by Lisa Marchiano | Aug 14, 2020 | Personal Issues, Relationships
When far from life in the wild, relationships with animals are often through pets. We find kinship and difference in our friends of very foreign origin. Pets let us be tender, elicit nurturing, and help heal trauma through secure attachment. Our creatures keep our...
by Lisa Marchiano | Jul 23, 2020 | Personal Issues, Relationships
https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/thisjungianlife/TJL_121_Inner-Companion-d.mp3 When you’re down, and in trouble, and you need some loving care…You just call out my name, and you know wherever I am, I’ll come running to see you again…you’ve got a friend. Carole King...
by thisjungian | Jan 30, 2020 | Cultural Currents, Relationships
Polyamory, a current phenomenon, endorses open relationships with multiple lovers. The term means many loves, and polyamory strives to legitimize the benefits of non-monogamous romance and sexuality among adults. Jung engaged in an open, extramarital relationship...
by thisjungian | Dec 12, 2019 | Core Jungian Concepts, Relationships
Siblings are embedded in the human psyche as they are in life. Even if one lacks siblings, there is ready access to them through friends, fairy tales, myths, and scripture. All feature multiple experiences and examples of sibling solidarity and siblings as shadow...
by thisjungian | Dec 5, 2019 | Relationships
Partings connote a finality of farewell that signifies completion of a relationship. We may part from a stage of life, depart from home or college, or say farewell to a person, process or project. Partings signify the end of a story that has been told and reached...
by thisjungian | Nov 21, 2019 | Core Jungian Concepts, Relationships
It happens all the time: people and problems split into opposing camps, whether the conflict is internal, between partners, in a family or—as we know all too well—between political parties. When positions become polarized conflict ensues, whether between mind and...