by Joseph Lee | Jun 24, 2021 | Core Jungian Concepts
Photo Credit: Joseph Lee https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/thisjungianlife/TJL_169-Thresholds.mp3 In medieval times, the threshold was a plank that kept barnyard “threshings” outside the house. In the sciences, a threshold is the limit of magnitude or intensity that...
by Joseph Lee | Jun 10, 2021 | Core Jungian Concepts
Photo Credit: Jade Masri via Unsplash https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/thisjungianlife/TJL_167-Extraversion.mp3 Although Jung’s theory of typology is the foundation of various personality assessments, it is important to appreciate its profundity as Jung’s theory of...
by Joseph Lee | May 13, 2021 | Core Jungian Concepts
Photo Credit: Benjamin Davies via Unsplash https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/thisjungianlife/TJL_163-Introversion_v2.mp3 The terms introversion and extraversion, now cultural staples, originated with Jung and describe the overall direction of life energy. The widely...
by Joseph Lee | May 6, 2021 | Core Jungian Concepts, Metaphysical
Photo Credit: Marc Oliver Jodoin via Unsplash Erich Neumann publicly proposed the concept of the ego-Self (or Self-ego) axis and began to sketch its implications in his 1952 Eranos lecture, “The Psyche and the Transformation of the Reality Planes. Edward...
by Joseph Lee | Apr 22, 2021 | Core Jungian Concepts
Our colleague Puddi Kullberg, author of The Bad Mother, joins us to acknowledge motherhood’s shadow. A link to her paper is below. Our culture idealizes motherhood, but mothers everywhere have experienced themselves as bad in varying ways and to various degrees. Jung...
by Joseph Lee | Apr 8, 2021 | Core Jungian Concepts, Metaphysical
https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/thisjungianlife/TJL_158-Phoenix.mp3 The splendid-feathered phoenix lives for hundreds of years builds its own funeral pyre, sets it on fire, and rises from the ashes after three days. The phoenix represents long life, conscious...