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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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Projection: When the Dart Lands
DREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them!The power of projections to hit psychic targets serves both defensive and integrative functions…
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Climate Change: How Can We Welcome Upsetting Truths?
DREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them! Recent severe environmental events have made facing climate change urgent. We talk with Jeffrey…
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A Psychology of Redemption
DREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them! As we grow, unconscious unity becomes differentiated into feeling, ego, personality and desire…
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Polyamory: Navigating the Complexities of the Heart
DREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them! Polyamory, a current phenomenon, endorses open relationships with multiple lovers. The term…
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TRIGGERED: Understanding & Transforming Complexes
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…
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Finding Resilience as We Face New Disasters
DREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them! Although there have been a number of recent destructive environmental events, the duration and…
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Dynamics of Change & Renewal
DREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them! A new year often symbolizes a new beginning, with resolutions to make specific lifestyle changes…
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Trickster
DREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them! The archetype of the trickster shows up in ambiguity, duplicity, contradiction and paradox…
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Secrets
DREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them! Although a secret is usually considered information deliberately kept from others, we also keep…
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Scrooge on the Couch: How the Numinous Transforms
DREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them! Something's going on in Scrooges soul...and it's tired of waiting for an invitation. Charles…
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Sibling Complexes
DREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them!Siblings are embedded in the human psyche as they are in life. Even if one lacks siblings…
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Partings & Farewells
DREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them! Partings connote a finality of farewell that signifies completion of a relationship. We may…
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The Racial Complex with Dr. Fanny Brewster
DREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them! Dr. Fanny Brewster, Jungian Analyst, colleague and friend, joins This Jungian Life to discuss…
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Splitting, Polarization & Conflict
DREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them! It happens all the time: people and problems split into opposing camps, whether the conflict…
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Healing the Negative Father Complex
DREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them! The archetype of the father is associated with gods, kingship, and other images of authority…
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Anger
DREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them! Anger is a core human emotion. Newborns express instinctual cries of protest, and many a…
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Ghostly Encounters
DREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them! People have reported experiences with ghosts from antiquity; Jung documented his encounters…
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Medicating Psyche
DREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them! The question of whether, when, and what psychoactive medications may be helpful is both big and…
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Empathy
DREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them! Empathy, the ability to feel into the suffering of another, is an intrinsic part of being…
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When Therapy Ends
DREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them! A planned, collaborative termination is the ideal way to bring a depth-oriented therapeutic…
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Grief & Bereavement
DREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them! The death of a loved one is a loss that is part of the human condition and is universal. The…
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INFERTILITY: When the Mother Archetype Fails to Constellate
DREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them! Medical technology has given the problem of fertility a scientific veneer. Our Promethean…
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Chronic Complaining
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…
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Animus & Anima
DREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them! Although these Jungian concepts have become familiar psychological terminology, they remain…
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Negative Mother Complex: When Our Painful Childhood Owns Us
DREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them! As the mother is the generator of life and usual primary attachment figure, the mother…
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Borderline Personality Disorder
DREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them! While psychiatric diagnostic labels often reify the complexities of psychological dynamics, they…
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Procrastination
DREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them! We all procrastinate. Tasks from making a doctor’s appointment to preparing taxes to doing the…
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Puer – Puella: Trapped in the Inner Child
DREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them! If the passage into fullsome adulthood is avoided, a person can be trapped in the world of…
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Self-Talk
DREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them! Although only some of us talk aloud to ourselves, all of us have inner voices, even if we are…
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Dating
DREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them! We define dating as the quest for serious partnership or ongoing companionship. Today’s dating…
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Retirement
DREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them!The life transition we call retirement mandates a major readjustment in how time, energy and…
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Chronic Illness
DREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them! Chronic illnesses affect many, creating diminishment of physical ability and energy for life…
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Early Abandonment
DREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them! Experiences of physical abandonment are depicted in stories old and new as ways of out-picturing…
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Cults
DREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them! Although cults occasionally make the headlines through tragedy or scandal, the defining features…
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Burnout
DREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them! Burnout is a relatively new term for job-related distress or an ongoing life situation that is…
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Voyages
DREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them! Although the word voyage connotes a sea journey, this episode considers a voyage to be an…
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Tears
DREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them! We all shed tears. We cry when we are sad, but also when we are glad, surprised by beauty, love…
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Episode 62 - The Psychology of a Victim
We can experience powerful feelings of empathy for those who are victims of trauma in all its heartbreaking dimensions. It is difficult even to consider a…
This Jungian Life PodcastEpisode 61 - Individuation
Individuation, the central concept of Jung’s psychology, is the foundational image and aspiration of Jungian psychoanalysis – and life. It is the theme of many…
This Jungian Life PodcastEpisode 60 - Psychological Dismemberment: Why We Can’t Stay Connected
Images of physical dismemberment are often used in fairy tales, dreams and art to depict psychological fragmentation, numbing and other forms of disconnection…
This Jungian Life PodcastEpisode 59 - Offense and Outrage
Anything that disappears from your psychological inventory is apt to turn up in the guise of a hostile neighbor, who will inevitably arouse your anger and make…
This Jungian Life PodcastEpisode 58 - The Art & Practice of B*tchiness
In this episode, the archetype of the bitch is explored using fairy tales, mythology, and popular culture to shed light on this colloquial, pejorative term…
This Jungian Life PodcastEpisode 57 - Ambivalence
Having mixed feelings, or strongly opposing feelings is a normal occurrence in human life. We can find ourselves in a quandary about big decisions, upcoming…
This Jungian Life PodcastEpisode 56 - Persona
This episode, inspired by the new album by the Korean band BTS, explains and amplifies the Jungian concept of the persona. Like the cornea of the eye, persona…
This Jungian Life PodcastEpisode 55 - Identifying & Integrating the Personal Shadow
The personal shadow is created as a normal part of development, as we learn what behaviors, values and feelings are not acceptable in our family, school, or…
This Jungian Life PodcastEpisode 54 - Chronic Lateness
People who are chronically late create relational problems with others and generate negative consequences for themselves, from embarrassment and guilt to loss…
This Jungian Life PodcastEpisode 53 - Should I Stay or Should I Go?
One of the issues clients bring into the therapeutic consulting room is dissatisfaction with the state of their marriage or partnership. Although this dilemma…
This Jungian Life PodcastEpisode 52 - Precognitive Dreams
Listeners contributed examples of precognitive dreams for this episode. Lisa, Joseph, and Deb discuss theoretical concepts and listener dreams from various…
This Jungian Life PodcastEpisode 51 - What is Your Therapist Thinking?
Lisa, Joseph, and Deb explore and explain what the analytic process is like for them as they work with clients. Deb describes her interactions with clients…
This Jungian Life PodcastEpisode 50 - Shopping
Everyone shops—we have access to an astonishing choice of products. Internet shopping has multiplied our range of options beyond what nearby retail stores may…
This Jungian Life PodcastEpisode 49 - Dietary Over-regulation and the Pursuit of Purity
Preoccupation and obsession with food–a condition called orthorexia--can take the form of the quest for health and purity, with rigid rules about food…
This Jungian Life PodcastEpisode 48 - Estrangement
Estrangement from members of one’s family and others takes place far more often than seems commonly acknowledged. Estrangement involves psychologically…
This Jungian Life PodcastEpisode 47 - Falling in Love with your Analyst
As Jung well knew, eros – love – is an essential part of the analytic process. In Vol. 16 of his Collected Works Jung used alchemical images of a king and…
This Jungian Life PodcastEpisode 46 - Hiding
Many a fairy tale features hiding as a strategic defense. Jack, of beanstalk fame, hides from the giant in order to survive and discover his treasure. We often…
This Jungian Life PodcastEpisode 45 - The Wall
With “The Wall” very much in the forefront of national discussion, Deb, Lisa and Joseph reflect on the archetype of walls. Some may be stonewalls simply…
This Jungian Life PodcastEpisode 44 - The Archetypal Power of Football
Football is a uniquely American sport with millions of fans, heroic teams, and stadiums reminiscent of colosseums. As the Super Bowl approaches – television’s…
This Jungian Life PodcastEpisode 43 - Heartbreak
Heartbreak is more primal, more pervasive, and more related to one’s sense of self than sadness. Our hearts can break over the death of a dearly loved other…
This Jungian Life PodcastEpisode 42 - Over Apologizing
What is “I’m sorry” as a habitual response really about? There’s the preemptive apology that is offered to forestall possible criticism, the apology that…
This Jungian Life PodcastEpisode 41 - Regret
Along with a our guest podcast Brazilian Jungian analyst Leticia Capriotti, we explored the psychological underpinnings of regret. We considered that sometimes…
This Jungian Life PodcastEpisode 40 - What's Unique about Jungian Analysis?
How is Jungian analysis different from other psychotherapies? What are its major components and distinguishing features? And what makes it effective? Lisa…