by Joseph Lee | Dec 22, 2022 | Cultural Currents, Personal Issues, Relationships
Image Credit: Joseph Lee https://traffic.libsyn.com/thisjungianlife/TJL_245-Holiday.mp3 Holiday homecomings kindle hopes of achieving a domestic ideal, though family gatherings are also likely to evoke old roles and emotions. Families open a portal into the patterns...
by Joseph Lee | Dec 15, 2022 | Cultural Currents
Illustration Credit: Joseph Lee https://traffic.libsyn.com/thisjungianlife/TJL_244-Film.mp3 In psychoanalysis, a screen memory covers up a deeper, more emotionally charged issue. Similarly, movie and television screens both shield and open us to human complexity...
by Joseph Lee | Dec 8, 2022 | Archetypal, Cultural Currents
Photo Credit: Joseph Chan via Unsplash https://traffic.libsyn.com/thisjungianlife/TJL_243-Revolution.mp3 We tend to think of revolution as a people’s push-back against perceived oppression—a reaction to rulership that has rejected fairness, change, and accessibility....
by Joseph Lee | Dec 1, 2022 | Personal Issues, Therapy Related
Photo Credit: Elti Meshau via Unsplash https://traffic.libsyn.com/thisjungianlife/TJL_242-Melancholy.mp3 Melancholy evokes images of poets and artists for whom suffering and giftedness go hand in hand. Creative ability as compensation for affliction is depicted in...
by Joseph Lee | Nov 24, 2022 | Archetypal, Cultural Currents
Photo Credit: Mireille Raad via Unsplash https://traffic.libsyn.com/thisjungianlife/TJL_241-Games.mp3 Humans have played games since prehistoric times. Games bring us together and pit us against each other. We agree to rules, take turns, develop tolerance for...