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REUNIONS: Is there value in remembering our younger selves?
Deb and Joe are Jungian Analysts, authors, training analysts, and co-creators of This Jungian Life Podcast. [Lisa was away lecturing this week.]
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2 years, 3 months ago
Donald Kalsched – Can running our minds like a democracy save us?
Don Kalsched is a Jungian Analyst, an expert on treating trauma, author of two books, The Inner World of Trauma and Trauma and the Soul.
Jung discover…
2 years, 3 months ago
Why Do We Push People Away? Understanding our Defenses
Defense mechanisms function as unconscious psychological strategies we deploy to navigate reality and sustain a consistent self-image. They act as a …
2 years, 3 months ago
SELKIE FOLKLORE: Should we force soul to serve us?
The Selkie swims ashore at night, sheds her seal skin, hides it, and delights in her human form. In Celtic lore, she is the wild feminine soul, a cr…
2 years, 3 months ago
INITIATIONS: universal processes that spark transformation
The archetype of Initiation is primordial, and its force guides our transformative transitions. For Jung, this change reshapes spiritual, emotional, …
2 years, 3 months ago
The Barbie Movie: Can it Dismantle an American Myth?
[Spoiler Alert.]
In the opening scene of the Barbie movie, listless little girls dressed as drab Dust Bowl mothers play at ironing as they tend plast…
2 years, 4 months ago
From SHAMANISM to JUNG: Understanding '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 o…
2 years, 4 months ago
HAGITUDE: Sharon Blackie on the power of aging
Sharon Blackie calls us to the ancient archetype of the Hag as a figure of unapologetic emergence from cultural pressures that lock us into outworn r…
2 years, 4 months ago
THREE VOICES, ONE SONG: Lessons in Friendship
The essence of friendship is visible in its linguistic root: ‘to love.’ Cicero wrote, “Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubli…
2 years, 4 months ago
You're Not A Fraud: Overcoming 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 demonst…
2 years, 5 months ago