by Joseph Lee | Nov 9, 2023 | Cultural Currents, Guests
VIDEO Art Credit: Jano Tantongco jano.tantongco@gmail.com AUDIO The digital era has potentiated emotional reactivity, especially with the rise of social media. Platforms like Twitter have weaponized emotions, intensifying polarization and complicating mutual...
by Joseph Lee | Nov 2, 2023 | Cultural Currents
VIDEO Art Credit: Jano Tantongco jano.tantongco@gmail.com AUDIO Today’s technology allows us to be seduced by the possibility of fame and celebrity tempting the ego to claim what does not belong to it. In earlier times fame was garnered slowly through work in...
by Joseph Lee | Oct 12, 2023 | Cultural Currents, Personal Issues
VIDEO Art Credit: Jano Tantongco jano.tantongco@gmail.com AUDIO We have an intrinsic desire to connect and reminisce, but fear of judgment or facing painful memories can push us away from attending reunions. We organize reunions because we yearn to reconnect with old...
by Joseph Lee | Oct 5, 2023 | Cultural Currents, Guests
VIDEO Art Credit: Jano Tantongco jano.tantongco@gmail.com AUDIO Don Kalsched is a Jungian Analyst, an expert on treating trauma, and the author of two books, The Inner World of Trauma and Trauma and the Soul. Jung discovered our inner world is populated by various...
by Joseph Lee | Sep 7, 2023 | Cultural Currents
VIDEO AUDIO https://traffic.libsyn.com/thisjungianlife/TJL_282-Barbie.mp3 [Spoiler Alert.] In the opening scene of the Barbie movie, listless little girls dressed as drab Dust Bowl mothers play at ironing as they tend plastic babies until a gigantic cosmic Barbie...
by Joseph Lee | Aug 3, 2023 | Cultural Currents
VIDEO VERSION AUDIO VERSION https://traffic.libsyn.com/thisjungianlife/TJL_277-AI-v1.mp3 The uses and abuses of ChatGPT artificial intelligence language model have taken the collective imagination by storm. Apocalyptic predictions of the singularity, when technology...