by Joseph Lee | Aug 19, 2021 | Core Jungian Concepts, Personal Issues, Relationships, Therapy Related
Photo Credit: via Pixabay https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/thisjungianlife/TJL_177-Splitting.mp3 We seem hard-wired to split the world into polarities: right/wrong, either/or, victory/defeat, Democrat/Republican. Infants and toddlers have not yet achieved the...
by Joseph Lee | Jul 8, 2021 | Personal Issues
Photo Credit: Erica Marsland-Huynh via Unsplash.com https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/thisjungianlife/TJL_171-Attention.mp3 We plainly pay attention, using the finite currency of time and energy issued in the 24-hour increments that add up to a life—well spent? We...
by Joseph Lee | Jul 1, 2021 | Personal Issues
Photo Credit: Robert Metz via unsplash.com https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/thisjungianlife/TJL_170-Letting-Go.mp3 In the first half of life, we strive to develop ego strength and achieve our dreams. To want, will, and work is worthwhile and adaptive–until a...
by Joseph Lee | Jun 17, 2021 | Cultural Currents, Metaphysical, Personal Issues
Photo Credit: Gabriel E. via Unsplash.com https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/thisjungianlife/TJL_168-Wounded-Man-v2.mp3 Jung’s earliest dream, at age three or four, preoccupied him all his life, “in an underground chamber, a giant phallus stood erect on a golden...
by Joseph Lee | Jun 3, 2021 | Personal Issues
Photo Credit: Vidar Nordi Mathisen via Unsplash.com https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/thisjungianlife/TJL_166-Saying-No.mp3 Toddlers have ready access to no as they discover the power of me—the start of a lifelong process of differentiating self from all that is...
by Joseph Lee | May 27, 2021 | Personal Issues
DCF 1.0 https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/thisjungianlife/TJL_165-Risk.mp3 We can’t help knowing that something bad could happen if we do X…or Y…or maybe Z. Like Odysseus steering his ship between sea monsters Scylla and Charybdis, we must navigate between risk...