This Jungian Life Podcast
Episodes
Every Hero’s Journey
06 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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. Tod...
COVERED: An Archetypal Take on the COVID Mask
30 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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 a...
Not Alone: Finding the Inner Companion
23 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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 jus...
Creativity: Drawing from the Inner Well
16 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
DREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them!The root of create, “to bring something into being out of nothing,” echo...
The Religious Attitude: What Do You Worship?
09 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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 s...
Dissociation: Encountering Our Inner Exile
02 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
DREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them! Jung discovered the psyche’s dissociative nature through his Word Associa...
The Transcendent Function: Getting Unstuck
25 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
DREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them!The transcendent function comes in all sizes, from “aha” moments to epip...
Finding Resilience: A Conversation with Jim Hollis
18 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
DREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them!James Hollis, noted Jungian scholar, teacher and author, joined us to discus...
We Can’t Breathe: Facing the Pain of Racism
11 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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 a...
On Becoming a Jungian Analyst
08 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
DREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them!Many listeners have expressed interest in Jungian analytic training. We welc...
Riots: When the Collective Catches Fire
04 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
DREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them!How can we understand the psychological wild fire of rioting? Jung, who live...
Lockdown: Decoding the Covid Complex
28 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
DREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them!Oppressed, repressed and regressed, the forced restrictions of the Covid Com...
Midlife Crisis: Renewal or Stagnation
21 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
DREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them!Jung was particularly interested in the second half of life, perhaps because...
Jung, UFOs & Aliens: The Truth is Out There
14 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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. Althoug...
ZOOMing In: Is Psyche Alive Online?
07 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
DREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them! We have moved our lives online. But can we experience authentic human conne...
Jung & Astrology: Cosmos & Character
30 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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 rel...
Authority: Who’s in Charge Around Here?
23 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
DREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them! The dictionary defines authority as the power to “influence or command th...
Nigredo: Finding Light in Our Darkness
16 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
DREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them!The alchemical term nigredo means black or blackening, and is associated w...
When Everything Changes: Is There Opportunity in Crisis?
09 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
DREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them! In the Chinese language, the two characters representing crisis are dang...
Ancestors: Our Psychological Inheritance
02 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
DREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them!The archetype of origins is in resurgence since the advent of ancestry-mappi...
Therapist Disclosures: Withholding or Overloading?
26 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
DREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them! Should an analyst share personal information with clients? Freud believed t...
Facing the Fear of Coronavirus: Finding a Grounding Attitude
19 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
DREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them! The word plague derives from the Latin plangere, “to strike the breas...
Destiny: Are We Fated to Have One?
12 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
DREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them!Questions about fate and destiny have existed for millennia. Fate often refe...
Pessimism: Was Eeyore Right?
05 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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 perve...
Outrageous! What Drives Shocking Behaviors?
27 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Projection: When the Dart Lands
20 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
DREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them!The power of projections to hit psychic targets serves both defensive and in...
Climate Change: How Can We Welcome Upsetting Truths?
13 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
DREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them! Recent severe environmental events have made facing climate change urgent. ...
A Psychology of Redemption
06 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
DREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them! As we grow, unconscious unity becomes differentiated into feeling, ego, per...
Polyamory: Navigating the Complexities of the Heart
30 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
DREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them! Polyamory, a current phenomenon, endorses open relationships with multiple ...
TRIGGERED: Understanding & Transforming Complexes
23 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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 f...
Finding Resilience as We Face New Disasters
16 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
DREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them! Although there have been a number of recent destructive environmental event...
Dynamics of Change & Renewal
09 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
DREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them! A new year often symbolizes a new beginning, with resolutions to make speci...
Trickster
02 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
DREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them! The archetype of the trickster shows up in ambiguity, duplicity, contrad...
Secrets
26 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
DREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them! Although a secret is usually considered information deliberately kept fr...
Scrooge on the Couch: How the Numinous Transforms
19 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
DREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them!Something's going on in Scrooges soul...and it's tired of wait...
Sibling Complexes
12 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Partings & Farewells
05 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
DREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them! Partings connote a finality of farewell that signifies completion of ...
The Racial Complex with Dr. Fanny Brewster
28 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
DREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them! Dr. Fanny Brewster, Jungian Analyst, colleague and friend, joins This Ju...
Splitting, Polarization & Conflict
21 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
DREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them! It happens all the time: people and problems split into opposing camp...
Healing the Negative Father Complex
14 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
DREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them! The archetype of the father is associated with gods, kingship, and ot...
Anger
07 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
DREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them! Anger is a core human emotion. Newborns express instinctual cries of pro...
Ghostly Encounters
31 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
DREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them! People have reported experiences with ghosts from antiquity; Jung docume...
Medicating Psyche
24 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
DREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them! The question of whether, when, and what psychoactive medications may be ...
Empathy
17 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
DREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them! Empathy, the ability to feel into the suffering of another, is an intrin...
When Therapy Ends
10 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
DREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them! A planned, collaborative termination is the ideal way to bring a dept...
Grief & Bereavement
03 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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 an...
INFERTILITY: When the Mother Archetype Fails to Constellate
26 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
DREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them!Medical technology has given the problem of fertility a scientific veneer. O...
Chronic Complaining
19 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
DREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them! Complaining is universal, perhaps, like gossiping, one of the first uses to...
Animus & Anima
12 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
DREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them! Although these Jungian concepts have become familiar psychological terminol...
Negative Mother Complex: When Our Painful Childhood Owns Us
05 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
DREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them! As the mother is the generator of life and usual primary attachment f...
Borderline Personality Disorder
29 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
DREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them! While psychiatric diagnostic labels often reify the complexities of psychol...
Procrastination
22 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
DREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them! We all procrastinate. Tasks from making a doctor’s appointment to prepari...
Puer – Puella: Trapped in the Inner Child
15 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Self-Talk
08 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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 inne...
Dating
01 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
DREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them! We define dating as the quest for serious partnership or ongoing companions...
Retirement
25 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
DREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them!The life transition we call retirement mandates a major readjustment i...
Chronic Illness
18 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
DREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them! Chronic illnesses affect many, creating diminishment of physical ability a...
Early Abandonment
11 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
DREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them! Experiences of physical abandonment are depicted in stories old and new as ...
Cults
04 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
DREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them! Although cults occasionally make the headlines through tragedy or scandal, ...
Burnout
27 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
DREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them! Burnout is a relatively new term for job-related distress or an ongoi...
Voyages
20 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
DREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them! Although the word voyage connotes a sea journey, this episode conside...
Tears
13 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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, surpr...
Episode 62 - The Psychology of a Victim
06 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
We can experience powerful feelings of empathy for those who are victims of trauma in all its heartbreaking dimensions. It is difficult even to consid...
Episode 61 - Individuation
30 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Individuation, the central concept of Jung’s psychology, is the foundational image and aspiration of Jungian psychoanalysis – and life. It is the ...
Episode 60 - Psychological Dismemberment: Why We Can’t Stay Connected
23 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Images of physical dismemberment are often used in fairy tales, dreams and art to depict psychological fragmentation, numbing and other forms of disco...
Episode 59 - Offense and Outrage
16 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Episode 58 - The Art & Practice of B*tchiness
09 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, the archetype of the bitch is explored using fairy tales, mythology, and popular culture to shed light on this colloquial, pejorative...
Episode 57 - Ambivalence
02 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Having mixed feelings, or strongly opposing feelings is a normal occurrence in human life. We can find ourselves in a quandary about big decisions, up...
Episode 56 - Persona
25 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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,...
Episode 55 - Identifying & Integrating the Personal Shadow
18 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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, scho...
Episode 54 - Chronic Lateness
11 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
People who are chronically late create relational problems with others and generate negative consequences for themselves, from embarrassment and guilt...
Episode 53 - Should I Stay or Should I Go?
04 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
One of the issues clients bring into the therapeutic consulting room is dissatisfaction with the state of their marriage or partnership. Although this...
Episode 52 - Precognitive Dreams
28 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Listeners contributed examples of precognitive dreams for this episode. Lisa, Joseph, and Deb discuss theoretical concepts and listener dreams from va...
Episode 51 - What is Your Therapist Thinking?
21 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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 cl...
Episode 50 - Shopping
14 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Everyone shops—we have access to an astonishing choice of products. Internet shopping has multiplied our range of options beyond what nearby retail ...
Episode 49 - Dietary Over-regulation and the Pursuit of Purity
07 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Preoccupation and obsession with food–a condition called orthorexia--can take the form of the quest for health and purity, with rigid rules about fo...
Episode 48 - Estrangement
28 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Estrangement from members of one’s family and others takes place far more often than seems commonly acknowledged. Estrangement involves psychologica...
Episode 47 - Falling in Love with your Analyst
21 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Episode 46 - Hiding
14 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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 treasur...
Episode 45 - The Wall
07 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Episode 44 - The Archetypal Power of Football
31 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Football is a uniquely American sport with millions of fans, heroic teams, and stadiums reminiscent of colosseums. As the Super Bowl approaches – te...
Episode 43 - Heartbreak
24 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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 lov...
Episode 42 - Over Apologizing
17 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
What is “I’m sorry” as a habitual response really about? There’s the preemptive apology that is offered to forestall possible criticism, the a...
Episode 41 - Regret
10 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Along with a our guest podcast Brazilian Jungian analyst Leticia Capriotti, we explored the psychological underpinnings of regret. We considered that ...
Episode 40 - What's Unique about Jungian Analysis?
03 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
How is Jungian analysis different from other psychotherapies? What are its major components and distinguishing features? And what makes it effective? ...
Episode 39 - Shrink Rap Radio
27 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This week we sat down with Dave from Shrink Rap Radio to discuss dream analysis. We hope you enjoy and happy holidays!
Episode 38 - Holiday Madness
20 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
As the holiday season approaches, we examine the tidal pull of the ancient, archetypal power of the solstice season. Because of this underpinning, tog...
Episode 37 - Narcissism
13 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The myth of Narcissus constitutes the archetypal root of the character structure of narcissism. Aspects of narcissism run from the healthy development...
Episode 36 - Adulting: Leaving the Parental Path
06 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
What does it mean to separate from one’s parents and parental complexes—the attitudes and values that have been deeply instilled since infancy? Ho...
Episode 35 - Loneliness
29 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Loneliness is a deeply human and universal experience. Lisa, Joseph and Deb examine it from multiple perspectives: as it may be experienced in young a...
Episode 34 - The Scapegoat
22 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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 a...
Episode 33 - Archetypal Dynamics of Gender Transformation
15 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Lisa, Joseph, and Deb circumambulate the difficult issue of gender reassignment. They discuss the significance of teen girls wishing to transition and...
Episode 32 - Slobs
08 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
What happens when one is held captive by the mud of messiness? We try to understand sloppiness as a defense against overwhelming emotions, ongoing enm...
Episode 31 - Food Addiction
01 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Compulsive eating is a complicated psychological and biological problem. Food addiction can be a way of defending against unmet needs by displacing em...
Episode 30 - Escaping Literalism
25 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Episode 29 - ENVY & JEALOUSY: Hobgoblins in Relationships
18 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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 l...
Episode 28 - Boredom
11 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Boredom is not depression or dissociation, sadness or loneliness…but what is it? We consider boredom from various perspectives: lack of access to on...
Episode 27 - Dream Animals
04 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Episode 26 - Betrayal
27 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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 th...
Episode 25 - The Psychology of Divination: a depth approach
20 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Divinatory systems have been used for thousands of years as a source of help and direction to people wishing to resolve situations of personal uncerta...