by Joseph Lee | Nov 4, 2021 | Personal Issues
https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/thisjungianlife/TJL_187-Ambition.mp3 Ambition is a fire whose flames rise in the first half of life when hopes and dreams are fueled by possibilities in the external world. It takes creative audacity to seize a dream, develop a...
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...