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This Jungian Life Podcast

Joseph Lee, Deborah Stewart, Lisa Marchiano
  • 4.7 (1.6K)
  • Mental Health
  • Updated Weekly

Join us—Lisa, Deb, and Joseph—for sometimes irreverent but potentially life-changing conversations. Every Thursday, we explore culture, relationships, and depth psychology through the lens of Carl Jung. We devote a segment of each episode to analyzing a listener’s dream.

  1. The Absent Father: Jung and the Missing Masculine

    2d ago

    The Absent Father: Jung and the Missing Masculine

    A father who is unavailable - whether due to untimely death, a demanding job, family breakup, or simply an inability to step up and meet his children’s needs - may deprive his children of the emotional bedrock they require. They can struggle to access their capacity for aggression and creativity, or to build the self-esteem necessary for successful adult relationships. As many fairy tales show us, an absent father is sometimes experienced alongside an abusive mother, leaving a complicated legacy of emotional wounding to be worked through. First of all, the abuse must be confronted, and then the failure of the absent parent to witness or protect. Jung’s life offers us fascinating material with which to explore the impact of the absent father. His father’s powerlessness as an uninspired, struggling pastor planted the seed of Jung’s lifelong quest for the numinous. As a father himself, Jung paid little attention to his children as he developed his life’s work and maintained a relationship with his collaborator Toni Wolff alongside his marriage to Emma Jung. Join Jungian analysts Lisa Marchiano and Deborah Stewart this week as they explore what it means to be an absent father, and how we might both survive and transcend the legacy of such a parent. Visit our website to read today’s dream, get more detail on the absent father, and follow up on the resources we mention. Connect With This Jungian Life Download our free ⁠⁠⁠Dream Recall Meditation Guide⁠⁠⁠. Check out our ⁠⁠Dream School⁠⁠. Watch bonus mini-episodes on our ⁠⁠Patreon channel.⁠⁠ Follow This Jungian Life on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

    1h 24m
  2. [SUBSCRIBER BONUS] The Roar of the T-Rex

    3d ago ·  Bonus • Subscribers Only

    [SUBSCRIBER BONUS] The Roar of the T-Rex

    Hey Subscribers, This week, we're discussing a dream submitted by one of our supporters, a 42-year-old woman who is an educator: "I am in a social space I don't recognize and can't fully concretize. The room is moderately large with low ceilings and sealed concrete floors. There are wooden tables and chairs and a long band of glass windows along the exterior wall, but all of this seems a bit unformed. A tyrannosaurus appears at the glass and raps it with its muzzle, pauses, then crashes its head with shocking force through the windows and roars. I watch it grab my 13-year-old daughter from nearby. I dive behind a table, press my back hard against the thick wooden leg and go still. I know it's looking for me. I can see in my mind its piercing eyes look in my direction, and I know it knows where I am. I don't know if anyone is left in the room, and I try to work out a plan that could save my life and possibly the lives of those the T-Rex has already consumed." Thank you for supporting This Jungian Life! ~Lisa, Joseph, and Deb

    14 min
  3. The Cry of Merlin: A Jungian Approach to the Wizard

    Jun 11

    The Cry of Merlin: A Jungian Approach to the Wizard

    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 Grail—it also gives us Merlin’s darkness and power: sorcery, communion with nature, and the prospect of achieving our aims through shadowy transgression. This week, our special guest is Jungian analyst and friend DOUG TYLER. Doug guides us through Merlin’s role in Western culture, sharing some of his favorite stories and explaining the profound influence of Merlin on his analytic work and psycho-spiritual landscape. Considered through a psychological lens, Merlin models the necessity of journeying downward and confronting our darker aspects. He prefigures Gandalf and Dumbledore, embodying the archetype of the mature masculine in a strong and shadowed relationship with the feminine. Merlin can also be understood as a counterpoint to Christ: although his father was a demon, he was born to a virgin mother and twice offered himself as sacrifice. Read the dream we analyze in full on our website. Connect With This Jungian Life Download our free ⁠⁠Dream Recall Meditation Guide⁠⁠. Check out our ⁠Dream School⁠. Watch bonus mini-episodes on our ⁠Patreon channel.⁠ Follow This Jungian Life on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

    1h 13m
  4. [SUBSCRIBER BONUS] Concrete Pagoda

    Jun 11 ·  Bonus • Subscribers Only

    [SUBSCRIBER BONUS] Concrete Pagoda

    Hey Subscribers, This week, we're discussing a dream submitted by one of our supporters, a 63-year-old woman who is a psychotherapist in training to be a Jungian analyst: "My town has constructed a stone open-air structure with four round columns and sheer silk curtains between the columns. The roof is also stone and looks like a pagoda roof. The inside is a riot of color and textured cushions on a simple bed. The structure is built on lily pads in the middle of a lake in the middle of my town. And for a thousand dollars, you can purchase an overnight stay, complete with being rowed out to the concrete pagoda. My youngest son and daughter-in-law, who is pregnant, are visiting me, and my daughter-in-law would like to stay overnight on the lake in the pagoda. I'm excited to purchase this stay for her." Thank you for supporting This Jungian Life! ~Lisa, Joseph, and Deb

    10 min
  5. Working with Short Dreams and Fragments

    Jun 4

    Working with Short Dreams and Fragments

    This week, to mark the publication in paperback of Dream Wise: Unlocking the Meaning of Your Dreams, Jungian analysts Lisa Marchiano and Deborah Stewart interpret a selection of short dreams sent in by listeners. Many of us dismiss short dreams or fragments of dreams as unworthy of our time. We await the arrival of epic, cinematic dreams, while perhaps overlooking the gold that can be found in more “ordinary” dreams. Honoring short dreams by writing them down and spending time with them can yield powerful insights. It can also work as an incentive to your unconscious, helping you remember more dreams, and more of your dreams. The time you spend on fragments and snippets strengthens connection with the unconscious. We hope you enjoy today’s discussion of dreams: an overfed fish raising big relationship questions, a meeting with Greek mythology’s star-crossed lover Thisbe, a harsh landscape of volcanic rocks and blood, a bleached Christ figure, and a biting spider at a crossroads in the dreamer’s life. Buy the paperback version of Dream Wise: Unlocking the Meaning of Your Dreams Read the dreams we analyze on our website. Connect With This Jungian Life Download our free ⁠Dream Recall Meditation Guide⁠. Check out our Dream School. Watch bonus mini-episodes on our Patreon channel. Follow This Jungian Life on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

    59 min
  6. [SUBSCRIBER BONUS] What is the Role of the Therapist in Jungian Analysis?

    Jun 4 ·  Bonus • Subscribers Only

    [SUBSCRIBER BONUS] What is the Role of the Therapist in Jungian Analysis?

    Hey Subscribers, Today we're discussing a question submitted by a supporter: "How would you describe the role and stance of therapist in Jungian analysis? I've wanted to be a Jungian analyst for some time, but recently have been learning about relational dynamics in my counseling program and feel very drawn to Carl Rogers' theory of the therapist being an empathic and genuine collaborator, rather than expert interpreter. I'd love to hear about how you view the analytic container from the inside and what that relationship looks like in practice." Thanks for supporting This Jungian Life! ~ Lisa, Joseph, and Deb

    13 min
  7. The Devouring Mother: Facing Archetypal Darkness

    May 28

    The Devouring Mother: Facing Archetypal Darkness

    Every archetype has a dual aspect: light and dark, and ‘mother’ as devouring and destructive is the dark side of this ever-present, over-arching archetype. The mother’s life-giving, bright aspect is counterbalanced by her engulfing, attacking aspect. The devouring mother is present across cultures in myth, fairy tale, religion, and literature, and most of us have at least had glimpses of her in our experiences as children or later, as parents. 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. Drawing on myths of the Aztec goddess Tlaltecuhtli, the Hindu goddess Kali, the tale of Snow White, and the film Black Swan, we examine the archetypal image of the mother who nourishes and devours, protects and possesses. We also look at how the devouring mother shows up in ourselves and in our own parents. This dynamic can present as enmeshment, helicopter parenting, fear-based control, or an inability to allow our children to separate and become fully themselves. Read the dream we analyze in full on our website. Connect With This Jungian Life We’re analyzing your short dreams or dream fragments to celebrate the publication of the paperback of our book, Dream Wise: Unlocking the Meaning of Your Dreams: ⁠⁠send your short dream here⁠⁠. Pre-order the paperback edition of ⁠⁠Dream Wise: Unlocking the Meaning of Your Dreams.⁠⁠ Take a look at ⁠⁠This Jungian Life Dream School⁠⁠, our online course in Jungian dream analysis. Follow This Jungian Life on ⁠⁠Instagram.

    1h 6m
  8. [SUBSCRIBER BONUS] Rewiring Consciousness

    May 28 ·  Bonus • Subscribers Only

    [SUBSCRIBER BONUS] Rewiring Consciousness

    Hey Subscribers, This week, we're discussing a dream submitted by one of our supporters, a 54-year-old man who works as an interventional cardiologist: "I'm in a hospital. It is as if I am disconnecting a patient from a complex system of tubes, wires, hoses, and sensors. He is regaining consciousness and is getting better. I know it is a good time to disconnect a catheter, similar to a Swan-Ganz catheter. I am doing it confidently. I know what it looks like. I find it in the tangle of other cables, and I'm taking it out from the body and separating it from the rest of the tubes and wires. The disconnected cable is on a holder with many screws. Some of the screws fall to the ground. An assistant starts picking them up. There are many assistants present. One of them has an attitude. I sense that during the healing process, there may be a conflict with this assistant." Thank you for supporting This Jungian Life! ~Lisa, Joseph, and Deb

    13 min
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Join us—Lisa, Deb, and Joseph—for sometimes irreverent but potentially life-changing conversations. Every Thursday, we explore culture, relationships, and depth psychology through the lens of Carl Jung. We devote a segment of each episode to analyzing a listener’s dream.

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  • Creator
    Joseph Lee, Deborah Stewart, Lisa Marchiano
  • Years Active
    2018 - 2026
  • Episodes
    543
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Joseph Lee, Deborah Stewart, Lisa Marchiano
  • Show Website
    This Jungian Life Podcast
  • Provider
    This Jungian Life, LLC

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