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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
This Jungian Life PodcastEpisode 39 - Shrink Rap Radio
This week we sat down with Dave from Shrink Rap Radio to discuss dream analysis. We hope you enjoy and happy holidays!
This Jungian Life PodcastEpisode 38 - Holiday Madness
As the holiday season approaches, we examine the tidal pull of the ancient, archetypal power of the solstice season. Because of this underpinning, together…
This Jungian Life PodcastEpisode 37 - Narcissism
The myth of Narcissus constitutes the archetypal root of the character structure of narcissism. Aspects of narcissism run from the healthy developmental…
This Jungian Life PodcastEpisode 36 - Adulting: Leaving the Parental Path
What does it mean to separate from one’s parents and parental complexes—the attitudes and values that have been deeply instilled since infancy? How do we…
This Jungian Life PodcastEpisode 35 - Loneliness
Loneliness is a deeply human and universal experience. Lisa, Joseph and Deb examine it from multiple perspectives: as it may be experienced in young adulthood…
This Jungian Life PodcastEpisode 34 - The Scapegoat
The archetype of the scapegoat goes back to the ancient Hebrew ritual of using two goats to expiate the sins of the tribe. Sin, blame, and wrongness are also…
This Jungian Life PodcastEpisode 33 - Archetypal Dynamics of Gender Transformation
Lisa, Joseph, and Deb circumambulate the difficult issue of gender reassignment. They discuss the significance of teen girls wishing to transition and the…
This Jungian Life PodcastEpisode 32 - Slobs
What happens when one is held captive by the mud of messiness? We try to understand sloppiness as a defense against overwhelming emotions, ongoing enmeshment…
This Jungian Life PodcastEpisode 31 - Food Addiction
Compulsive eating is a complicated psychological and biological problem. Food addiction can be a way of defending against unmet needs by displacing emotional…
This Jungian Life PodcastEpisode 30 - Escaping Literalism
We consider literalism as a normal state in childhood; children’s literalism can be funny and charming. We grow first into the ability to understand metaphor…
This Jungian Life PodcastEpisode 29 - ENVY & JEALOUSY: Hobgoblins in Relationships
This podcast relates envy and jealousy to early developmental dynamics, with envy related to the dyad of mother-and-baby and jealousy arriving a bit later…
This Jungian Life PodcastEpisode 28 - Boredom
Boredom is not depression or dissociation, sadness or loneliness…but what is it? We consider boredom from various perspectives: lack of access to one’s inner…
This Jungian Life PodcastEpisode 27 - Dream Animals
In this podcast, we focus on animals as symbols of instincts that have often been repressed in order to conform to cultural norms. When some aspect of our…
This Jungian Life PodcastEpisode 26 - Betrayal
The experience of betrayal is painful, confusing, and damaging to one’s basic sense of self and reality. The betrayer is often seized by feelings that demand…
This Jungian Life PodcastEpisode 25 - The Psychology of Divination: a depth approach
Divinatory systems have been used for thousands of years as a source of help and direction to people wishing to resolve situations of personal uncertainty…
This Jungian Life PodcastEpisode 24 - Motherhood as a Journey of Individuation
The experience of motherhood evokes powerful feelings, ranging from joy and bonding to anger and rejection. If we can develop a conscious relationship with…
This Jungian Life PodcastEpisode 23 - Indecision
Many people have difficulty making decisions, whether large or small. Among other factors, the psychology behind the fear of making a decision can be related…
This Jungian Life PodcastEpisode 22 - Pressure to Conform and Differentiation
The pressure to conform to familial and cultural values provides guidelines for each new generation – and can also stifle the uniqueness necessary not only to…
This Jungian Life PodcastEpisode 21 -- Living with a Crazy Parent
Living with a parent who is seriously impaired can be traumatic and have lasting consequences. Fortunately, resources for healing and resilience are also…
This Jungian Life PodcastEpisode 20 -- Mother-in-Law
The mother-in-law is not only the subject of many a joke but the subject of fairy tale and myth. Conflict between the older and younger woman lies in the…
This Jungian Life PodcastEpisode 19 -- Sin and Transgression
In archery, sin refers to missing the mark, whereas transgression involves violation of a cultural boundary. But missing the mark or crossing a line can have…
This Jungian Life PodcastEpisode 18 -- Creative Depression
Creative depression demands that we suffer a journey into the deep wells of the psyche in quest of new life. It differs from other kinds of depression in how…
This Jungian Life PodcastEpisode 17 -- Lying
Lying, hiding and sneaking are examples of trickster behavior, discussed as they occur in political and personal spheres. When is this behavior in service to…
This Jungian Life PodcastEpisode 16 -- The Archetype of the Gun
As three analysts, we explore the archetype of “the gun” from a Jungian psychological view and seek to understand it’s influence in the collective psyche of…
This Jungian Life PodcastEpisode 15 -- Toxic Masculinity
How can we understand the superficial label assigned to masculine behavior in today’s meme-driven style of discourse? The Dream: I am walking on what seems to…
This Jungian Life PodcastDreams
Jung was one of the primary theorists who added to our understanding of the psychological significance of dreams, and working with dreams is often a central…
This Jungian Life PodcastActive Imagination
Jung pioneered the technique of active imagination, a process by which the ego engages with imagery and content generated by the unconscious. Active…
This Jungian Life PodcastAnxiety
“We don't so much solve our problems as we outgrow them. We add capacities and experiences that eventually make us bigger than the problems.” CG Jung Anxiety…
This Jungian Life PodcastFairy Tales
Why do Jungians care about fairy tales? What is their relevance in analysis? How do they differ from myths, and why do they matter to us still? Find out what…
This Jungian Life PodcastSYNCHRONICITY: the mysterious web of meaningful coincidences
Synchronicity is a concept that has fascinated thinkers across disciplines for decades, and few have delved as deeply into its nature and implications as the…
This Jungian Life PodcastVampires
Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Twilight, True Blood. Vampires are perennial stars in popular entertainment. How can we understand vampires psychologically, and what…
This Jungian Life PodcastChoosing a Life Partner
Sex? Money? Passion? Intellectual companionship? Kids? What are factors to consider when choosing a life partner? Should you be practical, or follow your…
This Jungian Life PodcastHearing Voices
The standard psychiatric understanding of auditory hallucinations is that they are a symptom of serious mental illness, and ought to be treated with…
This Jungian Life PodcastAlcoholism
Is alcohol dependence a misplaced expression of a spiritual thirst, or a collapse into a regressed and infantile state? We discuss Jung's involvement in the…
This Jungian Life PodcastShame
What’s the difference between shaming, being ashamed, and being shamed? Which of these is most alive in the culture right now? Why do we feel existential…
This Jungian Life PodcastEmotional Affairs
We take a look at emotional affairs and imaginal affairs. Both are more common than you might think and can lead us into an experience of our own depths…
This Jungian Life PodcastTHE SHAPE OF WATER: is it a new fairytale?
The Shape of Water recently won the Academy Award for best film, captivating audiences with its dream-like images of other-worldly love. What can a…
This Jungian Life PodcastHOOKUPS: are they freeing or defensive?
Are hookups a joyous celebration of unbridled sexual expression? A defense against intimacy? All of the above? Here's the dream we analyze: "I am at a family…