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 | Apr 1, 2021 | Cultural Currents
https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/thisjungianlife/TJL_157B-Stamps_v2.mp3 Swiss Jungian scholar Jager Schmallzenburger has recently released news of the discovery of Jung’s erotic stamp collection. Found tucked into the wall behind a bookcase, the box of stamps...
by Joseph Lee | Mar 25, 2021 | Cultural Currents
Photo Credit: Roi Dimor via Unsplash https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/thisjungianlife/TJL_156-Exile.mp3 Exile and alienation could be considered the external and internal aspects of rejection. Exile is not chosen but is imposed and unwanted: a relational break-up,...
by Joseph Lee | Feb 26, 2021 | Cultural Currents, Personal Issues
Photo Credit: Vadislav Babienko via Unsplash https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/thisjungianlife/TJL_152-YA.mp3 The twenties are a period of emerging adulthood, a time to engage in the maturational tasks of finding one’s place in the wider world and forming intimate...
by Joseph Lee | Jan 28, 2021 | Cultural Currents, Guests
Kwame Scruggs https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/thisjungianlife/TJL_148-Myth-as-Medicine.mp3 Kwame Scruggs inspires men through mythology, drumming and connection to community and culture. As a young man Kwame discovered his inner fire through African-based initiatory...
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;...