by Lisa Marchiano | Aug 27, 2020 | Cultural Currents, Personal Issues
https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/thisjungianlife/TJL_126-Money-v3-d.mp3 Money reflects our shadows and strengths as much as our bank accounts. Like Hermes, money traverses the realms from Hades to Heaven–money can be a matter of survival, and money can turn...
by Lisa Marchiano | Jul 30, 2020 | Cultural Currents
Masks are the symbol of COVID life, and they have archetypal roots as old as humankind. We ward off evil microbial forces with bandanas, neck gaiters, patterned fabrics, and high filtration medical masks. Masks provide access to our shape-shifting potential,...
by thisjungian | Jun 11, 2020 | Cultural Currents, Guests
Racial injustice takes one’s breath away. It reaches back to the psychic asphyxiations of the Middle Passage, slavery, and Jim Crow—cut-offs from home, family, freedom and justice. Racism persists in systemic inequities and ongoing instances of police...
by thisjungian | Jun 4, 2020 | Cultural Currents
How can we understand the psychological wild fire of rioting? Jung, who lived through two world wars, understood that mass movements had the power to manifest archetypal energy. The urge to unleash destructive chaos is depicted in mythologies around the world. Early...
by thisjungian | May 28, 2020 | Cultural Currents
Oppressed, repressed and regressed, the forced restrictions of the Covid Complex have us in its grip. We may see friends and family more often than ever, but only on a screen. Work, school, home, weekdays, weekends—time and tasks slide around like Jello on a hot...
by thisjungian | May 7, 2020 | Cultural Currents, Therapy Related
We have moved our lives online. But can we experience authentic human connection through virtual technology? Can we date, mourn, or have psychoanalysis on a screen? If screens offer some surprising intimacies—close-ups of wedding vows and eulogies—they also deprive us...