by Lisa Marchiano | Jun 11, 2026 | Archetypal, Fairytales, Guests
Merlin, the mythical prophet, magician, and kingmaker of medieval legend, has lived in the Western imagination for centuries. Arthurian legend gives us more than the idealized government of the Round Table and the hero’s valiant quest for the Holy...
by Lisa Marchiano | May 29, 2026 | Archetypal, Personal Issues
In this episode Jungian analysts Lisa Marchiano and Deborah Stewart explore Erich Neumann’s The Great Mother and his and Jung’s concept of the unconscious as devouring mother. Every archetype has a dual aspect: light and dark, and ‘mother’ as...
by Lisa Marchiano | May 21, 2026 | Archetypal, Core Jungian Concepts, History & Development of Analytical Psychology, Relationships
In this final episode of our series on Jungian alchemy, we explore coniunctio, the union of opposites that gives rise to new wholeness. There are many ways in which we might encounter coniunctio in outer life. We might fall in love, form a...
by Lisa Marchiano | Apr 16, 2026 | Archetypal
AUDIO The labyrinth is a powerful metaphor for psychological development and the path of individuation. “But the right way to wholeness is made up, unfortunately, of fateful detours and wrong turnings. It is the longissima via [longest path], not straight but...
by Lisa Marchiano | Mar 26, 2026 | Archetypal, Core Jungian Concepts, Cultural Currents
VIDEO AUDIO Jung suggested in Aion that humanity is moving from the great symbolic Age of Pisces to the Age of Aquarius. Join Jungian analysts Lisa Marchiano, Deborah Stewart and Joseph Lee, as we ask what it means to live through the turbulence and vitality...