TRIGGERED: Understanding & Transforming Complexes

This Jungian Life Podcast · Jan 23, 2020 · 1h 7m

DREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them!⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠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. A subject’s delayed or inappropriate reaction to a stimulus word such as tree or house indicated an unconscious disturbance that could then yield to understanding. Complexes are a fundamental…