by Joseph Lee | Oct 23, 2025 | Cultural Currents, Guests
VIDEO AUDIO The new controversial Netflix series MONSTER: The Ed Gein Story offers a window into the devouring mother archetype, a transformation fantasy gone horribly wrong, and the human capacity for monstrous behavior. Gein’s crimes inspired the Hitchcock...
by Joseph Lee | Sep 25, 2025 | Cultural Currents
VIDEO AUDIO Dolls are human stand-ins that invite projection and play; children use them (including action figures and Barbies) to try on identities and develop imagination, then later withdraw the projection as the figure becomes inert again. Icons and idols differ...
by Joseph Lee | Sep 11, 2025 | Cultural Currents
VIDEO AUDIO Bullying is about unmanaged aggression and broken containment in early life. Aggression is normal, but kids need adults to name it, hold it, and channel it into play with clear rules. When that doesn’t happen, some children learn to control and humiliate...
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 | Apr 17, 2025 | Cultural Currents
VIDEO AUDIO Adolescence is a transitional life stage marked by profound biological, psychological, social, and cultural changes. Spanning roughly the second decade of life (and often extending into the early twenties), it bridges childhood and adulthood in complex...
by Joseph Lee | Jan 24, 2025 | Cultural Currents
VIDEO Art Credit: Jano Tantongco, jano.tantongco@gmail.com AUDIO Pamela Power, a Los Angeles Jungian analyst and author, joins us in exploring the psychological and social tensions caused by the current catastrophic wildfires in her city. Fire is the great eraser. It...