by Joseph Lee | Apr 28, 2022 | Cultural Currents, Guests, Therapy Related
Photo Credit: Joeyy Lee via Unsplash https://traffic.libsyn.com/thisjungianlife/033122_Shadowland_BETH_4.14.22.mp3 This is Shadowland, a new podcast experience from This Jungian Life that explores the lives of people who take refuge in the hidden places of our...
by Joseph Lee | Apr 7, 2022 | Cultural Currents
Photo Credit: A grief stricken American infantryman whose buddy has been killed in action is comforted by another soldier. In the background a corpsman methodically fills out casualty tags, Haktong-ni area, Korea. August 28, 1950. Sfc. Al Chang. (Army) NARA FILE #...
by Joseph Lee | Mar 31, 2022 | Cultural Currents
Photo Credit: Vidar Nordli Mathisen via Unsplash https://traffic.libsyn.com/thisjungianlife/TJL_207-Hunting.mp3 To hunt is to engage the opposites: the hunter must attune and align with nature in order to kill part of it. According to mythographer Joseph Campbell,...
by Joseph Lee | Mar 17, 2022 | Core Jungian Concepts, Cultural Currents
Photo Credit: Davide Ragusa via Unsplash https://traffic.libsyn.com/thisjungianlife/TJL_206-Tension.mp3 Holding the tension between opposites was one of Jung’s foundational precepts. Although contradictory views are often a better witness to truth than one-sided...
by Joseph Lee | Feb 10, 2022 | Cultural Currents, Personal Issues
PHOTO CREDIT: Brett Jordan via Unsplash https://traffic.libsyn.com/thisjungianlife/TJL_201-Gullibility.mp3 Jung says, “The more one turns to the light, the greater the shadow behind one’s back.” Unacknowledged shadow can increase vulnerability to coercive dealings and...
by Joseph Lee | Jan 27, 2022 | Cultural Currents, Metaphysical
Photo Credit: Eric Begin https://traffic.libsyn.com/thisjungianlife/TJL_199-Contagion.mp3 When the archetype of purity is activated, science and psychology intersect. Fear of contamination has deep instinctual roots, evidenced in universal facial expressions of...