by Joseph Lee | Oct 28, 2021 | Core Jungian Concepts
Photo Credit: Sinitta Leunen via Unsplash https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/thisjungianlife/TJL_186-Witch.mp3 It’s witching season, the time when women of all ages embrace a mythical image of unfettered feminine power. The witch may cast spells, seek vengeance, or...
by Joseph Lee | Sep 30, 2021 | Core Jungian Concepts
Psychotherapy is essentially the work of making shadow conscious—all that we have not discerned then disowned, or projected onto others. We seldom welcome shadow, for it is marked by emotions and motivations that deflate, disturb, and dethrone ego. From family...
by Joseph Lee | Sep 23, 2021 | Core Jungian Concepts
Photo Credit: Laurenz Kleinheider via Unsplash https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/thisjungianlife/TJL_181-Self.mp3 Jung says, “There is another instinct, different from the drive to activity and so far as we know specifically human, which might be called the reflective...
by Joseph Lee | Aug 26, 2021 | Core Jungian Concepts, Guests
Photo Credit: Mark Winborn https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/thisjungianlife/TJL_178-Metaphor.mp3 The most fundamental medium of our knowing is language, and metaphor imbues language with music. Our guest Mark Winborn is a clinical psychologist and Jungian analyst who...
by Joseph Lee | Aug 19, 2021 | Core Jungian Concepts, Personal Issues, Relationships, Therapy Related
Photo Credit: via Pixabay https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/thisjungianlife/TJL_177-Splitting.mp3 We seem hard-wired to split the world into polarities: right/wrong, either/or, victory/defeat, Democrat/Republican. Infants and toddlers have not yet achieved the...
