by Joseph Lee | Feb 4, 2021 | Personal Issues
Photo Credit: Emiliano Vittoriosi via Unsplash https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/thisjungianlife/TJL_149-Self_Loathing-v3.mp3 The judgmental inner voice of self-loathing has volume, speed, pitch and range. It may appear as a perfectionistic critic, demanding...
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 10, 2020 | Core Jungian Concepts, Personal Issues
Photo Credit: Johannes Plenio via Unsplash https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/thisjungianlife/TJL_141-Fantasy.mp3 Is fantasizing helpful or harmful? Fantasy is the process of engagement with unconscious processes, from the depths of the mythic unconscious to the...
by Joseph Lee | Dec 3, 2020 | Personal Issues
Photo credit: Niklas Hamann via Unsplash https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/thisjungianlife/TJL_140-Doubt.mp3 Doubt can help or hinder us. Doubt disturbs us. Unlike the more defined polarities of ambivalence, doubt is pervasive, muddy, and ranges from crippling to...
by Lisa Marchiano | Oct 22, 2020 | Personal Issues, Therapy Related
Suicidal depression is a phenomenon unique to the human species. Depression, rage, and powerlessness can overwhelm ego functions, leading someone to believe that escaping life is the only option. Affects of archetypal proportions can act like tsunamis in the psyche....
by Lisa Marchiano | Oct 15, 2020 | Core Jungian Concepts, Personal Issues
The first major stage of adaptation, the transition from child to adult, requires readiness to separate from protective life structures in pursuit of outer world goals. It entails developing a strong, flexible ego devoid of overly negative or idealistic beliefs about...