SEWING: Stitching a Life Together
Humans moved from stitching animal hides to sewing cloth, from necessity to fashion, and from handwork to factory. To sew is to repair, alter, and create. If a rip or tear is sewn unthinkingly, the ga...
10 Nov 20221h 7min
Matthew Quick on Jung, heartbreak, and healing in his new novel We Are the Light.
Matthew Quick, author of The Silver Linings Playbook, shares himself and his new book, We Are the Light. Writer’s block led Quick to ThisJungian Life podcast, analysis, and letter writing as a literar...
3 Nov 20221h 44min
Zombies: a call to consciousness
Zombies have recently risen from mythological depths to menace modern-day culture. Zombies image the horror of vulnerability to dehumanized existence. They exist in a meaningless void marked only by i...
27 Okt 20221h 5min
The Problem with Problems: solve or avoid?
Problems can pester, persist and plague. They range from short-lived to chronic, bothersome to heart-wrenching, resolvable to unalterable. Problems cause what Jungian analyst and author James Hollis r...
20 Okt 20221h 12min
OCD: The Distress of Repression
Obsessions are unwanted, intrusive thoughts; compulsions are unwarranted, involuntary behaviors. Though different, they often go together, for compulsions pose as protection from the imagined bad cons...
13 Okt 20221h 14min
The Inferior Function: Opening to the Interior
There is a crack in everything / That’s how the light gets in. LEONARD COHENJung’s system of typology—our characteristic way of orienting to the world—led to the creation of the widely used Myers-Brig...
29 Sep 20221h 18min
Theory of Enchantment: Chloe Valdary
Could the antidote to racism be enchantment? Chloe Valdary thinks so. Theory of Enchantment is a radical approach to anti-racism rooted in understanding that celebrates the complexity of the human spi...
22 Sep 20221h 3min
THE QUEEN: Archetype & Individual
Queen Elizabeth II is mourned around the world. The world saw stages of life live in and through her: from maiden to mate, mother to matriarch, elder to aged. She inherited her title but grew into her...
15 Sep 20221h 5min
