Ancestors: Our Psychological Inheritance

This Jungian Life Podcast · Apr 2, 2020 · 1h 3m

DREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them!⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠The archetype of origins is in resurgence since the advent of ancestry-mapping programs. What are the psychological and symbolic meanings of ancestry? Identity is often strongly linked to ancestry in its ethnic and cultural aspects, and as the carrier of personal traits.

Genealogy gives rise to meaning-making narratives such as: I get my talent for storytelling from my Irish forebears. Jung knew that family complexes are handed down when he said, “Psychologically, the central point of a human personality is the place where the…