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This Jungian Life Podcast
Join us—Lisa, Deb, and Joseph—for sometimes irreverent but potentially life-changing conversations. Every Thursday, we explore culture, relationships, and depth psychology through the lens of Carl Jung. We devote a segment of each episode to analyzing a listener’s dream.
Episodes
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The Phoenix: Life’s Transformative Fires
The splendid-feathered phoenix lives for hundreds of years builds its own funeral pyre, sets it on fire, and rises from the ashes after three days. The phoenix…
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Archetype of the Fool
The fool in various guises has appeared since ancient times. The court jester seduces through comedy, song, and story. The dummling son of fairy tales wins the…
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Bonus Episode - MILKMAID REVELATIONS: JUNG’S EROTIC STAMP COLLECTION
Swiss Jungian scholar Jager Schmallzenburger has recently released news of the discovery of Jung’s erotic stamp collection. Found tucked into the wall behind a…
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Exile & Alienation
not chosen but is imposed and unwanted: a relational break-up, job lay-off, or deportation. Exile can affect the human spirit so powerfully that the ancient…
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A Comedian Walks into a Jungian Podcast…
Elliott Morgan, comedian and PhD candidate in depth psychology at Pacifica Graduate Institute, joins us to explore humor and psyche. Elliott grew up a…
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Belonging: The Search for Home
Horses herd, birds flock, whales pod, and people tribe. The need to belong is as intrinsic to human nature as the need for food, touch, clothing and shelter…
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Chronic Anger: Trapped in Resentment
Like fire in a wood-burning stove, resentment burns long and hot: bitterness, frustration, and hostility. The fires of resentment are lit when we feel needy…
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Navigating Young Adulthood: Risks & Rewards
The twenties are a period of emerging adulthood, a time to engage in the maturational tasks of finding one’s place in the wider world and forming intimate…
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Truth Telling: Revelations & Realities
Subjective truths yield multiple realities—political and religious truths famously differ. Objective truths rely on independent realities—two plus two must…
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Facing Your Feelings: Avoidance or Encounter?
While we welcome “good” feelings, we often try to banish “bad” ones like sadness, fear, vulnerability and shame. We may deny them by trying to “think…
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Self-Loathing: What’s Gnawing on Your Bones?
The judgmental inner voice has volume, speed, pitch and range. It may appear as a perfectionistic critic, demanding taskmaster, or abusive bully. It also seeps…
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MYTH AS MEDICINE: An Interview with Kwame Scruggs, PhD
Kwame Scruggs inspires men through mythology, drumming and connection to community and culture. As a young man Kwame discovered his inner fire through…
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The Archetype of the Good King
The king is figured prominently in myth, religion, and fairy tale. This compelling archetypal image has roots in our earliest human beginnings, when the king…
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Willpower: Choice, Energy & the Power to Achieve
The ability to choose and exercise will is a defining characteristic of humans. Only humans have enough energy available to consciousness to escape the rule of…
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Fierce Female Initiations: Claiming Authority & Selfhood Through Trials
Mythological Paths to Personal Potential Myths and fairy tales depict women’s initiation into authority and adulthood. Hades abducted Kore (maiden) into the…
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Scrooge on the Couch: How the Numinous Transforms
Something's going on in Scrooge's soul...and it's tired of waiting for an invitation. Charles Dickens’ novella, A Christmas Carol, vividly portrays the journey…
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The Archetype of the Divine Child: Light Reborn
Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be unto all people. Luke 2:10 The divine child appears when least expected, new…
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FANTASY: Do We Have Fantasies or Do They Have Us?
Is fantasizing helpful or harmful? Fantasy is the process of engagement with unconscious processes, from the depths of the mythic unconscious to the…
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Doubt: Facing Life’s Unknowns
Doubt disturbs us. Unlike the more defined polarities of ambivalence, doubt is pervasive, muddy, and ranges from crippling to constructive. We may doubt our…
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Visionary Imagination: Jung’s Private Journals
We welcome Sonu Shamdasani, PhD, scholar and historian of depth psychology and Jung’s opus. His research and expertise were instrumental in bringing Jung’s Red…
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Spider Parents: Finding Freedom from Dependence
The spider is a symbol of generative and destructive capabilities. As creator, spider spins the sustaining web of life. As predator, spider’s sticky web is an…
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QAnon: Ancient Lies & Sexual Slanders
QAnon is a recent iteration of a historical pattern: Romans persecuted Christians, Christians libeled Jews, and citizenries hunted witches. When existing…
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REVIVING OUR CAPACITY TO FEEL: The Core of Jung’s Legacy
Marie-Louise von Franz, Jung’s close collaborator, capped her public work in a 1986 lecture that summarized Jung’s signal contributions to understanding the…
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Horror: Why Can’t We Look Away?
The hair on the back of our necks bristles in response to the horrors of the uncanny. Transfixed by shock, awe, dread and fascination, we can neither dare the…
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When Despair Prevails: Facing Suicidal Darkness
DREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them! There are few more painful thoughts or frightening events than suicide, a phenomenon unique…
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Adaptation: Meeting Life’s Demands
DREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them! The world is the canvas on which we paint our lives. Through this lifelong work, we express…
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Neurosis: Befriending Our Broken Places
DREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them! Although neurosis is no longer a clinical diagnosis, it is often used to describe anxious…
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Curiosity: The Inner Engine of Change
DREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them! We celebrate curiosity’s role in discovery, and regret its potential for damage. Mature…
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Sacred Symptoms: How the Numinous Heals
DREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them!Jung states “the main interest of my work is not concerned with the treatment of neurosis but…
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At Home in Our Bodies: Incarnation & Individuation
DREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them! Jung teaches that soul and spirit have a home in a living body, the font of psyche’s images…
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Intuition: Non-Rational Knowing
DREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them! We all have intuitive experiences, from an occasional hunch to powerful gut feelings…
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Seeking Certainty: The Seduction of Conspiracy Theories
DREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them!In times of uncertainty truth is hard to discern, collective cohesion frays, and social…
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The Money Complex: Incarnating Our Dreams
DREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them! Money reflects our shadows and strengths as much as our bank accounts. Like Hermes, money…
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The Provisional Life: Redeeming the Real
DREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them! The provisional life might be defined as a vague malaise: current relationships, work, and…
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Pets: A Lived Relationship with Soul
DREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them!When far from life in the wild, relationships with animals are often through pets. We find…
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Every Hero’s Journey
DREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them!The hero’s journey has been the stuff of story from earliest times. Today’s popular heroes…
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COVERED: An Archetypal Take on the COVID Mask
DREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them! Masks are the symbol of COVID life, and they have archetypal roots as old as humankind. We ward…
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Not Alone: Finding the Inner Companion
DREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them! When you’re down, and in trouble, and you need some loving care... You just call out my name…
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Creativity: Drawing from the Inner Well
DREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them!The root of create, “to bring something into being out of nothing,” echoes divine creation. Ideas…
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The Religious Attitude: What Do You Worship?
DREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them!The religious instinct is as basic as the need for food or shelter. Psyche seeks and selects a…
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Dissociation: Encountering Our Inner Exile
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…
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The Transcendent Function: Getting Unstuck
DREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them!The transcendent function comes in all sizes, from “aha” moments to epiphanies. A new orientation…
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Finding Resilience: A Conversation with Jim Hollis
DREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them!James Hollis, noted Jungian scholar, teacher and author, joined us to discuss resilience. His new…
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We Can’t Breathe: Facing the Pain of Racism
DREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them!Racial injustice takes one’s breath away. It reaches back to the psychic asphyxiations of the…
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On Becoming a Jungian Analyst
DREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them!Many listeners have expressed interest in Jungian analytic training. We welcome those inquiries…
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Riots: When the Collective Catches Fire
DREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them!How can we understand the psychological wild fire of rioting? Jung, who lived through two world…
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Lockdown: Decoding the Covid Complex
DREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them!Oppressed, repressed and regressed, the forced restrictions of the Covid Complex have us in its…
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Midlife Crisis: Renewal or Stagnation
DREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them!Jung was particularly interested in the second half of life, perhaps because after his own…
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Jung, UFOs & Aliens: The Truth is Out There
DREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them! The Pentagon recently released a film of a UFO made by Navy pilots. Although such credible…
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ZOOMing In: Is Psyche Alive Online?
DREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them! We have moved our lives online. But can we experience authentic human connection through virtual…
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Jung & Astrology: Cosmos & Character
DREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them!Astrology is a 4000-year-old discipline rooted in the mystery of man’s relationship to the…
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Authority: Who’s in Charge Around Here?
DREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them! The dictionary defines authority as the power to “influence or command thought, opinion or…
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Nigredo: Finding Light in Our Darkness
DREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them!The alchemical term nigredo means black or blackening, and is associated with decomposition and…
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When Everything Changes: Is There Opportunity in Crisis?
DREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them! In the Chinese language, the two characters representing crisis are danger and opportunity. Can…
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Ancestors: Our Psychological Inheritance
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…
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Therapist Disclosures: Withholding or Overloading?
DREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them! Should an analyst share personal information with clients? Freud believed that the analyst…
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Facing the Fear of Coronavirus: Finding a Grounding Attitude
DREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them! The word plague derives from the Latin plangere, “to strike the breast as if in lamentation.”…
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Destiny: Are We Fated to Have One?
DREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them!Questions about fate and destiny have existed for millennia. Fate often refers to unalterable…
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Pessimism: Was Eeyore Right?
DREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them! “Could be worse. Not sure how, but it could be.” For Eeyore, only perverse possibilities lie…
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Outrageous! What Drives Shocking Behaviors?
DREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them!We can all cite examples of behaviors that defy reason and meaning. How can we understand X…