How to Work with Denial: A Jungian Guide to Facing Reality

This Jungian Life Podcast · Dec 11, 2025 · 1h 15m · transcript

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People often mistake denial for stubbornness, self-deception, or moral failure. Denial is actually a primal psychological defense that attempts to regulate which aspects of reality are permitted to reach awareness. Today, we explore how denial operates within Psyche, why it activates powerfully in response to traumatic…