by Joseph Lee | Aug 14, 2025 | Archetypal, Core Jungian Concepts
VIDEO AUDIO Solutio is Psyche’s method to facilitate transformation: our rigid ego is softened in symbolic water, allowing outworn attitudes to unbind. We can see this reflected in dreams of oceans and baths, or a wall of our house dissolving. This can show up when we...
by Joseph Lee | Jul 18, 2025 | Archetypal, Core Jungian Concepts
VIDEO AUDIO The calcinatio stage in Jung’s alchemy is about being put through inner fire—it’s when the ego undergoes a kind of burning away of projections, illusions, and inflated ideas about itself. This stage often brings intense suffering, frustration,...
by Joseph Lee | May 8, 2025 | Core Jungian Concepts, Metaphysical
VIDEO AUDIO The religious function is part of who we are — as natural as needing food or love. It’s the inner drive that pushes us to find meaning, to touch something larger than ourselves. Jung saw that if we don’t tend it, it doesn’t go away; it twists itself into...
by Joseph Lee | Apr 24, 2025 | Core Jungian Concepts, Cultural Currents
VIDEO AUDIO Inner guidance is Psyche’s built-in orienting system, a silent interlocutor that Jung named the Self. When the ego listens to that source, life organizes around an inner axis rather than around social noise. The conversation begins in dreams: every night...
by Joseph Lee | Mar 27, 2025 | Core Jungian Concepts, Guests
VIDEO AUDIO Unlocking the Power of Your Shadow If you’ve ever been startled by an impulsive action or a sharp comment you later regret, you’ve likely met your shadow. The shadow refers to aspects of ourselves—traits, impulses, fantasies—that we’d rather not claim as...
by Joseph Lee | Jan 9, 2025 | Core Jungian Concepts
VIDEO Art Credit: Jano Tantongco, [email protected] AUDIO Analyzing Our Childhood Dreams offer a unique window into the collective unconscious, which often manifests with stark clarity in early life. Emerging from the nascent psyche, childhood dreams arise...