the essential role his inner guides played in the development of his innovative psychological ideas and methods.
- [BULLYING: When Aggression Runs Wild](https://thisjungianlife.com/bullying-when-aggression-runs-wild/): Bullying is about unmanaged aggression and broken containment in early life. Clear rules and targeted empathy can tame primal aggression.
- [MYTHS: Maps of the Collective Unconscious](https://thisjungianlife.com/myth/): A myth is a symbolic story that expresses collective unconscious patterns, showing how psyche and nature interweave beyond personal history.
- [Projection and Play: What Dolls Do to Psyche](https://thisjungianlife.com/dolls/): Dolls are human stand-ins that invite projection and play; children and adults use them to try on identities, develop imagination, and discover who they can be.
- [People Pleasing Is Making You Sick!](https://thisjungianlife.com/people-pleasing/): People Pleasing is a fear-driven behavior. It appears as a search for approval, avoiding conflict while eroding your boundaries and access to the Self.
- [If Looks Could Kill: Surviving the Death Mother](https://thisjungianlife.com/death-mother/): The Death Mother Archetype reflects Nature’s indifference to an individual’s survival. When active it threatens the psychospiritual and physical life of a child
- [Negative Mother Complex: When Our Painful Childhood Owns Us](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-75-negative-mother-complex-when-our-painful-childhood-owns-us/): The mother complex is universal. By responding to the turmoil associated with it, one can embrace the task of finding the mother within.
- [The Cosmic Meaning of Consciousness](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-173-the-cosmic-meaning-of-consciousness/): Jung states, “Whoever knows God has an effect on him.” Individuation allows our personal experiences to enrich the collective unconscious.
- [Do Dreams Have Meaning?](https://thisjungianlife.com/do-dreams-have-meaning/): For thousands of years people have found dreams significant. They inscribed cuneiform tablets with dreams, interpreted dreams for pharaohs, and sought healing knowledge in dream incubation sanatoriums. Dreams were a source of mysterious wisdom from without until the late 19th century, when psychology understood that dreams arose from within, obeying laws of inner realities. Carl
- [Symbols](https://thisjungianlife.com/symbols/): Begin with a symbolic lens Symbolic thinking has many gradations, beginning with the specific meanings of signs: the familiar man/woman icons for public restrooms to animal crossing signs on roadways to skull and crossbones poison warnings. We can move a notch up to figures of speech: he froze, she’s an angel, and they’re all wet.
- [What Does Your Dog Dream Mean?](https://thisjungianlife.com/what-does-your-dog-dream-mean/): Dogs pad into our dreams with astonishing regularity. We dream of reunions with beloved childhood pets; but we also experience visitations from salivating, barking hounds of terror, or nightmares in which our puppy cries because we haven’t fed her, or have unaccountably left her locked in a cupboard. The Symbol of the Dog Any animal
- [What Does Your Wedding Dream Mean?](https://thisjungianlife.com/what-does-your-wedding-dream-mean/): Dreams about weddings may be among the most memorable of our lives. We slip a packet of tissues into our pockets before a wedding with good reason. Weddings are infused with an archetypal power supercharged by thousands of years of stirring ritual. The power of the wedding archetype looms large in the culture: weddings feed
- [Individuation: The Central Concept of Jung's Psychology](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-61-individuation/): Individuation is the foundational image and aspiration of Jungian psychoanalysis. Joseph, Lisa & Deb discuss the concept of individuation & images of the Self.
- [HEALING the RIFT: Anima Mundi in a Disenchanted World](https://thisjungianlife.com/anima-mundi/): The Anima Mundi reenchanted Jung’s world. It was central to his psychology, calling us back to an unbroken inner world we still share with all life.
- [Animus & Anima: Inner companions that can make us whole](https://thisjungianlife.com/76-animus-anima/): Anima and Animus are anthropomorphic symbols of your potential held in reserve by the Self. We project those traits onto others, thus finding them fascinating.
- [Grief and Bereavement](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-79-grief-and-bereavement/): The death of a loved one is a loss that is part of the human condition and is universal. Mortality confronts us to accept our ever-changing reality.
- [VOLCANO: archetype of creation and destruction](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-234-volcano/): The volcano serves as a potent image of the unconscious – unpredictable, sometimes explosive but capable of bestowing its fructifying blessing upon us.
- [IDENTITY CRISIS: When Our Story Falls Apart](https://thisjungianlife.com/identity-crisis/): Understand the 'IDENTITY CRISIS: When Our Story Falls Apart' and explore the effects of Narrative Identity Crisis. Find supportive strategies to rebuild your story.
- [Six Swans Jungian Analysis: Transforming Fear into Joy](https://thisjungianlife.com/six-swans-jungian-analysis/): Bring to light the symbolic journey in 'Six Swans Jungian Analysis: Transforming Fear into Joy.' Discover essential insights on fear, joy, and resilience.
- [Two Red Books: The Shared Imaginal Realms of Jung and Tolkien](https://thisjungianlife.com/shared-imaginal-realms-of-jung-and-tolkien/): Step into the shared imaginal realms of Jung and Tolkien and discover their Red Books as we interview Becca Tarnas author of Journey to the Imaginal Realm.
- [Encounters with Light: Jung's near-death experiences](https://thisjungianlife.com/near_death_experiences/): Discover the profound impacts of near-death experiences in 'Encounters with Light.' Dive into Jungian insights that redefine consciousness. Learn more here!
- [MARTYR COMPLEX: Selfish or Selfless?](https://thisjungianlife.com/martyr-complex/): MARTYR COMPLEX: Selfish or Selfless? Why do people sacrifice themselves for beliefs, altruism, protest, recognition, mental distress, or political despair?
- [ECLIPSE: archetype of awe, wonder, and triumph](https://thisjungianlife.com/eclipse/): Encountering a total eclipse can evoke a primal connection to nature and the infinite, constellating a deep sense of belonging to the universe and each other.
- [Kate Berlant: Art, Psych, and the Collective Unconscious in new movie DREAM SCENARIO](https://thisjungianlife.com/kate_berlant/): Actress comedian Kate Berlant explores new movie DREAM SCENARIO with 3 Jungian analysts who discuss dreams, the collective unconscious and the perils of fame.
- [Everyday Animism: Did Jung speak to his pots and pans?](https://thisjungianlife.com/animism/): Did Jung speak to his pots and pans? Three Jungian analysts explore everyday animism and uncover new information about Jung’s secret life at Bollingen.
- [VULGARITY: What's Its True Power?](https://thisjungianlife.com/vulgarity/): Explore the depths of humor and taboo in 'VULGARITY: What's Its True Power?' Three Jungian’s explain our attraction to the profane.
- [Ronnie Landau: Unpacking Allegations, Was Jung Antisemitic?](https://thisjungianlife.com/antisemitism/): Ronnie Landau joins us to explore the multifaceted relationship between Carl Jung, Jewish thought and the debate over allegations of antisemitism.
- [The Psychology of Strife: What Lies Beneath Our Conflicts?](https://thisjungianlife.com/strife/): Understand how inner conflict can manifest in external relationships. Learn strategies for self-awareness to navigate and improve interpersonal dynamics.
- [THREE LITTLE PIGS SYNDROME: Is it better to flee or be the big bad Wolf?](https://thisjungianlife.com/three-little-pigs/): Three Little Pigs fairytale shows us building resilience, facing the Wolf of instincts, and evolving from simplicity to sophistication brings personal growth.
- [ROBERT HOPCKE: Did Jung understand gay identity?](https://thisjungianlife.com/robert-hopcke/): Robert Hopcke joins us to bridge Jungian psychology with gay identity, offering insights into the queer psyche and the journey towards self-understanding.
- [UNREQUITED LOVE: Can Eros be revived?](https://thisjungianlife.com/unrequited_love/): Unrequited love evokes deep feelings from hatred to sorrow. A Jungian lens on the myth of Anteros reveals the archetypal structures rejection evokes.
- [THE LAST AWAKENING: Death Anxiety and Its Role in Psychological Transformation](https://thisjungianlife.com/fear_of_death/): Exploring fear of death through Jungian theory, spiritual practices, and personal experiences, highlighting paths to understanding and acceptance.
- [SPEAKING TRUTH: Is it venom or a cure?](https://thisjungianlife.com/speaking_truth/): How do we navigate the complex interplay between personal truths, societal norms, and psychological well-being to foster individual growth and social progress?
- [Promethean Inflation: Will Our Creations Destroy Us?](https://thisjungianlife.com/prometheus/): Will our creations ultimately destroy us? Prometheus stole fire from the gods to help humanity and he paid a terrible price. Are we in a similar crisis?
- [Kelly Bulkeley: Is Dreaming the Source of Spirituality?](https://thisjungianlife.com/kelly-bulkeley/): Kelly Bulkeley tells us how dreams influence and reflect our beliefs and experiences. We explore whether dreams are the true source of all spirituality.
- [DIVORCE: How can heartbreak lead to transformation?](https://thisjungianlife.com/divorce/): Divorce can be a path of transformational growth. Like Jungian individuation, it follows cycles of suffering, dissolution, and the birth of a new identity.
- [Three Jungians on Psychedelics: Is Tripping a Valid Path of Self-Discovery?](https://thisjungianlife.com/psychedelics/): Jungian psychology with its deep understanding of symbolism, can help interpret psychedelic experiences and prepare us to meet the collective unconscious.
- [Fanny Brewster: How can dreams bridge us to ancestors?](https://thisjungianlife.com/ancestral_dreams/): With Fanny Brewster we explore Jung's struggle to explain the cultural complex hobbled by his own biases and discuss how ancestral dreams transcend that flaw
- [SOLSTICE: Why is the longest night so magickal?](https://thisjungianlife.com/solstice/): Tracking the light is an instinct woven into our bodies. As daylight fades, we naturally draw within to release what no longer serves and gather strength.
- [Yascha Mounk: Why Society Crumbles When We Obsess Over Identity](https://thisjungianlife.com/yascha_mounk/): Yascha Mounk, political scientist, professor, andauthor of The Identity Trap, explains why we seek an appealing identity and abandon Universal cultural values.
- [SURVIVING MASS TRAUMA: How did Jung process catastrophic events?](https://thisjungianlife.com/catastrophe/): The great catastrophe of Jung's generation was the rise of Nazi Germany and WWII. His insights remain relevant as we grapple with war and violence worldwide.
- [NIGHTMARES: How can I stop awful dreams?](https://thisjungianlife.com/nightmares/): A Jungian analysis of nightmares reveals monsters we flee are symbols of what we are afraid to learn about ourselves. They transform when see then as teachers.
- [DUMBO'S FEATHER: Are there hidden messages in Disney cartoons?](https://thisjungianlife.com/dumbo-2/): Symbols, like Dumbo's feather, give us access to courage before we have evidence of our abilities.
- [Aaron Balick – Why does social media weaponize our reactions?](https://thisjungianlife.com/aaron_balick/): The digital era has potentiated thoughtless reactions. Platforms like Twitter have weaponized emotions, intensifying polarization and complicating mutual understanding.
- [FAME: Why Do We Create Icons Only to Destroy Them?](https://thisjungianlife.com/fame/): Today’s technology allows us to be seduced by the possibility of fame and celebrity tempting the ego to claim what does not belong to it.
- [REUNIONS: Is there value in remembering our younger selves?](https://thisjungianlife.com/reunion/): Reunions blend past connections with present realities, evoking complex emotions. While we fear old hurts will be triggered we might discover healing insights.
- [Donald Kalsched – Can running our minds like a democracy save us?](https://thisjungianlife.com/donald-kalsched-saving-democracy/): Donald Kalsched, author of Trauma and the Soul, tells us why establishing an inner democracy of the soul makes us resilient to authoritarianism.
- [THE BARBIE MOVIE: Can it Dismantle an American Myth?](https://thisjungianlife.com/the_barbie-movie/): Jungian archetypes can help us understand the deeper meaning of The Barbie movie. Since '59 Barbie has carried the archetype of Aphrodite; can that change?
- [Selkie Folklore: Should we force soul to serve us?](https://thisjungianlife.com/selkie/): In Celtic lore Selkies shed their seal-skin to dance on the shore. Lured by unearthly beauty, humans capture and bind them - withering their own wild soul
- [THE MUSIC OF METAPHOR: Healing in Therapy & Life](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-178-the-music-of-metaphor-healing-in-therapy-life/): Metaphor speaks beyond ego and traverses the realms between past and present, bodily sensation and feeling, conscious and unconscious.
- [LETTING GO: When Is It Time?](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-170-letting-go-when-is-it-time/): Should we hang in and hang on - or let go? When does perseverance become pointless, or hope turn rancid in therefusal to accept disappointment?
- [ARCHETYPE OF THE FOOL: dancing through experiences](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-158-the-archetype-of-the-fool/): The fool punctures the posturings of others’ personas and egos, bests his “betters,” and transgresses social boundaries and conventional morality.
- [CHRONIC ANGER: trapped in resentment](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-153-chronic-anger-trapped-in-resentment/): Like fire in a wood stove, resentment burns long and hot: bitterness, frustration, and hostility. Chronic anger troubles us when we feel needy and vulnerable.
- [TRUTH TELLING: revelations & realities](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-151-truth-telling-revelations-realities/): Centered in self, we can regard a decision, person, or situation at hand with internal integrity that is congruent with external reality: truth.
- [SELF-LOATHING: what’s gnawing on your bones?](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-149-self-loathing/): The judgmental inner voice has volume, speed, pitch and range. It may appear as a perfectionistic critic, demanding taskmaster, or abusive bully. It also seeps in through the collective, with criteria for beauty, status, and wealth that are unrealistic and artificial. At its worst, this punitive, shaming complex incites self-destructive behavior, and has long been imaged by witches, warlocks, ogres and fiends.
- [FIERCE FEMALE INITIATIONS: claiming authority & selfhood through trials](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-144-fierce-female-initiations-claiming-authority-selfhood-through-trials/): Women’s initiation into adulthood and authority involves encountering shadow, finding inner fire, taking action, and wielding power.
- [SCROOGE on the COUCH: how the numinous transforms](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-143-scrooge-on-the-couch-how-the-numinous-transforms/): Dickens’ A Christmas Carol portrays the journey to healing and transcendence. It was written in a fever, released on Dec 19 1843, and sold out before Christmas.
- [CURIOSITY: the inner engine of change](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-131-curiosity-the-inner-engine-of-change/): We celebrate curiosity’s role in discovery, and regret its potential for damage. Mature curiosity demands we embrace confusion and doubt.
- [ARCHETYPE OF THE DIVINE CHILD: light reborn](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-142-the-archetype-of-the-divine-child-light-reborn/): The divine child appears when least expected, new potential born from the womb of the unconscious. Helpless and blessed and against all reason, the divine child represents the creative union of opposites that births a new beginning.
- [DOUBT: suspended between two minds](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-140-doubt-facing-lifes-unknowns/): Doubt disturbs us. Unlike ambivalence, doubt is pervasive, muddy, and ranges from crippling to constructive. At a deeper level doubt can erode our sense of self
- [ADAPTATION: meeting life's demands creatively](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-133-adaptation-meeting-lifes-demands/): The challenge of adaptation differs at different life stages. Through creative adaptation, we come to terms with the realities of our outer and inner worlds.
- [Why Do We Push People Away? Understanding our Defenses](https://thisjungianlife.com/defenses/): We all know defensive people, but when it's us, it can be confusing. We need some defensive strategies to cope, but when they take over, they leave us isolated.
- [AWAKE TO THE WORLD: Jung’s Ethical Stance](https://thisjungianlife.com/ethics/): Navigate moral dilemmas with self-discovery and humility. Integrating shadow work and decision-making can ground our choices in empathy, insight and compassion.
- [SELF-REFLECTION: What Was I Thinking?](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-181-self-reflection-what-was-i-thinking/): Self-reflection is correlated with consciousness and is arguably humankind’s unique and essential competency.
- [The Fiery Furnace of Ambition](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-187-the-fiery-furnace-of-ambition/): Ambition is a fire whose flames rise in the first half of life when hopes and dreams are fueled by possibilities in the external world.
- [MR. GRINCH ON THE COUCH](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-194-mr-grinch-on-the-couch/): Dr. Seuss’ case history depicts the Grinch as “uncheerful, unhealthy, unclean.” We hope an analytic perspective will help understand this clinical condition.
- [PORN: Technology, Consumerism & Soul](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-197-porn-technology-consumerism-soul/): The psychology of porn is fueled by a longing to reconnect with the archetype of the lost goddess.
- [FAILURE as TEACHER](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-205-failure-as-teacher/): Failure is a call to self-confrontation, humility, and resilience. We can recognize the limits of our conscious attitude and our dependence on the unconscious.
- [DAIMON: Demon or Destiny?](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-221-daimon/): The Daimon was an ancient Greek guiding spirit. For Jung, “daimon” was a synonym for that part of the unconscious concerned with life purpose.
- [Matthew Quick on Jung, heartbreak, and healing in his new novel We Are the Light.](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-238-matthew-quick-we-are-the-light/): Our deep conversation sheds light on the relationship between author and character, creativity and healing, Jungian analysis and soul.
- [From SHAMANISM to JUNG: Understanding’ Loss of Soul’](https://thisjungianlife.com/loss_of_soul/): As Jung’s anthropological studies expanded and his international travel exposed him to new cultures and ideas, he was taken by the concept of ‘loss of soul.’
- [BEAUTY, her BEAST, and the BLOSSOMING SELF](https://thisjungianlife.com/beauty-and-the-beast/): Jungian analysis of ‘Beauty and the Beast’ reveals a tale of feminine integration through claiming autonomy and redeeming instinct—a hard-won wholeness.
- [CONTAGION: Pollution, Protection & Purity](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-199-contagion-pollution-protection-purity/): When the archetype of purity is activated, science and psychology intersect. Fear of contamination has deep instinctual roots.
- [REALITY AS MEDICINE](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-200-reality-as-medicine/): From a psychological viewpoint, reality is largely a question of adaptation to the truths of our inner and outer worlds.
- [DUPED: What Makes Us Gullible?](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-201-duped-what-makes-us-gullible/): Denied fears and desires create blind spots others can manipulate. Exploring our shadow can protect us from being duped.
- [TRUST: The Bedrock of Relationship](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-203-trust-the-bedrock-of-relationship/): Trust does not make us naïve--it enables us to make commitments, attend to the world--and ourselves.
- [POISON: Toxic or Transformative?](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-215-poison/): Pharmakon, the ancient Greek word for drug, can mean both “remedy” and “poison.” There is a close connection between poison and cure.
- [THE INFERIOR FUNCTION: Opening to the Interior](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-233-inferior-function/): Our inferior function lies closest to the unconscious. It tends to manifest through tasks, people, and situations that throw us off balance.
- [OCD: The Distress of Repression](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-235-ocd/): Obsessions are unwanted thoughts; compulsions are unwarranted behaviors. They often go together as protections from unwanted feelings.
- [HAGITUDE: Sharon Blackie on the power of aging](https://thisjungianlife.com/hagitude/): Sharon Blackie revives the power of the Hag as the archetypal guide to fierce aging. Menopause can be the threshold to breaking free and tending truth.
- [Three Voices, One Song: lessons in friendship](https://thisjungianlife.com/friendship/): The essence of friendship, rooted in shared experience, brings joy and challenge. This robust dance evolves through life, maturing us through lessons in intimacy.
- [You're Not a Fraud: Overcoming Imposter Syndrome](https://thisjungianlife.com/imposter_syndrome/): Imposter syndrome constellates the gut-wrenching fear of being exposed as a fraud no matter how much we have learned or the successes we have demonstrated.
- [FRIEND or FOE: The AI Debate with Michael L. Littman, PhD](https://thisjungianlife.com/friend-or-foe-the-ai-debate-with-michael-l-littman-phd/): The uses and abuses of ChatGBT took our collective imagination by storm. Professor Littman reassures three Jungian analysts the singularity is not on the horizon.
- [Meeting Shadow on the Spiritual Path with Connie Zweig](https://thisjungianlife.com/connie_zweig_shadowwork/): The bright light of spirituality cast an equally dark shadow. Connie Zweig shares her insights on the process of reclaiming our spiritual authority.
- [Reviving Tolerance in Cancel Culture](https://thisjungianlife.com/tolerance/): Explore the evolution of tolerance, its interplay with equanimity, the counter to cancel culture, and the value of safe spaces for open dialogue.
- [EMBRACING THE OUTCAST: Understanding Homelessness](https://thisjungianlife.com/homelessness/): Homelessness is more than physical displacement. It constellates from numerous inner and outer factors driven by the 'Outcast' archetype.
- [PASSING THE TEST: embracing the refiner's fire](https://thisjungianlife.com/tests/): Tests are a fundamental part of the human experience, marking our rites of passage and shaping our journey toward personal growth and transformation.
- [The ORPHAN: symbol of eros, pathos, and hope](https://thisjungianlife.com/issues-of-abandonment/): The orphan archetype evokes powerful issues of abandonment and hope. From Harry Potter to Cinderella, they remind us that healing the inner child is possible.
- [The PIED PIPER & the terrible costs of rejecting shadow](https://thisjungianlife.com/pied-piper/): The Pied Piper story holds a dark secret that has repelled and fascinated us for over 500 years. It asks, "What does it cost to banish our shadow?"
- [CAN JUNG’S HOME WITHSTAND REPURPOSING?](https://thisjungianlife.com/repurposing_jungs_home/): Jungians are shocked at plans by the Swiss Tourism Oversight Authority & real estate developers to transform Jung's home and Bollingen Tower into a theme park.
- [PAN: the archetypal source of panic disorder](https://thisjungianlife.com/pan-archetype/): The Pan archetype evokes the god of nature, instinct and sexuality. Demonizing these universal forces is dangerous leading to panic attacks and societal rage.
- [THE WHALE: a film about trauma, obesity, and the undying hope to connect.](https://thisjungianlife.com/the-whale-movie-analysis/): Explore the allegory of Charlie’s struggle with obesity through a Jungian & psychoanalytic lens. The Whale is about isolation and trauma, but also undying hope.
- [SYMBOLIC MEANING of HAIR: what's your look saying?](https://thisjungianlife.com/hair-symbolism/): Explore the symbolic meaning of hair. For thousands of years, we've silently announced our feelings about ourselves and others through styling our hair.
- [THE DARK TRIAD: tracking wolves in our midst](https://thisjungianlife.com/dark_triad/): Narcissism, machiavellianism, and psychopathy blend in The Dark Triad character. They exploit, mislead and manipulate with callous indifference. What can we do?
- [ARCHETYPAL IMAGES: the soul's language](https://thisjungianlife.com/archetypal_images/): Archetypal Images are powerful because they spring from universal patterns. We explore their significance in culture, commerce, and modern societal influence.
- [WHISKERS of WISDOM: A Jungian Analysis of Puss in Boots](https://thisjungianlife.com/puss-in-boots/): A Jungian Analysis of Puss in Boots reveals an archetypal theme that helps us all. We learn that giving voice to our instincts can guide us when all else fails.
- [SHADOWS & HIGH STAKES: Understanding Gambling](https://thisjungianlife.com/understanding_gambling/): Understanding gambling: explore its psychology, mythology, and history. Uncover the allure, risks, and rewards of this captivating world.
- [UGLY DUCKLING COMPLEX: the painful path of transformation](https://thisjungianlife.com/ugly-duckling-complex/): We understand the Ugly Duckling complex because we know what it's like to be born in the wrong nest. Can we transform alienation into individuation?
- [FACING FEELINGS: avoidance or encounter?](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-150-facing-your-feelings-avoidance-or-encounter/): Jung wrote, "Our emotions happen to us; affect occurs at the point at which our adaptation is weakest and at the same time exposes the reason for its weakness.” So what is calling for encounter instead of avoidance, displacement or somatization? Feelings are information—they do not necessarily mandate action, nor do they originate externally. Notice them, name them--and look to your dreams, for the unconscious compensates nightly for what consciousness avoids. Embrace your emotions.
- [Jung & Astrology: Cosmos & Character](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-109-jung-astrology-cosmos-character/): Astrology is an archetypal frame for human experience that influenced Jung. It depicts our connection to the heavens, and anticipates future trends.
- [Creativity: Drawing from the Inner Well](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-120-creativity-drawing-from-the-inner-well/): The root of create, “to bring something into being out of nothing,” echoes divine creation. Ideas arise from mysterious sources, yet creativity is such an intrinsically human function that Jung considered it one of five human instincts, together with hunger, sexuality, activity, and reflection (a function of consciousness).
- [Pets: A Lived Relationship with Soul](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-124-pets-a-lived-relationship-with-soul/): Pets let us be tender, elicit nurturing, and help heal trauma through secure attachment. Our creatures keep our secrets.
- [The Provisional Life: Redeeming the Real](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-125-the-provisional-life-redeeming-the-real/): The provisional life might be defined as a vague malaise: current relationships, work, and lifestyle feel like placeholders until the ‘real thing’ arrives—someday.
- [ZOOMing In: Is Psyche Alive Online?](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-110-zooming-in-is-psyche-alive-online/): We have moved our lives online. But can we experience authentic human connection through a screen? Can we love, heal, or learn via digital technologies like teletherapy?
- [The Money Complex: Incarnating Our Dreams](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-126-the-money-complex-incarnating-our-dreams/): Like Hermes, money traverses the realms from Hades to Heaven.
- [DOES ANALYSIS WORK? A Conversation with Jonathan Shedler, PhD](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-184-does-analysis-work-a-conversation-with-jonathan-shedler-phd/): Is talk really powerful medicine? Lisa, Joe & Deb discuss the effectiveness of psychotherapy with renowned researcher and clinician Jonathan Shedler, Ph.D.
- [Being a Mother: Lisa Marchiano on 'The Meaningful Life' podcast with Andrew G. Marshall](https://thisjungianlife.com/being-a-mother-a-journey-of-self-discovery-with-lisa-marchiano-on-the-meaningful-life-podcast-with-andrew-g-marshall/): Lisa Marchiano and Andrew Marshall explore how easy it is to be “devoured” by the experience of mothering, and what it means to feel rage as a mother.
- [The Religious Attitude: What Do You Worship?](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-119-the-religious-attitude-what-do-you-worship/): The religious instinct is as basic as the need for food or shelter. Psyche seeks and selects a central, organizing life principle whether consciously or unconsciously chosen. Secular deities range from food, money, or even science, to the gods of addiction; false gods lie behind neuroses and pathology. Traditional religions and cosmologies offer connection
- [Seeking Certainty: The Seduction of Conspiracy Theories](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-127-seeking-certainty-the-seduction-of-conspiracy-theories/): Understanding conspiracy theories as symbolic expressions of unconscious contents can allow us to take them seriously without taking them literally.
- [At Home in Our Bodies: Incarnation & Individuation](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-129-at-home-in-our-bodies-incarnation-individuation/): Embodiment is the ground of being, and engaging the tension between instinct and archetype shapes consciousness and character.
- [Intuition: Non-Rational Knowing](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-128-intuition-non-rational-knowing/): We all have intuitive experiences, from an occasional hunch to powerful gut feelings. Unconscious intelligence is a storehouse of human instincts and wisdoms.
- [SHADOWLAND: a new podcast experience – September 9 on TJL](https://thisjungianlife.com/shadowlands-a-new-podcast-experience-september-9-on-tjl/): On September 9th, This Jungian Life will launch a new podcast experience - SHADOWLAND. We'll meet people who live and work in the hidden places of our culture.
- [SHADOWLAND: Prostitution– the story of Kay](https://thisjungianlife.com/shadowland-prostitution-the-story-of-kay/): This is Shadowland a new podcast experience from This Jungian Life that explores the lives of people who work and take refuge in the hidden places of our culture. Lisa, Deb, and Joseph collaborate with songwriter Wells Hanley, creator of I Wrote This Song For You podcast, to bring insight, compassion, and understanding to the darker side of human experience. Nietzsche wrote, “I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses.” In that spirit, we meet Kay, a 21-year-old single mother who works throughout the American southwest as a self-described prostitute. We explore how she found her way to that life, what she aspires to, and how she holds the complicated tensions between herself, her clients, and the current culture.
- [THERAPISTS on the SILVER SCREEN: fantasy or fact?](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-244-film-therapists/): Therapists in films both reveal and obscure what psychotherapy really is. We like spying on the process, but does it really help us understand?
- [Holiday Hauntings or Who are these people?!?!](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-245-holiday-hauntings/): Challenging dynamics constellate when families gather for the holidays, requiring accurate recognition and skillful intervention.
- [SEX and its undeniable power to fascinate.](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-246-sex/): Whether we turn toward it, flushed and excited, or away from it, tense and disquieted--sex fascinates us because it's numinous.
- [Best of This Jungian Life 2022](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-247-best-of-2022/): Your experiences are important to us, and we noticed the 2022 episodes you liked best. So, we’re sharing some gems from those conversations.
- [Inside the Mind of the Scam Artist: The Trickster Archetype](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-248-scam-artist/): Conned, swindled, or bilked, about 50 million Americans were ripped off by scammers in 2020. What deadens a person, so they prey on another?
- [BIPOLAR DISORDER: A Jungian Perspective](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-249-bipolar/): Bipolar individuals soar between opposing archetypes leaving them exhausted and confused. Myths help ground the ego in a larger perspective.
- [THE SCHIZOPHRENIA COMPLEX: How Do We Love Those in Chaos?](https://thisjungianlife.com/schizophrenia/): Schizophrenia submerges one in the unconscious. Jung on psychosis shows us we are different from those diagnosed with it only in degree.
- [HEARING VOICES: when our complexes begin to speak](https://thisjungianlife.com/ep7/): Auditory hallucinations like hearing voices may be the psyche’s attempt to heal. Understanding the multiple identities called complexes may hold a key.
- [Sacred Marriage: A Fusion of Instinct, Spirit, and Grit](https://thisjungianlife.com/marriage/): Journey to the heart of marital mystery. Explore its Jungian definition, purpose & significance fostering growth & authenticity.
- [ROAD TRIP: outer journey, inner mission](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-230-road-trip/): The road trip beckons - to see and to seek is a mythological theme with an American stamp, from wagon trains to memoirs and movies.
- [APHRODITE'S SHADOW: Drowning in Beauty](https://thisjungianlife.com/aphrodites-shadow/): We explore the perils and charms of the goddess Aphrodite archetype with author Arlene Landau and reveal the need for wisdom, not just love.
- [HOMESICKNESS: Longing & Belonging](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-214-homesickness/): Homesickness asks that we bear leave-taking and loneliness in service to belonging to a wider world, building new relationships, and the eventual realization that the soul’s true home is a transcendent source of personal being.
- [Imp of the Perverse: struggling with our fiendish shadow](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-223-imp-of-the-perverse/): The impulse to take irrational and even immoral risks can cause inner torment and lead to damaging actions.
- [Hansel and Gretel: Overcoming Trauma](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-222-hansel-and-gretel-overcoming-trauma/): Fairy tales are fierce narratives of human shadow and its transformation. Hansel and Gretel depicts raw childhood trauma.
- [The Transcendent Function: Getting Unstuck](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-117-the-transcendent-function-getting-unstuck/): The transcendent function comes in all sizes, from "aha" moments to epiphanies. A new orientation to a dilemma arrives unthought, recognized, and right.
- [Jung & Freud: From “Bro” to Broken](https://thisjungianlife.com/bonus-episode-jung-freud-from-bro-to-broken/): Jung and Freud received "Kleine Drachenn Tatowwierung" (Small Dragon Tattoos) the evening of their first meeting on March 3, 1907.
- [The Wounded Healer](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-176-the-wounded-healer/): Just as every wounded patient has inner health, every healer has an inner wound. If consciously known, the analyst’s wound serves the healing process.
- [Episode 40 - What's Unique about Jungian Analysis?](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-40-whats-unique-about-jungian-analysis/): How is Jungian analysis different from other psychotherapies? What are its major components and distinguishing features? And what makes it effective?
- [EXILE & ALIENATION: surviving catastrophic rejection](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-156-exile-and-alienation/): Alienation and exile are internal states of deadness and despair - an uncanny valley that feels featureless, gray, and unending.
- [VAMPIRES: the dark seduction of immortality](https://thisjungianlife.com/ep9/): Explore the symbolism and psychology of the vampire archetype in popular culture. Discover how it reflects our deepest desires and fears.
- [CHOOSING A LIFE PARTNER](https://thisjungianlife.com/ep8/): Choosing a life partner is a journey full of twists and turns. Discover the key factors to consider, from compatibility to matters of the heart.
- [ALCOHOLISM: Bill W. and Jung](https://thisjungianlife.com/ep6/): Jung was involved with Bill W. and influenced the formation of Alcoholics Anonymous. They both sensed the drive toward alcohol was a misdirected search for God.
- [SHAME: confronting the bonds of dread](https://thisjungianlife.com/ep5/): Ashamed, shameless or shame free - which of these is most alive in the culture right now? Why do we feel existential shame, and how can it be healed?
- [EMOTIONAL AFFAIRS: betrayals or paths to growth?](https://thisjungianlife.com/ep4/): Refusing to act out our fantasies even as we allow our imaginations to roam freely can be a formula for personal growth and self-knowledge.
- [THE SHAPE OF WATER: a tale of tragedy or triumph?](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-3-the-shape-of-water/): Is The Shape of Water a tale of psychotic escape from hopelessness or a spiritual intervention from the collective? Join us as we wrestle with its meaning.
- [HOOKUPS: helpful, hurtful or irrelevant?](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-2-hookups/): Are hookups a joyous celebration of unbridled sexual expression? A defense against intimacy? All of the above?
- [IRRESISTIBLE INVITATIONS: the powerful seduction of possibilities](https://thisjungianlife.com/irresistible-invitations/): Invitations are a siren song to adventure, growth, and a sense of belonging. Choose wisely before stepping boldly into possibilities and embrace unpredictability.
- [SACRED SYMPTOMS: how does the numinous heal?](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-130-sacred-symptoms-how-the-numinous-heals/): Life crisis and trauma can also open us to the numinous: fairy tales, myths, and religious texts relate happenings of help when all seemed lost. Whether sought or suffered, something greater appears when ego yields. We can act on the guidance that is given, and may attain the healing gifted by experience of the numinous.
- [NEUROSIS: befriending our broken places](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-132-neurosis-befriending-our-broken-places/): Jung says neurosis “must be understood, ultimately, as the suffering of a soul which has not discovered its meaning.” The purpose of neurosis is to help us discover our purpose.
- [HORROR: why can’t we look away?](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-135-horror-why-cant-we-look-away/): The hair on the back of our necks bristles in response to the horrors of the uncanny. Transfixed by shock, awe, dread and fascination, we can neither dare the dangerous darkness nor turn away.
- [QANON: ancient lies & sexual slanders](https://thisjungianlife.com/qanon-ancient-lies-and-sexual-slander/): Good people have been manipulated and radicalized by archetypal slander for thousands of years. QAnon is doing the same thing.
- [REVIVING OUR CAPACITY TO FEEL: the heart of Jung’s legacy](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-136-reviving-our-capacity-to-feel-the-core-of-jungs-legacy/): Marie-Louise von Franz, Jung’s close collaborator, capped her public work in a 1986 lecture that summarized Jung’s signal contributions to understanding the human experience.
- [SPIDER PARENTS: why can't I just move out?](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-138-spider-parents-finding-freedom-from-dependence/): The spider is a symbol of generative and destructive capabilities. As creator, spider spins the sustaining web of life. As predator, spider’s sticky web is an inescapable trap. Parents weave webs of familial ties, cultural norms, and generational patterns that contain—or restrain--their children. Emotional strings of attachment or enmeshment affect how—or if—a young adult child is released into the world.
- [VISIONARY IMAGINATION: Jung’s private journals](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-139-visionary-imagination-jungs-private-journals/): We welcome Sonu Shamdasani, PhD, scholar and historian of depth psychology and Jung’s opus. His research and expertise were instrumental in bringing Jung’s Red Book to the public in 2009. Jung’s Black Books, the journals in which he recorded “my most difficult experiments,” have just been published. We discuss Jung’s encounters with figures and images from his psychic depths--experiences foundational to Jung’s subsequent work and which opened a portal to humankind’s imaginal mind and mythic substrata.
- [FANTASIES: do they guide or trap us?](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-141-fantasy-do-we-have-fantasies-or-do-they-have-us/): Fantasy is the process of engagement with unconscious processes, from the depths of the mythic unconscious to the personal make-believe.
- [WILLPOWER: choice, energy & the power to achieve](https://thisjungianlife.com/willpower/): Only humans have enough energy available to consciousness to escape the rule of instinct.
- [Archetype of the Good King](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-147-the-archetype-of-the-good-king/): The Good King archetype is the deepest matrix of every man's psyche. Activating it brings order, generativity, passion and insight.
- [MYTH AS MEDICINE: an interview with Kwame Scruggs, Ph.D.](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-148-myth-as-medicine-an-interview-with-kwame-scruggs-phd/): Kwame Scruggs inspires men through mythology, drumming and connection to community and culture. As a young man Kwame discovered his inner fire through African-based initiatory rites. He asked himself “What is it I really want to do? Not what could I do. What did I want to do?”
- [A COMEDIAN WALKS INTO A JUNGIAN PODCAST](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-155-a-comedian-walks-into-a-jungian-podcast/): Elliott Morgan, comedian and Ph.D. candidate in depth psychology at Pacifica Graduate Institute, joins us to explore humor and psyche.
- [MILKMAID REVELATIONS:  Jung’s erotic stamp collection](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-157-milkmaid-revelations-jungs-erotic-stamp-collection/): Jung’s erotic stamp collection was recently found tucked into the wall behind a bookcase, the box of stamps features provocatively rendered images of milkmaids from countries around the world. The milkmaid, symbolic of the archetypal feminine in the flower of fulsome youth, has long been prominent in the mythopoetic imagination of man.
- [THE PHOENIX: learning to trust life](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-158-the-phoenix-lifes-transformative-fires/): The phoenix represents long life, conscious acquiescence to death, and assured regeneration. The fiery alchemical process of calcinatio leaves behind a white ash equivalent to salt, that which cannot be burned: life, soul, and Eros.
- [THE ALCHEMY OF WRITING](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-159-the-alchemy-of-writing/): Writing is an encounter like no other with oneself and inner others, light and dark. We discover that ego alone does not do this job.
- [WHEN WORDS LOSE MEANING: is reality contained in language?](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-161-when-words-lose-their-meaning/): This Jungian Life and Dr. Bret Alderman discuss the alienation and dissociation that comes from deconstructing language and its meaning.
- [INTROVERSION: the secret value of silence](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-163-introversion/): Introverts are not shy, reclusive, fearful, detached, or avoidant—they simply find their inner world enlivening.
- [ASSESSING YOUR VALUES: meaning & motivation](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-164-assessing-your-values-meaning-motivation/): Values are the wellspring of libido: they motivate action toward goals. Dreams reveal conflicts between conscious and unconsciously held values.
- [RISK & REALITY: when fear traps us](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-165-risk-reality-when-fear-traps-us/): Assessing risk requires willingness to engage inner conflict--and discern, then answer, the call to enlarged life.
- [The Power of NO](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-166-the-power-of-no/): Fear of social rejection, workplace retaliation, or family conflict can erode our healthy NO, leading to an inability to answer the call to life.
- [EXTROVERSION!](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-167-extroversion/): Extraversion is “an attitude type characterized by concentration of interest on the external object.” ~ CG Jung.
- [THE UNSPOKEN WOUNDING OF MEN](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-168-the-unspoken-wounding-of-men/): Phallos, the central archetype of a man's psyche, was once worshipped as sacred. Its urgent, dynamic, and fertilizing power was split off.
- [THRESHOLD: Moving Between the Realms](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-169-threshold-moving-between-the-realms/): In psychoanalytic work, the threshold is a symbol—a visible but not literal representation that calls consciousness to apprehend a larger, unseen reality.
- [PAYING ATTENTION: What Are You Spending It On?](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-171-paying-attention-what-are-you-spending-it-on/): What we focus on sets inner forces in motion that shape our psychology and actions. Pay attention to what you pay attention to!
- [Tarot, Divination & the Symbolic Life](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-175-tarot-divination-the-symbolic-life/): The 78 Tarot cards offer gateways to meaning. Jung says symbols act as transformers—life energy is converted from a lower to higher form by the amplification that consciousness provides.
- [SPLITTING: Understanding What Divides Us](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-177-splitting-understanding-what-divides-us/): Splitting reduces anxiety by locating the problem “out there,” allowing us to reject what we find aversive and affirm our own virtue.
- [The Archetype of WAR](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-179-war/): Recent events in Afghanistan have again put war at the forefront of collective consciousness. War’s destruction belongs to the mythic realm.
- [INFLUENCE: Connection or Contagion?](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-180-influence-connection-or-contagion/): Cultural contagions and psychic epidemics are not new—they just come dressed in the flashy new garb of social media and telecommunication.
- [JUSTICE: The Struggle for Balance](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-183-justice-the-struggle-for-balance/): We must distinguish injustice from loss, recognize what can and cannot be changed, and orient to the future.
- [THE ARCHETYPE OF THE WITCH: Dangerous, Denied & Dishonored](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-186-the-archetype-of-the-witch-dangerous-denied-dishonored/): The witch symbolizes our fear and vulnerability to the Great Mother in her dark, heartless aspect--and her power remains.
- [HUMANIZING THE HERO](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-188-humanizing-the-hero/): Unlike mythical heroes, everyday heroes struggle—and living fully into a larger purpose serves their personal development.
- [FALLING IN LOVE: Bewitched, Bothered & Bewildered](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-190-falling-in-love-bewitched-bothered-bewildered/): Falling in love is an initiation into the divine - light, and dark - as personal and archetypal forces combine and combust.
- [ARCHETYPES AND THE CREATIVE PROCESS: A Discussion with Third Coast Percussion](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-191-archetypes-and-the-creative-process-a-discussion-with-third-coast-percussion/): Archetypes is a sonic exploration of the human experience. This Jungian Life in conversation with musicians Clarice Assad and David Skidmore features an exploration of the creative process.
- [Jonah & the Whale: a dream for our time](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-195-jonah-the-whale-a-dream-for-our-time/): The journey of Jonah and the whale is a story of refusing one’s fate and finding a way back to right relationship with the Self.
- [LEGACY: living toward the long future](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-196-legacy-living-toward-the-long-future/): It is an act of benevolent imagination to accompany our choices forward in time and take responsibility for their fruits.
- [The Inner Work of Age: Shifting from Role to Soul](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-197-the-inner-work-of-age-shifting-from-role-to-soul/): Dr. Connie Zweig, Ph.D., retired Jungian-psychotherapist and author, joins us to discuss her new book, The Inner Work of Age.
- [FORGIVENESS OR FURY: Finding a Way Forward](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-202-forgiveness-or-fury-finding-a-way-forward/): Forgiveness requires the capacity to hold both the magnitude of the injury and the humanity of the injurer.
- [CAUGHT IN THE CONFLICT: The Tension of Opposites](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-206-caught-in-the-conflict-the-tension-of-opposites/): "The ego keeps its integrity only if it does not identify with one of the opposites, and if it understands how to hold the balance between them." CG Jung
- [HUNTING: An Archetypal Perspective](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-207-hunting-an-archetypal-perspective/): To hunt is to engage the opposites: the hunter must attune and align with nature in order to kill part of it
- [MORAL INJURY: Violation of Meaning](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-208-moral-injury-violation-of-meaning/): Moral injury violates our sense of justice, loyalty, and meaning—and creates a storm in the soul.
- [THE GETHSEMANE ENCOUNTER](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-209-the-gethsemane-encounter/): The Garden of Gethsemane is the place of life crisis; it permits no escape or compromise. There, we suffer the agony of choosing between personal will or willing submission to something greater.
- [CAUSAL OR CREATIVE: Is History Destiny?](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-210-causal-or-creative-is-history-destiny/): Jung preferred to look for what’s emerging in the psyche rather than being stuck in the past.
- [THE PRODIGAL SON as Shadow, Ego & the Self](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-212-the-prodigal-son-as-shadow-ego-the-self/): The allegorical tale of the Prodigal Son illustrates Jung’s basic understanding of the structure and development of the psyche.
- [VOCATION: Answering the Call](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-213-vocation-answering-the-call/): Freud considered love and work the cornerstones of our humanness, and Jung said, “In the final analysis, we count for something only because of the essential we embody, and if we do not embody that, life is wasted.”
- [Hans Christian Andersen: Persona & Personhood](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-216-hc-andersen/): While many of Hans Christian Andersen’s 19th-century stories have moralizing motifs, their universality and depth places them among ageless fairy tales.
- [DEATH: A Jungian Perspective](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-217-death/): Awareness of death can help us create an intentional life—one that serves the movement of soul toward wholeness.
- [Dream Incubation with Machiel Klerk](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-218-dream-incubation/): The TJL crew interviews Machiel Klerk. We discuss methods of dream incubation as an ancient and modern method of soliciting important inner guidance.
- [Archetypal Aspects of School](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-219-archetypal-aspects-of-school/): Schools have existed across cultures and throughout time; the knowledge they transmit leads us out of childhood, shapes our values and world view, and grooms us for citizenship.
- [Can We Consider Abortion?](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-220-abortion/): Issues like abortion test our ability to tolerate ambiguity and anxiety without activating the polarizing defenses of judging, moralizing, or demonizing the other.
- [Archetype of the Wave: image of energy and motion](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-225-wave/): Waves are a potent archetypal image of energy that reflect inner psychic processes. - we can cower in fear or ride them in exultation!
- [HERMES: Divine Trickster](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-226-hermes/): Hermes is the symbol of a living reality seeking conscious acknowledgment, the agent of creativity and transformation.
- [COMPARTMENTALIZATION: Coping with Contradiction](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-227-compartmentalization/): Compartmentalization is like a home electrical panel that separates power into different zones like ideas, feelings and actions.
- [Donald Kalsched: Trauma & the Informed Heart](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-228-donald-kalsched/): Don Kalsched tells us that when there is unbearable emotional pain in childhood, archetypal defenses dismember such experience and banish parts of it.
- [HATRED: a way to hide our secrets](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-229-hatred/): Hatred is a universal human emotion related to anger, disgust, judgment, and contempt cemented into implacable permanence.
- [THE QUEEN: Archetype & Individual](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-231-the-queen/): Queen Elizabeth II fulfilled the promise of the crown, ancient symbol of exalted life, conferring its possibility and promise upon subjects and admirers.
- [Theory of Enchantment: Chloe Valdary](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-232-chloe-valdary/): Could the antidote to racism be enchantment? Chloe Valdary's work is rooted in understanding that celebrates the complexity of the human spirit.
- [The Problem with Problems: solve or avoid?](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-236-problems/): Problems confront us with a basic choice: action or avoidance—but action without analysis can put us at risk for failure.
- [Zombies: a call to consciousness](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-237-zombies/): The undead alarm and awaken us. Our inner zombies force us to fight our dark and deadening complexes through vigilance and action.
- [SEWING: Stitching a Life Together](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-239-sewing/): What we sew has a limited lifespan, as do we. Stitching our inner and outer lives together day by day, we can create raiment for the soul.
- [STAY AT HOME DADS: emerging potentials in the father archetype](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-240-stay-at-home-dads/): Fathers are finding new ways to express themselves as caregivers which does not diminish their experience of masculinity but rallies inner resources.
- [GAMES: metaphor for life](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-241-games/): Games introduce us to the conditions, limits and opportunities of life that we must learn to engage. They prepare us to meet reality.
- [MELANCHOLY: the exquisite ache of life](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-242-melancholy/): When we embrace melancholy, we create space for mourning and healing, and like Hephaestus, finding the inner fire to forge something new. 
- [REVOLUTION: the way of radical renewal](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-243-revolution/): For Jung, revolution “is not conversion into the opposite but conservation of previous values together with recognition of their opposites.”
- [Eating the Lion](https://thisjungianlife.com/eating-the-lion/): Animals appear in all kinds of guises in dreams. When an animal visits us in a dream, we know we have had an archetypal encounter -- but of what kind? This dream lends itself to a consideration of two very different ways we might understand the image of eating a lion.
- [Dreams of Destruction](https://thisjungianlife.com/dreams-of-destruction/): Images of great destruction are a common theme in dreams. These scenes often recall the tarot card of "The Tower." What once stood tall and sturdy is laid waste in a scene of destruction and chaos. Dreams such as these can be tremendously frightening. Other times, we are able to see that they also picture an opportunity for renewal.
- [In the Bath with Putin](https://thisjungianlife.com/in-the-bath-with-putin/): Have you ever had a dream about a political figure? Maybe someone you admire and revere, or possibly someone you find odious and detestable. Political figures can carry powerful suggestions of split off or denied parts of ourselves. Sometimes we meet positive inner potentials even in images of our worst politicians.
- [The North Pole](https://thisjungianlife.com/the-north-pole/): Images of snow and ice abound in dreams, sometimes speaking to us of emotional coldness or frozen feelings. In this dream, the inhospitable blizzard raging outside contrasts with the warm, safe space of the cabin.
- [My Parents, the Sea Monsters](https://thisjungianlife.com/my-parents-the-sea-monsters/): We dream of our parents throughout our lives. As adults, dreams of our parents often relate to unresolved issues around our parental complexes. As such, these dreams can alert us to where old attitudes are holding us back.
- [Joining the Dance](https://thisjungianlife.com/im-not-participating/): Dreams that take place in a school or classroom are very common. The dream might be directing our attention back to students days, alluding to unfinished business. Or the dream may be reminding us that we are yet students of life and have much to learn, even though we think we graduated many years ago.
- [SHADOWLAND: DETRANSITION – THE STORY OF BETH](https://thisjungianlife.com/shadowland-detransition-the-story-of-beth/): Beth underwent gender transition from natal female to trans male and has since de-transitioned. She wishes she'd had more help differentiating her inner world from her gender expression.
- [Episode 81 - Empathy](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-081-empathy/): Empathy, the ability to feel into the suffering of another, is an intrinsic part of being human. We have such a capacity to imagine others' experience that we react physiologically and emotionally to painful situations even in film. We are surprised, sometimes shocked, when the empathy we expect in a given situation is not
- [Episode 97 - A Psychology of Redemption](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-097-a-model-of-redemption/): As we grow, unconscious unity becomes differentiated into feeling, ego, personality and desire. As we grow, we will have initiatory encounters with shadow, demanding the sacrifice of innocence and identification with ego. The story of Adam and Eve conceives this archetypal experience as the fall. The stories of Job, Faust and even the children's
- [Episode 123 -- Every Hero's Journey](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-123-every-heros-journey/): The would-be hero first declines, then answers the call; he suffers tests and trials, succeeds with help from unexpected sources, and returns with the gifts of all he has learned.
- [Episode 121 -- Not Alone: Finding the Inner Companion](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-121-not-alone-finding-the-inner-companion/): Every companion is an image of the inner Other, and is present whenever gifts of wisdom, care and guidance are received.
- [Episode 70 - Dating](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-070-dating/): We define dating as the quest for serious partnership or ongoing companionship. Today's dating world is radically different from that of even a generation ago, and is light years away from previous generations. Dating apps and social media expedite and expand the range the search for a suitable other - and often turns dating
- [Episode 122 -- Covered: And Archetypal Take on the COVID Mask](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-122-covered-and-archetypal-take-on-the-covid-mask/): Masks provide access to our shape-shifting potential, connect us to our instinctual depths, mediate our relationship to the spirits, and open a portal to the mythic realm of story and drama.
- [Episode 96 - Polyamory: Navigating the Complexities of the Heart](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-097-polyamory-complexities-of-the-heart/): Polyamory, a current phenomenon, endorses open relationships with multiple lovers. The term means many loves, and polyamory strives to legitimize the benefits of non-monogamous romance and sexuality among adults.
- [Episode 36 - ADULTING: Leaving the Parental Path](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-36-adulting-leaving-the-parental-path/): What does it mean to separate from one’s parents and parental complexes—the attitudes and values that have been deeply instilled since infancy? How do we discern when we are in a parental complex, whether we are aligned with it or rebelling against it? What can we do to resolve the hold these complexes can have
- [Episode 29 - Envy and Jealousy: Hobgoblins in Relationships](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-29-envy-and-jealousy-hobgoblins-in-relationships/): Envy is a painful symptom of disconnection from the Self. We relate envy and jealousy to early developmental dynamics, with envy related to the dyad of mother-and-baby and jealousy arriving a later, when the child realizes that sometimes he is left out of his parent’s relationship with one another.
- [Episode 30 - Escaping Literalism](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-30-escaping-literalism/): We consider literalism a normal childhood state - children’s literalism can be funny and charming.
- [Episode 34 - The Scapegoat](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-34-the-scapegoat/): The archetype of the scapegoat goes back to the ancient Hebrew ritual of using two goats to expiate the sins of the tribe. Once blamed for the wrongdoings and misfortunes of the community, the goats were driven out into the desert carrying the evil with them thus restoring a state of purity to the tribal members.
- [Episode 26 - Betrayal](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-26-betrayal/): The experience of betrayal is painful, confusing, and damaging to one’s basic sense of self and reality.
- [Episode 22 - Pressure to Conform and Differentiation](https://thisjungianlife.com/ep22/): The pressure to conform to familial and cultural values provides guidelines for each new generation – and can also stifle the uniqueness necessary not only to the individual but to family and cultural health.
- [Episode 20 - Mother-in-Law](https://thisjungianlife.com/ep20/): The mother-in-law is not only the subject of many a joke but the subject of fairy tale and myth.
- [Episode 16 - The Archetype of the Gun](https://thisjungianlife.com/ep16/): As three analysts, we explore the archetype of “the gun” from a Jungian psychological view and seek to understand it’s influence in the collective psyche of Americans.
- [Bonus Episode - On Becoming a Jungian Analyst](https://thisjungianlife.com/bonus-episode-on-becoming-a-jungian-analyst/): Many listeners have expressed interest in Jungian analytic training. We welcome those inquiries and outline the prerequisites, practicalities and processes which lead up to and constitute Jungian analytic training--a life path of ongoing growth, challenge and satisfaction.
- [Episode 11 - Fairy Tales](https://thisjungianlife.com/ep11/): Why do Jungians care about fairy tales?
- [Episode 12 - Anxiety](https://thisjungianlife.com/ep12/): Anxiety is one of the most common complaints that bring people into therapy. While it can be difficult to differentiate anxiety from healthy fear we all agree that finding an ally to stand with us makes a big difference.
- [Episode 14 -- Dreams](https://thisjungianlife.com/ep14/): Jung was one of the primary theorists who added to our understanding of the psychological significance of dreams, and working with dreams is often a central part of an analytic process. What is the Jungian understanding of why we dream? What does it mean if we don't dream, and what are some ways of learning
- [Episode 15 - Toxic Masculinity](https://thisjungianlife.com/ep15/): How can we understand the superficial label assigned to masculine behavior in today’s meme-driven style of discourse?
- [Episode 17 - Lying](https://thisjungianlife.com/ep17/): Lying, hiding and sneaking are examples of trickster behavior, discussed as they occur in political and personal spheres.
- [Episode 19 - Sin and Transgression](https://thisjungianlife.com/ep19/): In archery, sin refers to missing the mark, whereas transgression involves violation of a cultural boundary.
- [Episode 21 - Living with a Crazy Parent](https://thisjungianlife.com/ep21/): Living with a parent who is seriously impaired can be traumatic and have lasting consequences.
- [Episode 23 - Indecision](https://thisjungianlife.com/ep23/): Many people have difficulty making decisions, whether large or small. Among other factors, the psychology behind the fear of making a decision can be related to fear of making a mistake, lack of motivation, suppressed anger and aggression, and difficulty accepting the limitations and ordinariness of adulthood.
- [Episode 24 - Motherhood as a Depth Initiation](https://thisjungianlife.com/ep24/): The experience of motherhood evokes powerful feelings, ranging from joy and bonding to anger and rejection.
- [Episode 25 - The Psychology of Divination: a depth approach](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-25-tarot-i-ching-and-divination/): Divinatory systems have been used for thousands of years as a source of help and direction to people wishing to resolve situations of personal uncertainty.
- [Episode 27 - Dream Animals](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-27-dream-animals/): In this podcast, we focus on animals as symbols of instincts that have often been repressed in order to conform to cultural norms. When some aspect of our instinctual nature returns to us as a dream animal we can find ourselves fleeing, fighting, denying, or befriending an aspect of ourselves represented by that animal. Because
- [Episode 28 - Boredom](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-28-boredom/): Boredom is not depression or dissociation, sadness or loneliness…but what is it?
- [Episode 31 - Food Addiction](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-31-food-addiction/): Compulsive eating is a complicated psychological and biological problem. Food addiction can be a way of defending against unmet needs by displacing emotional hunger onto food. We discuss how infant experiences with eating and soothing can shape one’s relationship to food in adulthood. Two fairy tales tell of parents with insatiably devouring babies and illustrate
- [Episode 32 - Slobs](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-32-slobs/): What happens when one is held captive by the mud of messiness?
- [Episode 33 - Archetypal Dynamics of Gender Transition](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-33-archetypal-aspects-of-gender-transition/): Lisa, Joseph, and Deb circumambulate the difficult issue of gender reassignment. They discuss the significance of teen girls wishing to transition and the current tendency to foreclose the meaning of this and move rapidly into medical procedures, a process of concretization instead of curiosity and exploration. Lisa discusses previous examples of symptoms and their diagnoses
- [Episode 35 -- Loneliness](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-35-loneliness/): Loneliness is a deeply human and universal experience. Lisa, Joseph and Deb examine it from multiple perspectives: as it may be experienced in young adulthood versus older years; as reflective of the need for attachment and relational security; as comparable to the alchemical metaphors of calcinatio and solutio; as a call to activation in outer
- [Episode 37 - Narcissism](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-37-narcissism/): The myth of Narcissus constitutes the archetypal root of the character structure of narcissism. Aspects of narcissism run from the healthy developmental narcissism of a child to the toxic narcissism of the psychopath, but all have in common a lack of empathy, whether momentary or chronic. We offer some thoughts on how to tell if
- [Episode 38 - Holiday Madness](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-38-holiday-madness/): As the holiday season approaches, we examine the tidal pull of the ancient, archetypal power of the solstice season. Because of this underpinning, together with the power of family narratives, roles, and complexes, the holidays can be fraught with intense feeling, from hope to regression to disappointment. We discuss ways to manage feelings, intention, and
- [Episode 41 - Regret](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-41-regret/): Along with our guest podcaster Brazilian Jungian analyst Leticia Capriotti, we explore the psychological underpinnings of regret. We consider that sometimes regret can arise as a result of self-betrayal. We link it to the unlived life that can haunt us and demand our attention. At times, this unlived life may reach into the ancestral past,
- [Episode 42 - Over Apologizing](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-42-over-apologizing/): What is "I'm sorry" as a habitual response really about? There's the preemptive apology that is offered to forestall possible criticism, the apology that evokes reassurance from others, the apology for falling short of perfection…and more. This episode explores developmental, interpersonal, and intrapsychic dynamics of various kinds of habitual apologizing. We'll be sorry if
- [Episode 43 - Heartbreak](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-43-heartbreak/): Heartbreak is more primal, more pervasive, and more related to one's sense of self than sadness is. Our hearts can break over the death of a dearly loved other, including a pet…and our hearts can break over the death of a relationship as well as the death of our hopes, dreams, innocence, idealizations, and
- [Episode 44 - The Archetypal Power of Football](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-44-the-archetypal-power-of-football/): Football is a uniquely American sport with millions of fans, heroic teams, and stadiums reminiscent of colosseums. As the Super Bowl approaches – television's most-watched show – Lisa, Joseph, and Deb consider the archetypal underpinnings that contribute to making football America's most watched sport. They consider the light and dark sides of fandom, the
- [Episode 45 - The Wall](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-45-the-wall/): With "The Wall" very much in the forefront of national discussion, Deb, Lisa and Joseph reflect on the archetype of walls. Some may be stonewalls simply marking boundaries between neighbors. Others may be massive defenses like the Great Wall of China. What do walls keep out – or keep in? What do we need
- [Episode 46 - Hiding](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-46-hiding/): Many a fairy tale features hiding as a strategic defense. Jack, of beanstalk fame, hides from the giant in order to survive and discover his treasure. We often hide when we feel small and life events and people feel big. Hiding can be a conscious decision, whether for fun, as in the game of hide
- [Episode 47 - Falling in Love with your Analyst](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-47-falling-in-love-with-the-analyst/): As Jung well knew, eros – love – is an essential part of the analytic process. In Vol. 16 of his Collected Works Jung used alchemical images of a king and queen to illustrate the various ways in which erotic feeling can enter the consulting room. The safety of a time-limited, fee-based relationship is
- [Episode 48 - Family Estrangement](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-48-estrangement/): Estrangement from members of one's family and others take place far more often than seems commonly acknowledged. Estrangement involves psychologically cutting-off, repressing, and defending against connection with another who has come to be experienced as "all bad." People may move away geographically, refuse to talk to a certain person, or simply give someone the
- [Episode 49 - Dietary Over-regulation and the Pursuit of Purity](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-49-dietary-over-regulation-and-the-pursuit-of-purity/): Preoccupation and obsession with food–a condition called orthorexia--can take the form of the quest for health and purity, with rigid rules about food categories, such as the need for all-organic ingredients or omitting food groups such as dairy, sugar, and gluten in the absence of identified physiological intolerances. This overall effort to banish anxiety
- [Episode 50 - Shopping](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-50-shopping/): Everyone shops—we have access to an astonishing choice of products. Internet shopping has multiplied our range of options beyond what nearby retail stores may have to offer. Desired items range from off-roading trucks to gold jewelry to highly specialized cookware items. What are we seeking for our inner selves as we shop for outer
- [Episode 51 - What is Your Therapist Thinking?](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-51-what-is-your-therapist-thinking/): Lisa, Joseph, and Deb explore and explain what the analytic process is like for them as they work with clients. Deb describes her interactions with clients using a rectangular diagram that, like the Scottish flag, traces lines going from the two upper corners to the two lower corners. This represents the multi-directional flow of
- [Episode 52 - Precognitive Dreams](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-52-precognitive-dreams/): Listeners contributed examples of precognitive dreams for this episode. Lisa, Joseph, and Deb discuss theoretical concepts and listener dreams from various vantage points: the intuitive capacity of the unconscious, the synchronous intersection of matter and psyche, and activation of an archetype.
- [Episode 53 - Should I Stay or Should I Go?](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-53-should-i-stay-or-should-i-go/): One of the issues clients bring into the therapeutic consulting room is dissatisfaction with the state of their marriage or partnership. Although this dilemma often takes shape as bipolar, it represents a challenge to engagement with deep, defended parts of self and relationship. Joseph, Lisa, and Deb make it clear they are not focusing
- [Episode 54 - Chronic Lateness](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-54-chronic-lateness/): People who are chronically late create relational problems with others and generate negative consequences for themselves, from embarrassment and guilt to loss of friendships or jobs. Chronic lateness evidences a split between consciousness and the unconscious: while the ego may feel distressed about lateness, the unconscious may be expressing an unmet need and deriving
- [Episode 55 - Identifying and Integrating the Personal Shadow](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-55-identifying-integrating-the-personal-shadow/): The personal shadow is created as a normal part of development, as we learn what behaviors, values and feelings are not acceptable in our family, school, or religious tradition. In order to be accepted by needed significant others, parts of ourselves have to be split off from consciousness and are therefore relegated to the
- [Episode 56 - Persona](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-56-persona/): This episode, inspired by the new album by the Korean band BTS, explains and amplifies the Jungian concept of the persona. Like the cornea of the eye, persona both shields us and makes opening up to the world possible. In ancient Greek theater, the actors wore masks that identified their roles, or personae. Similarly,
- [Episode 57-Ambivalence](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-57-ambivalence/): Having mixed feelings, or strongly opposing feelings is a normal occurrence in human life. We can find ourselves in a quandary about big decisions, upcoming life events, or experience being stuck without quite knowing why. Deb, Joseph, and Lisa consider various facets of ambivalence: anxiety around foreclosing options and missing out fear of regret
- [Episode 58 - The Art & Practice of Bitchiness](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-58-bitch/): In this episode, the archetype of the bitch is explored using fairy tales, mythology, and popular culture to shed light on this colloquial, pejorative term. The term is applied most frequently to assertive women - and to men acting in a way deemed "feminine" - who are either not sufficiently in touch with their
- [Episode 59 - Offense and Outrage](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-59-offense-and-outrage/): Anything that disappears from your psychological inventory is apt to turn up in the guise of a hostile neighbor, who will inevitably arouse your anger and make you aggressive. It is surely better to know that your worst enemy is right there in your own heart. ~CG Jung, Vol 10, para 456 Very often
- [Episode 60 - Psychological Dismemberment: Why We Can't Stay Connected](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-60-psychological-dismemberment-when-we-cant-stay-connected/): Images of physical dismemberment are often used in fairy tales, dreams, and art to depict psychological fragmentation, numbing and other forms of disconnection. Such cut-offs, dissociations, and splits may be related to earlier relational trauma, and constitute defenses against experiences perceived as too overwhelming for consciousness to absorb or even acknowledge. Experience can be
- [Episode 62 - The Psychology of the Victim](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-062-the-psychology-of-a-victim/): We can experience powerful feelings of empathy for those who are victims of trauma in all its heartbreaking dimensions. It is difficult even to consider a shadow side to this already dark aspect of human experience. Nevertheless, it is important also to consider the difference between lived experiences of victimization and meaning-making narratives that
- [Episode 63 - Tears](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-63-tears/): We all shed tears. We cry when we are sad, but also when we are glad, surprised by beauty, love, or touched by other deeply felt and uniquely human experiences. Tears, and our access to them are part of what makes us human, and when we cannot find our tears we have lost a vital
- [Episode 64 - Voyages](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-64-voyages/): "Although the word voyage connotes a sea journey, this episode considers a voyage to be an intentional trip of any kind. "
- [Episode 65 - Burnout](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-65-burnout/): Burnout is a relatively new term for job-related distress or an ongoing life situation that is unsatisfying, defeating, and creates a sense of despair. Burnout robs us of our sense of control and agency—we feel unable to change the troubling situation. Burnout can also be related to our internalized parents, moral convictions, and sense of
- [Episode 66 - Cults](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-66-cults/): Although cults occasionally make the headlines through tragedy or scandal, the defining features of cults are inherently human and manifest on spectrums of both severity and size. The word cult is derived from culture. While culture refers to the overarching characteristics of a society, cult refers negatively to a marginalized subgroup. Cults tap into universal human feelings and
- [Episode 67 -  Early Abandonment](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-067-early-abandonment/): Experiences of physical abandonment are depicted in stories old and new as ways of out-picturing traumas of early relational abandonment. Jung articulated the archetypal foundation of what later psychologists came to call attachment theory. In an infant's primal state of identification with a mothering other, lack of caregiver availability and attunement constitutes psychic abandonment.
- [Episode 68 - Chronic Illness](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-68-chronic-illness/): Chronic illnesses affect many, creating diminishment of physical ability and energy for life activities. There can be loss of agency, loss of one’s expected future, and a sharpened awareness of loss of life. There is a new need for conscious intention and reality-based decisions in order to avoid denial while adjusting to limitations and managing
- [Episode 69 - Retirement](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-069-retirement/): The life transition we call retirement mandates a major readjustment in how time, energy and money are spent, whether retirement means becoming a "snowbird" or having a stepped-down lifestyle. Work has structured the rhythm of life and time; most have found aspects of identity, status, and socialization at work, regardless of how fulfilling, arduous
- [Episode 71 - Self Talk](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-071-self-talk/): Although only some of us talk aloud to ourselves, all of us have inner voices, even if we are not aware of them. These autonomous parts of ourselves provide running commentary on how and what we are doing. Are our inner commentators friendly and supportive, or critical and attacking? We turn to fairy tales,
- [Episode 72 - Puer & Puella: Trapped in the Inner Child](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-072-puer-puella-trapped-in-the-inner-child/): If the passage into fullsome adulthood is avoided, a person can be trapped in the world of childhood. This protected realm is a nexus of potential, defined by avoiding the rigors of the real for the pleasures of possibility. Peter Pan, who chose to remain in never-never-land, is a well-known image for the flighty
- [Episode 73 - Procrastination](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-073-procrastination/): We all procrastinate. Tasks from making a doctor's appointment to preparing taxes to doing the laundry invite us to put off until tomorrow what we can postpone today. We may distract ourselves by going online, doing errands, or minimizing the time a job will take. Although procrastination signals that a given task is hard
- [Episode 74 - Borderline Personality Disorder](https://thisjungianlife.com/74-borderline-personality-disorder/): While psychiatric diagnostic labels often reify the complexities of psychological dynamics, they can also orient us to the essential qualities of a particular emotional and behavioral field. BPD is characterized by difficulty with affect regulation, intense and unstable interpersonal relationships, impulsive behavior, and a tendency toward highly polarized emotions: idealization / elation versus devaluation / despair. BPD is associated with early relational deficits, especially in caretakers' capacity to maintain connection when their child is angry or aggressive. If intense early emotional states have not been well moderated, they can take on the force of emotional tsunamis, overwhelm the ego, and lead to impetuous and self-harming behaviors. A deep therapeutic and human process can re-inspire the possibility that one can find one's center in a human relationship.
- [Episode 78 - Infertility: when the mother archetype fails to constellate](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-078-infertility/): Hey TJL Fans, There's a great Jungian conference in Minneapolis MN this November 1 & 2. Here's a link to the flyer and since it's by 'invitation only' just say, "This Jungian Life sent me" and you're in! https://irsja.org/irsja-invitational-conference/ We three will be attending and if you see us be sure to say hello.
- [Episode 80 - When Therapy Ends](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-080-when-therapy-ends/): A planned, collaborative termination is the ideal way to bring a depth-oriented therapeutic process to a close. The client may have resolved a problematic life issue and/or have achieved an abiding sense of wholeness. When both partners feel the client's sense of completion and readiness for a new phase of life, this kind of
- [Episode 82 - Medicating Psyche](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-082-medicating-psyche/): The question of whether, when, and what psychoactive medications may be helpful is both big and ambiguous. Mental distress has always been strongly influenced by cultural filters and subjective perceptions.
- [Episode 83 - Ghostly Encounters](https://thisjungianlife.com/083-ghostly-encounters/): People have reported experiences with ghosts from antiquity; Jung documented his encounters with mysterious sensed presences. How do we make meaning of such experiences? Are they visitations from external beings? Could they be related to unconscious reactions to toxic substances, auditory subtleties, or erratic electromagnetic fields?
- [Episode 84 - Anger](https://thisjungianlife.com/84-anger/): Anger is a core human emotion. Newborns express instinctual cries of protest, and many a mythological god has wreaked archetypal havoc.
- [Episode 86 - Splitting, Polarization & Conflict](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-086-splitting-polarization-conflict/): It happens all the time: people and problems split into opposing camps, whether the conflict is internal, between partners, in a family or—as we know all too well—between political parties.
- [Episode 87 - The Racial Complex with Dr. Fanny Brewster](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-087-the-racial-complex/): Dr. Fanny Brewster, Jungian Analyst, colleague and friend, joins This Jungian Life to discuss her forthcoming book, The Racial Complex: A Jungian Perspective on Culture and Race.
- [Episode 88 - Partings & Farewells](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-088-partings-farewells/): Partings connote a finality of farewell that signifies completion of a relationship. We may part from a stage of life, depart from home or college, or say farewell to a person, process or project. Partings signify the end of a story that has been told and reached conclusion. The Japanese tale of Princess Moonbeam illustrates the importance of accepting a necessary ending: those who could not do so were turned into statues, fixed in eternal stasis.
- [Episode 89 - Sibling Complexes](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-089-sibling-complexes/): Siblings are embedded in the human psyche as they are in life. Even if one lacks siblings, there is ready access to them through friends, fairy tales, myths, and scripture.
- [Episode 90 - Scrooge on the Couch: How the Numinous Transforms](https://thisjungianlife.com/90-scrooge-on-the-couch-how-the-numinous-transformed-a-miser/): Charles Dickens' novella, A Christmas Carol, vividly portrays the journey to healing and transcendence. It was written in a fever, released on December 19, 1843, and sold out before Christmas. Ebenezer Scrooge's visitations by the spirits of Christmas Past, Present and Yet to Come are vivid depictions of the path from trauma to transformation. As in psychotherapy, Scrooge revisits his past; by reclaiming the feelings he exiled as a child, Scrooge discovers compassion and connection.
- [Episode 91 - Secrets](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-91-secrets/): Although a secret is usually considered information deliberately kept from others, we also keep secrets from ourselves. Internal secrets consist of emotionally laden knowledge that consciousness represses; the price of such secrets may be a complex or neurosis.
- [Episode 92 - Trickster](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-092-trickster/): The archetype of the trickster shows up in ambiguity, duplicity, contradiction and paradox. Usually depicted as masculine, trickster has been featured in tales worldwide through history. We see him as a boundary crosser, shape-shifting imitator, versatile adapter, and disruptor of norms whose deceptions often backfire on him.
- [Episode 93 - Dynamics of Change & Renewal](https://thisjungianlife.com/93-dynamics-of-change-renewal/): A new year often symbolizes a new beginning, with resolutions to make specific lifestyle changes related to self-improvement. Research indicates, however, that up to 88% of these resolutions fail. If changes—no matter how worthy--are imposed by ego alone, the unconscious is likely to have its say by rebelling.
- [Episode 94 - Finding Resilience as We Face New Disasters](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-94-finding-resilience-as-we-face-new-disasters/): Although there have been a number of recent destructive environmental events, the duration and devastation of the fires in Australia have made a powerful impact on the collective psyche. Volcanic eruptions and earthquakes, although disastrous to humans, seem acausal aspects of Nature.
- [Episode 95- Triggered: Understanding & Transforming Complexes](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-095-triggered-understanding-transforming-complexes/): When we speak of being triggered, what exactly is it that sends us into a familiar arc of feeling and behavior we may later regret? That mysterious force seems external and can elude our ability to locate it within. Jung called these autonomous and unconscious incursions complexes, and he discovered them through his Word Association Test.
- [Episode 98 - Climate Change: How Can We Welcome Upsetting Truths?](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-098-climate-change-how-can-we-welcome-upsetting-truths/): Recent severe environmental events have made facing climate change urgent. We talk with Jeffrey Kiehl, PhD, climate scientist, Jungian analyst, and author, about bringing a psychological perspective to our present situation and the process of change.
- [Episode 99 - Projection: When the Dart Lands](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-99-projection-when-the-dart-lands/): "The power of projections to hit psychic targets serves both defensive and integrative functions. Projections are a natural aspect of psychic functioning, as we know from watching children at play: we first see inner images "out there" in order to experience them internally."
- [Episode 100 - Outrageous! What Drives Shocking Behaviors?](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-100-outrageous-what-drives-shocking-behaviors/): We can all cite examples of behaviors that defy reason and meaning. How can we understand X shouting those things at a party, or the bizarre thing Y filmed himself doing on YouTube? There is a great array of psychological labels for such behaviors, as if pronouncing them "histrionic," "manic" or even "drunk" explains radical actions and cascades of feelings.
- [Episode 101 - Pessimism: Was Eeyore Right?](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-101-pessimism-was-eeyore-right/): "Could be worse. Not sure how, but it could be." For Eeyore, only perverse possibilities lie ahead, even if they are unknowable. Do gloomy expectations create self-fulfilling prophecies? Or are pessimists more realistic than naive optimists like Winnie the Pooh? Pessimism can be associated with depression, anxiety, sleep disorders and more. It may also motivate preparation and striving, especially if the pessimist believes he or she can overcome significant obstacles and succeed.
- [Episode 102 - Destiny: Are We Fated to Have One?](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-102-destiny-are-we-fated-to-have-one/): Questions about fate and destiny have existed for millennia. Fate often refers to unalterable realities, from genes to future events, whereas destiny points to future potential.
- [Episode 103 - Facing the Fear of Coronavirus: finding a grounding attitude](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-103-facing-the-fear-of-coronavirus-plague-pestilence-pandemic/): "The word plague derives from the Latin plangere, "to strike the breast as if in lamentation." The novel coronavirus has visited loss, fear and hardship on many. Nature in her destructive mode can radically disrupt cultural creations and norms and show us how fragile they – and we -- are."
- [Episode 104 - Therapist Disclosures: Withholding or Overloading?](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-104-therapist-disclosures-withholding-or-overloading/): Should an analyst share personal information with clients? Freud believed that the analyst should be devoid of personal presence, so he sat unseen behind his famous couch. Jung realized that regardless of theory, psychotherapy entailed two people in a room interacting.
- [Episode 105 - Ancestors: Our Psychological Inheritance](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-105-ancestors-our-psychological-inheritance/): The archetype of origins is in resurgence since the advent of ancestry-mapping programs. What are the psychological and symbolic meanings of ancestry? Identity is often strongly linked to ancestry in its ethnic and cultural aspects, and as the carrier of personal traits.
- [Episode 106 - When Everything Changes: Is There Opportunity in Crisis?](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-106-when-everything-changes-is-there-opportunity-in-crisis/): In the Chinese language, the two characters representing crisis are danger and opportunity. Can that possibly be true of these days of pandemic crisis, with physical, economic, and psychological destabilization? Voices of experience and wisdom speak to us about finding potential in desperate situations.
- [Episode 113 - LOCKDOWN: Decoding the Covid Complex](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-113-lockdown-decoding-the-covid-complex/): Oppressed, repressed and regressed, the forced restrictions of the Covid Complex have us in its grip. We may see friends and family more often than ever, but only on a screen.
- [Episode 115 - We Can't Breathe: Facing the Pain of Racism](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-115-we-cant-breathe-facing-the-pain-of-racism/): Racial injustice takes one's breath away. It reaches back to the psychic asphyxiations of the Middle Passage, slavery, and Jim Crow—cut-offs from home, family, freedom and justice. Racism persists in systemic inequities and ongoing instances of police violence.
- [Our Moral Compass: Understanding Guilt, Remorse, & Atonement](https://thisjungianlife.com/guilt/): The painful cycle of guilt, remorse, and atonement improves our character and moral sensitivity. Jung understood its necessity to develop consciousness.
- [Hypochondria’s Havoc and the Quest for Reassurance](https://thisjungianlife.com/hypochondria/): Dive into the Jungian Theory of Hypochondriasis, now called Illness Anxiety Disorder. Uncover its roots, psychological dynamics, and pathways to healing.
- [Nigredo: Finding Light in Our Darkness](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-107-nigredo-finding-light-in-our-darkness/): The alchemical term nigredo means black or blackening, and is associated with decomposition and putrefaction. As a psychological state, nigredo is "the great suffering and grief" which the detached forces of nature inflict on the soul. We realize in sorrow that what we thought were truths were illusory. Individuals may have taken pride in their virtues, talents or
- [Authority: Who's in Charge Around Here?](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-108-authority-whos-in-charge-around-here/): We can rebel against authority, be coerced into compliance, or fall into identification with a leader, but ultimately, we must claim our own authority.
- [Jung, UFOs & Aliens: the truth is out there!](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-111-jung-ufos-aliens-the-truth-is-out-there/): In "Flying Saucers," Jung took a phenomenological stance, acknowledging experiences of sightings without concretizing them as physical or dismissing them.
- [Midlife Crisis: Renewal or Stagnation](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-112-midlife-crisis-renewal-or-stagnation/): Jung was particularly interested in the second half of life, perhaps because after his own midlife crisis he found himself so surprisingly generative. We tend to spend the first half of life oriented to familial values and cultural norms for success.
- [Riots: When the Collective Catches Fire](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-114-riots-when-the-collective-catches-fire/): How can we understand the psychological wildfire of riots? Jung saw 2 world wars, and knew that mass movements had the power to manifest archetypal energy.
- [Dissociation: Encountering Our Inner Exile](https://thisjungianlife.com/episode-118-dissociation-encountering-our-inner-exile/): Dissociation, our psychic "circuit breaker," exists on a spectrum from "spacing out" to serious disorders that interfere with our ability to live our lives.
- [SCHADENFREUDE: Why do we enjoy seeing others fail?](https://thisjungianlife.com/define-schadenfreude/): We define Schadenfreude as delight in others' misfortune. From humorous mishaps to cruel laughter, discover the psychology behind why we enjoy others' shame.

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- [complexes](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/complexes/)
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- [Dream Analysis](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/dream-analysis/)
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- [heartbreak](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/heartbreak/)
- [Archetypes](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/archetypes/)
- [archetype](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/archetype/)
- [Complex](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/complex/)
- [Lisa Marchiano](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/lisa-marchiano/)
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- [anger management](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/anger-management/)
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- [secrets](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/secrets/)
- [trickster](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/trickster/)
- [attachment](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/attachment/)
- [C.G. Jung](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/c-g-jung/)
- [dream](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/dream/)
- [fairy tale](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/fairy-tale/)
- [trauma](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/trauma/)
- [Word Association Test](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/word-association-test/)
- [avoidance](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/avoidance/)
- [individuation](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/individuation/)
- [intimacy](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/intimacy/)
- [polyamory](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/polyamory/)
- [psychology](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/psychology/)
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- [change](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/change/)
- [Climate change](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/climate-change/)
- [ecology](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/ecology/)
- [environment](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/environment/)
- [global warming](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/global-warming/)
- [greenhouse effect](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/greenhouse-effect/)
- [instincts](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/instincts/)
- [Jeffrey Kiehl](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/jeffrey-kiehl/)
- [myth](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/myth/)
- [pessimism](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/pessimism/)
- [destiny](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/destiny/)
- [fate](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/fate/)
- [coping](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/coping/)
- [coronavirus](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/coronavirus/)
- [Jungian](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/jungian/)
- [resilience](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/resilience/)
- [politics](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/politics/)
- [Trump](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/trump/)
- [casual sex](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/casual-sex/)
- [hooking up](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/hooking-up/)
- [Tinder](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/tinder/)
- [fairytales](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/fairytales/)
- [hallucinations](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/hallucinations/)
- [symbolism](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/symbolism/)
- [The Shape of Water](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/the-shape-of-water/)
- [cheating](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/cheating/)
- [emotional affaris](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/emotional-affaris/)
- [falling in love](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/falling-in-love/)
- [shame](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/shame/)
- [A.A.](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/a-a/)
- [addiction](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/addiction/)
- [alcoholics anonymous](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/alcoholics-anonymous/)
- [hearing voices](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/hearing-voices/)
- [Dating](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/dating/)
- [dracula](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/dracula/)
- [fateful](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/fateful/)
- [magical](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/magical/)
- [serendipity](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/serendipity/)
- [Synchronicity](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/synchronicity/)
- [fairy tales](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/fairy-tales/)
- [symbolic thinking](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/symbolic-thinking/)
- [anxiety](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/anxiety/)
- [fear](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/fear/)
- [phobia](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/phobia/)
- [active imagination](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/active-imagination/)
- [creative imagination](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/creative-imagination/)
- [creativity](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/creativity/)
- [resolution](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/resolution/)
- [Iron John](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/iron-john/)
- [male initiation](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/male-initiation/)
- [toxic masculinity](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/toxic-masculinity/)
- [gun regulation](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/gun-regulation/)
- [guns](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/guns/)
- [second amendment](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/second-amendment/)
- [violence](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/violence/)
- [creative depression](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/creative-depression/)
- [melancholia](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/melancholia/)
- [suffering](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/suffering/)
- [transformation](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/transformation/)
- [cultural norms](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/cultural-norms/)
- [evil](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/evil/)
- [Shadow](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/shadow/)
- [sin](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/sin/)
- [envy](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/envy/)
- [marital problems](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/marital-problems/)
- [mother-in-law](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/mother-in-law-2/)
- [drama of the gifted child](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/drama-of-the-gifted-child/)
- [family dysfunction](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/family-dysfunction/)
- [toxic parent](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/toxic-parent/)
- [trauma history](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/trauma-history/)
- [conformity](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/conformity/)
- [loss of identity](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/loss-of-identity/)
- [role confusion](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/role-confusion/)
- [social norms](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/social-norms/)
- [socialization](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/socialization/)
- [Aboulomania](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/aboulomania/)
- [indecision](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/indecision/)
- [over thinking](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/over-thinking/)
- [paralysis by analysis](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/paralysis-by-analysis/)
- [motherhood](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/motherhood/)
- [parenting](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/parenting/)
- [Divination](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/divination/)
- [I Ching](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/i-ching-2/)
- [Tarot](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/tarot/)
- [Betrayal](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/betrayal/)
- [animal speak](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/animal-speak/)
- [dream animals](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/dream-animals/)
- [dream interpretation](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/dream-interpretation/)
- [ADD](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/add/)
- [boredom](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/boredom/)
- [concentration](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/concentration/)
- [jealously](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/jealously/)
- [narcissism](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/narcissism/)
- [defenses](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/defenses/)
- [literalism](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/literalism/)
- [symbolic attitude](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/symbolic-attitude/)
- [compulsive over eating](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/compulsive-over-eating/)
- [food addiction](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/food-addiction/)
- [disorganization](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/disorganization/)
- [slobs](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/slobs/)
- [sloppiness](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/sloppiness/)
- [unkempt](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/unkempt/)
- [gender](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/gender/)
- [trans](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/trans/)
- [transexual](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/transexual/)
- [Accusation](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/accusation/)
- [blame](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/blame/)
- [sacrifice](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/sacrifice/)
- [loneliness](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/loneliness/)
- [adulting](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/adulting/)
- [effectiveness](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/effectiveness/)
- [personal development](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/personal-development/)
- [Regression](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/regression/)
- [Narcissus](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/narcissus/)
- [personality disorder](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/personality-disorder/)
- [family conflict](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/family-conflict/)
- [analytical psychology training](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/analytical-psychology-training/)
- [training to be a jungian analyst](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/training-to-be-a-jungian-analyst/)
- [remorse](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/remorse/)
- [self criticism](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/self-criticism/)
- [agreeability](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/agreeability/)
- [compulsive apologizing](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/compulsive-apologizing/)
- [over apologizing](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/over-apologizing/)
- [sorry syndrome](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/sorry-syndrome/)
- [Breaking Up](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/breaking-up/)
- [Divorce](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/divorce/)
- [loss](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/loss/)
- [Separation](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/separation/)
- [Archetype of Football](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/archetype-of-football/)
- [Civilization and its Discontents](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/civilization-and-its-discontents/)
- [Football](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/football/)
- [sexual sublimation](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/sexual-sublimation/)
- [build the wall](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/build-the-wall/)
- [isolation](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/isolation/)
- [self isolation](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/self-isolation/)
- [shyness](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/shyness/)
- [withdrawal](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/withdrawal/)
- [eros](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/eros/)
- [transference](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/transference/)
- [family estrangement](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/family-estrangement/)
- [Toxic Family](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/toxic-family/)
- [anorexia](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/anorexia/)
- [Orthorexia](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/orthorexia/)
- [purity obsession](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/purity-obsession/)
- [purity spiral](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/purity-spiral/)
- [Debting](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/debting/)
- [oniomania](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/oniomania/)
- [shopping](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/shopping/)
- [Spending](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/spending/)
- [Counter Transference](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/counter-transference/)
- [Precognitive Dreams](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/precognitive-dreams/)
- [Reconciling](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/reconciling/)
- [Chronic Lateness](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/chronic-lateness/)
- [procrastination](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/procrastination/)
- [Self-Acceptance](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/self-acceptance-2/)
- [Map Of The Soul: Persona](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/map-of-the-soul-persona/)
- [Persona](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/persona/)
- [ambivalence](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/ambivalence/)
- [avoidant](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/avoidant/)
- [stuckness](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/stuckness/)
- [Aggression](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/aggression/)
- [Bitch](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/bitch/)
- [Bitchiness](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/bitchiness/)
- [Call Out Culture](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/call-out-culture/)
- [Outrage culture](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/outrage-culture/)
- [Public Humiliation](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/public-humiliation/)
- [Shaming](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/shaming/)
- [Virtue Signaling](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/virtue-signaling/)
- [Dismemberment](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/dismemberment/)
- [Authenticity](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/authenticity/)
- [Self Development](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/self-development/)
- [Victimhood](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/victimhood/)
- [victimization](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/victimization/)
- [Catharsis](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/catharsis/)
- [Crying](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/crying/)
- [Relief](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/relief/)
- [Weeping](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/weeping/)
- [Heroes Journey](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/heroes-journey/)
- [Sacred journey](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/sacred-journey/)
- [Burnout](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/burnout/)
- [Stress](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/stress/)
- [Brainwashing](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/brainwashing/)
- [Cults](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/cults/)
- [deprogramming](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/deprogramming/)
- [attachment disorder](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/attachment-disorder/)
- [Early Abandonment](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/early-abandonment/)
- [Chronic Illness](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/chronic-illness/)
- [Fear of Death](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/fear-of-death/)
- [Sickness](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/sickness/)
- [Retirement](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/retirement/)
- [Inner Dialogue](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/inner-dialogue/)
- [Introjects](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/introjects/)
- [Self Talk](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/self-talk/)
- [childish](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/childish/)
- [Puella](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/puella/)
- [Puer](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/puer/)
- [passive aggressive](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/passive-aggressive/)
- [Borderline Personality Disorder](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/borderline-personality-disorder/)
- [BPD](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/bpd/)
- [Childhood Trauma](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/childhood-trauma/)
- [Mother Complex](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/mother-complex/)
- [complaining](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/complaining/)
- [griping](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/griping/)
- [infertility](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/infertility/)
- [Bereavement](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/bereavement/)
- [death](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/death/)
- [Grief](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/grief/)
- [stopping therapy](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/stopping-therapy/)
- [termination](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/termination/)
- [empathy](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/empathy/)
- [sympathy](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/sympathy/)
- [antidepressants](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/antidepressants/)
- [antipsychotic](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/antipsychotic/)
- [schizophrenia](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/schizophrenia/)
- [Spiritualism](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/spiritualism/)
- [Father Complex](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/father-complex/)
- [Conflict resolution](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/conflict-resolution/)
- [righteous](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/righteous/)
- [Saying Farewell](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/saying-farewell/)
- [Saying Goodby](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/saying-goodby/)
- [A Christmas Carol](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/a-christmas-carol/)
- [Charles Dickens](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/charles-dickens/)
- [Scrooge](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/scrooge/)
- [disclosure](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/disclosure/)
- [New Years Resolution](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/new-years-resolution/)
- [renewal](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/renewal/)
- [disasters](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/disasters/)
- [redemption](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/redemption/)
- [Projection](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/projection/)
- [acting out](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/acting-out/)
- [outrageous](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/outrageous/)
- [shocking behavior](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/shocking-behavior/)
- [shelter at home](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/shelter-at-home/)
- [ancestors](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/ancestors/)
- [family systems](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/family-systems/)
- [multigenerational trauma](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/multigenerational-trauma/)
- [crisis](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/crisis/)
- [alchemy](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/alchemy/)
- [depression](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/depression/)
- [Nigredo](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/nigredo/)
- [Authority](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/authority/)
- [social systems](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/social-systems/)
- [jungian astrology](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/jungian-astrology/)
- [teletherapy](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/teletherapy/)
- [ZOOM](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/zoom/)
- [flying saucer](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/flying-saucer/)
- [UFO](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/ufo/)
- [midlife crisis](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/midlife-crisis/)
- [covid](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/covid/)
- [lockdown](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/lockdown/)
- [stay at home](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/stay-at-home/)
- [riots](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/riots/)
- [Jungian Training](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/jungian-training/)
- [Black Lives Matter](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/black-lives-matter/)
- [George Floyd](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/george-floyd/)
- [I can breathe](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/i-can-breathe/)
- [James Hollis](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/james-hollis/)
- [resolving tension](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/resolving-tension/)
- [symbols](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/symbols/)
- [transcendent function](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/transcendent-function/)
- [dissociation](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/dissociation/)
- [Religious Instinct](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/religious-instinct/)
- [Religious Symbol](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/religious-symbol/)
- [Worship](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/worship/)
- [rolllo may](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/rolllo-may/)
- [joseph campbell](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/joseph-campbell/)
- [dogs](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/dogs/)
- [money](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/money/)
- [conspiracy](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/conspiracy/)
- [religious function of the psyche](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/religious-function-of-the-psyche/)
- [religion](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/religion/)
- [intuition](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/intuition/)
- [typology](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/typology/)
- [body](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/body/)
- [embodiment](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/embodiment/)
- [mind-body](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/mind-body/)
- [numinous](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/numinous/)
- [numinosity](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/numinosity/)
- [healing](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/healing/)
- [curiosity](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/curiosity/)
- [Faust](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/faust/)
- [Pandora](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/pandora/)
- [Bluebeard](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/bluebeard/)
- [neurosis](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/neurosis/)
- [Freud](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/freud/)
- [symptoms](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/symptoms/)
- [adaptation](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/adaptation/)
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- [horror movies](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/horror-movies/)
- [Marie Louise von FRanz](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/marie-louise-von-franz/)
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- [Sexuality and the Religious Imagination](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/sexuality-and-the-religious-imagination/)
- [QAnon](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/qanon/)
- [enmeshment](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/enmeshment/)
- [codependence](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/codependence/)
- [overcontrolling parents](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/overcontrolling-parents/)
- [Sonu Shamdasani](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/sonu-shamdasani/)
- [Philemon Foundation](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/philemon-foundation/)
- [Black Books](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/black-books/)
- [doubt](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/doubt/)
- [fantasy](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/fantasy/)
- [gaming](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/gaming/)
- [fantasizing](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/fantasizing/)
- [divine child](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/divine-child/)
- [female initiation](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/female-initiation/)
- [willpower](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/willpower/)
- [achievement](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/achievement/)
- [masculine psychology](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/masculine-psychology/)
- [archetyoes](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/archetyoes/)
- [Robert Moore](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/robert-moore/)
- [positive masculinity](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/positive-masculinity/)
- [Kwame Scruggs](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/kwame-scruggs/)
- [Men's Movement](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/mens-movement/)
- [feelings](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/feelings/)
- [truth](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/truth/)
- [confession](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/confession/)
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- [honesty](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/honesty/)
- [growing up](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/growing-up/)
- [Elliot Morgan](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/elliot-morgan/)
- [Humor and psychology](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/humor-and-psychology/)
- [Humor and Psychoanalysis](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/humor-and-psychoanalysis/)
- [rejection](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/rejection/)
- [exile](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/exile/)
- [alientation](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/alientation/)
- [immigrant](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/immigrant/)
- [exodus](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/exodus/)
- [Puddi Kullberg](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/puddi-kullberg/)
- [Introversion and Extraversion](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/introversion-and-extraversion/)
- [Tarot Deciphered](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/tarot-deciphered/)
- [Mark Winborne](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/mark-winborne/)
- [Ian McGilchrist](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/ian-mcgilchrist/)
- [The Master and His Emissary](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/the-master-and-his-emissary/)
- [Third Coast Percussion](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/third-coast-percussion/)
- [Sérgio Assad](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/sergio-assad/)
- [Clarice Assad](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/clarice-assad/)
- [David Skidmore](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/david-skidmore/)
- [Chicago Humanities Festival](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/chicago-humanities-festival/)
- [school dreams](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/school-dreams/)
- [classroom dreams](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/classroom-dreams/)
- [teacher dreams](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/teacher-dreams/)
- [what does my dream mean](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/what-does-my-dream-mean/)
- [dreams of god](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/dreams-of-god/)
- [Hansel and Gretel](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/hansel-and-gretel/)
- [Grimm's](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/grimms/)
- [parent dreams](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/parent-dreams-2/)
- [sea monters](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/sea-monters/)
- [dreams of home](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/dreams-of-home/)
- [snow dream](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/snow-dream/)
- [ice dream](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/ice-dream/)
- [blizzard dream](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/blizzard-dream/)
- [putin](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/putin/)
- [destruction](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/destruction/)
- [Donald Kalsched](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/donald-kalsched/)
- [snake](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/snake/)
- [Queen Elizabeth II](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/queen-elizabeth-ii/)
- [sewing](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/sewing/)
- [artsandcrafts](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/artsandcrafts/)
- [hobby](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/hobby/)
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- [grandmother](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/grandmother/)
- [ancestor](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/ancestor/)
- [needle](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/needle/)
- [thread](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/thread/)
- [self reliant](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/self-reliant/)
- [boardgames](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/boardgames/)
- [monopoly](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/monopoly/)
- [gametheory](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/gametheory/)
- [revolution](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/revolution/)
- [radical change](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/radical-change/)
- [tear it all down](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/tear-it-all-down/)
- [mythologism](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/mythologism/)
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- [psychotherapy](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/psychotherapy/)
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- [Stutz](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/stutz/)
- [Sixth Sense](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/sixth-sense/)
- [Movie Critic](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/movie-critic/)
- [psychopath](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/psychopath/)
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- [mythology](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/mythology/)
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- [mental illness](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/mental-illness/)
- [cognitive symptoms](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/cognitive-symptoms/)
- [psychotic symptoms](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/psychotic-symptoms/)
- [mental disorder](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/mental-disorder/)
- [brain chemistry](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/brain-chemistry/)
- [diagnosis and treatment](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/diagnosis-and-treatment/)
- [psychosocial treatment](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/psychosocial-treatment/)
- [psychopathology](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/psychopathology/)
- [Psychosocial perspective of marriage](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/psychosocial-perspective-of-marriage/)
- [Archetype of marriage](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/archetype-of-marriage/)
- [Psychological effects of marriage](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/psychological-effects-of-marriage/)
- [goddess Aphrodite](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/goddess-aphrodite/)
- [body dysmorphic disorder](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/body-dysmorphic-disorder/)
- [Aphrodite symbols](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/aphrodite-symbols/)
- [Aphrodite the goddess of love](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/aphrodite-the-goddess-of-love/)
- [invitations](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/invitations/)
- [setting boundaries](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/setting-boundaries/)
- [evaluating options](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/evaluating-options/)
- [sense of belonging](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/sense-of-belonging/)
- [ethical decision-making](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/ethical-decision-making/)
- [jungian philosophy](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/jungian-philosophy/)
- [shadow integration](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/shadow-integration/)
- [positive impact on the world](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/positive-impact-on-the-world/)
- [Bill W. and Jung](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/bill-w-and-jung/)
- [RefinersFire](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/refinersfire/)
- [GrowthThroughAdversity](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/growththroughadversity/)
- [OptimalFrustration](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/optimalfrustration/)
- [InnerTransformation](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/innertransformation/)
- [EmbraceTheFire](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/embracethefire-2/)
- [RisingToTheOccasion](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/risingtotheoccasion/)
- [BecomingTheBestYou](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/becomingthebestyou/)
- [eustress](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/eustress/)
- [Living with auditory hallucinations](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/living-with-auditory-hallucinations/)
- [marital compatibility](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/marital-compatibility/)
- [relationship siccess](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/relationship-siccess/)
- [animus projection](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/animus-projection/)
- [aanima projection](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/aanima-projection/)
- [finding a soulmate](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/finding-a-soulmate/)
- [FromHeartbreakToHealing](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/fromheartbreaktohealing/)
- [RememberingLove](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/rememberinglove/)
- [UnlovedParts](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/unlovedparts/)
- [AbandonedButNotAlone](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/abandonedbutnotalone/)
- [InnerOrphan](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/innerorphan/)
- [trueblood](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/trueblood/)
- [vampirediaries](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/vampirediaries/)
- [seduction](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/seduction/)
- [pied piper](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/pied-piper/)
- [interpreting fairytales](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/interpreting-fairytales/)
- [laughing at others](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/laughing-at-others/)
- [public shaming](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/public-shaming/)
- [mean girls](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/mean-girls/)
- [teasing behavior](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/teasing-behavior/)
- [define schadefreude](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/define-schadefreude/)
- [failure](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/failure/)
- [humiliation](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/humiliation/)
- [Jung's Home](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/jungs-home/)
- [Pan](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/pan/)
- [Greek God Pan](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/greek-god-pan/)
- [Pan Archetype](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/pan-archetype/)
- [Archetype of Pan](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/archetype-of-pan/)
- [Symbol of Pan](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/symbol-of-pan/)
- [repressed sexuality](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/repressed-sexuality/)
- [The Whale movie analysis](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/the-whale-movie-analysis/)
- [Charlie’s story in The Whale](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/charlies-story-in-the-whale/)
- [The Whale allegory and trauma](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/the-whale-allegory-and-trauma/)
- [The Whale and obesity stigma](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/the-whale-and-obesity-stigma/)
- [inflation](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/inflation/)
- [hair and identity](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/hair-and-identity/)
- [hair symbolism](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/hair-symbolism/)
- [hair in society](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/hair-in-society/)
- [archetype of hair](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/archetype-of-hair/)
- [medusa archetype](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/medusa-archetype/)
- [myth of medusa](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/myth-of-medusa/)
- [Jungian analysis of medusa](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/jungian-analysis-of-medusa/)
- [The Archive for Research in Archetypal Symbolism](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/the-archive-for-research-in-archetypal-symbolism/)
- [A.R.A.S.](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/a-r-a-s/)
- [archetypal image](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/archetypal-image/)
- [iconic images](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/iconic-images/)
- [fairytale](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/fairytale/)
- [puss in boots](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/puss-in-boots/)
- [fairytale analysis](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/fairytale-analysis/)
- [jungian analysis of Puss in Boots](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/jungian-analysis-of-puss-in-boots/)
- [machiavellianism](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/machiavellianism/)
- [risk and reward](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/risk-and-reward/)
- [gambler's psyche](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/gamblers-psyche/)
- [lady luck](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/lady-luck/)
- [Goddess Fortuna](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/goddess-fortuna/)
- [desire and risk](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/desire-and-risk/)
- [jungian analysis of The Ugly Duckling](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/jungian-analysis-of-the-ugly-duckling/)
- [Homelessness](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/homelessness/)
- [Affordable housing](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/affordable-housing/)
- [Structural inequalities](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/structural-inequalities/)
- [Internalized stigma](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/internalized-stigma/)
- [BeautyAndTheBeastAnalysis](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/beautyandthebeastanalysis/)
- [Feminist critique of fairytales](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/feminist-critique-of-fairytales/)
- [understanding guilt](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/understanding-guilt/)
- [morality](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/morality/)
- [JungianPerspectiveOnIAD](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/jungianperspectiveoniad/)
- [NavigatingHealthAnxiety](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/navigatinghealthanxiety/)
- [UnconsciousDynamicsInHealth](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/unconsciousdynamicsinhealth/)
- [SymbolicAttitudeExploration](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/symbolicattitudeexploration/)
- [UnderstandingIllnessAnxiety](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/understandingillnessanxiety/)
- [FearOfIllnessUnveiled](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/fearofillnessunveiled/)
- [DeconstructingHealthAnxiety](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/deconstructinghealthanxiety/)
- [PsycheAndHealth](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/psycheandhealth/)
- [JungOnHypochondriasis](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/jungonhypochondriasis/)
- [IADandMortality](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/iadandmortality/)
- [FacingHypochondriacFears](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/facinghypochondriacfears/)
- [HealthAnxietyInsights](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/healthanxietyinsights/)
- [anima mundi](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/anima-mundi/)
- [Jung's idea of anima mundi](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/jungs-idea-of-anima-mundi/)
- [religious abuse](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/religious-abuse/)
- [connie zweig](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/connie-zweig/)
- [ShadowWorkExplained](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/shadowworkexplained/)
- [JungianShadowTheory](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/jungianshadowtheory/)
- [PersonalGrowthThroughShadowWork](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/personalgrowththroughshadowwork/)
- [ExploringTheShadowSelf](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/exploringtheshadowself/)
- [MichaelLittman](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/michaellittman/)
- [ArtificialIntelligence](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/artificialintelligence/)
- [CollaborativeMachines](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/collaborativemachines/)
- [FearOfAI](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/fearofai/)
- [MachineLearning](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/machinelearning/)
- [imposter syndrome](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/imposter-syndrome/)
- [perfectionism](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/perfectionism/)
- [overworking](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/overworking/)
- [rejecting praise](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/rejecting-praise/)
- [FriendshipPsychology](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/friendshippsychology/)
- [NavigatingDisagreements](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/navigatingdisagreements/)
- [Bonding](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/bonding/)
- [Hagitude](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/hagitude/)
- [SharonBlackie](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/sharonblackie/)
- [feminist spirituality](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/feminist-spirituality/)
- [celtic mythology](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/celtic-mythology/)
- [loss of soul](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/loss-of-soul/)
- [trauma and soul](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/trauma-and-soul/)
- [medicine man](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/medicine-man/)
- [shamanism](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/shamanism/)
- [Aphrodite](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/aphrodite/)
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- [We Are The Light](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/we-are-the-light/)
- [Matthew Quick](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/matthew-quick/)
- [Jungian Interpretation of literature](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/jungian-interpretation-of-literature/)
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- [symbols of transformation](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/symbols-of-transformation/)
- [psychology of ritual](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/psychology-of-ritual/)
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- [Selkie](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/selkie/)
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- [Jungian interpretation of the Selkie](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/jungian-interpretation-of-the-selkie/)
- [defense mechanisms](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/defense-mechanisms/)
- [Jung about instincts](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/jung-about-instincts/)
- [inner democracy](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/inner-democracy/)
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- [The Psychodynamics of Social Networking](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/the-psychodynamics-of-social-networking/)
- [nightmare analysis](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/nightmare-analysis/)
- [nightmare](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/nightmare/)
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- [animism](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/animism/)
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- [Tolkien](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/tolkien/)
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- [six swans](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/six-swans/)
- [psychodermatology](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/psychodermatology/)
- [Nick August-Perna](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/nick-august-perna/)
- [Tell Them Your Love Me](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/tell-them-your-love-me/)
- [Anna Stubblefield](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/anna-stubblefield/)
- [Derrick Johnson](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/derrick-johnson/)
- [Murray Stein](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/murray-stein/)
- [Christiana Morgan](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/christiana-morgan/)
- [Demure](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/demure/)
- [Jean Campbell](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/jean-campbell/)
- [ego-syntonic](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/ego-syntonic/)
- [ego-dystonic](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/ego-dystonic/)
- [dragons](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/dragons/)
- [game of thrones](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/game-of-thrones/)
- [house of the dragon](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/house-of-the-dragon/)
- [dragonheart](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/dragonheart/)
- [the desolation of smaug](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/the-desolation-of-smaug/)
- [gnosticism](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/gnosticism/)
- [the gnostic jung](https://thisjungianlife.com/tag/the-gnostic-jung/)
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