by Joseph Lee | Apr 22, 2021 | Core Jungian Concepts
Our colleague Puddi Kullberg, author of The Bad Mother, joins us to acknowledge motherhood’s shadow. A link to her paper is below. Our culture idealizes motherhood, but mothers everywhere have experienced themselves as bad in varying ways and to various degrees. Jung...
by Joseph Lee | Apr 8, 2021 | Core Jungian Concepts, Metaphysical
https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/thisjungianlife/TJL_158-Phoenix.mp3 The splendid-feathered phoenix lives for hundreds of years builds its own funeral pyre, sets it on fire, and rises from the ashes after three days. The phoenix represents long life, conscious...
by Joseph Lee | Feb 18, 2021 | Core Jungian Concepts, Personal Issues
Photo Credit: John Towner via Unsplash https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/thisjungianlife/TJL_151-Truth-v2.mp3 Subjective truths yield multiple realities—political and religious truths famously differ. Objective truths rely on independent realities—two plus two must...
by Joseph Lee | Feb 11, 2021 | Core Jungian Concepts, Personal Issues
Photo Credit: Benjamin Davies via Unsplash https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/thisjungianlife/TJL_150-Facing-Feelings.mp3 While we welcome “good” feelings, we often try to banish “bad” ones like sadness, fear, vulnerability and shame. We may deny them by trying to...
by Joseph Lee | Jan 8, 2021 | Core Jungian Concepts, Personal Issues
Photo Credit: Sean Benesh via Unsplash https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/thisjungianlife/TJL_145-Willpower.mp3 The ability to choose and exercise will is a defining characteristic of humans. Only humans have enough energy available to consciousness to escape the rule...
by Joseph Lee | Dec 31, 2020 | Core Jungian Concepts, Cultural Currents
https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/thisjungianlife/TJL_144-Female-v2.mp3 Myths and fairy tales depict female initiations into authority and adulthood. Hades abducted Kore (maiden) into the underworld; Snow White choked on a poisoned apple and lay in stasis;...