Dissociation: Encountering Our Inner Exile

This Jungian Life Podcast · Jul 2, 2020 · 52m

DREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them!⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠Jung discovered the psyche’s dissociative nature through his Word Association Test. Subjects would delay or make nonsensical responses to ordinary words associated with troublesome personal memories or traumas. Dissociation, our autonomous psychic “circuit breaker,” exists on a spectrum from ”spacing out” to disorders that interfere with life functioning. Psychotherapy could be considered the practice of healing dissociations, as treatment entails bringing banished contents into consciousness with feeling and understanding. Fairy…