Chronic Complaining

This Jungian Life Podcast · Sep 19, 2019 · 1h 7m

DREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them!⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠Complaining is universal, perhaps, like gossiping, one of the first uses to which developed language was put. Overall, a complaint can refer to a perceived legal injustice, medical symptom, or other personally painful matter. The chronic complainer feels a lack of agency, and implicitly pleads for emotional support and/or effective action from another. A complaint may therefore range from a request for empathic engagement to an effort to assign responsibility to others. Listeners have a felt sense of a complaint’s legitimacy; we…