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The Problem with Problems: solve or avoid?

The Problem with Problems: solve or avoid?

Photo Credit: Christopher Lemercier via Unsplash https://traffic.libsyn.com/thisjungianlife/TJL_236-Problems.mp3 Problems can pester, persist and plague. They range from short-lived to chronic, bothersome to heart-wrenching, resolvable to unalterable. Problems cause...
OCD: The Distress of Repression

OCD: The Distress of Repression

Photo Credit: Cesar Carlevarino-Aragon via Unsplash https://traffic.libsyn.com/thisjungianlife/TJL_235-OCD.mp3 Obsessions are unwanted, intrusive thoughts; compulsions are unwarranted, involuntary behaviors. Though different, they often go together, for compulsions...
VOLCANO: archetype of creation and destruction

VOLCANO: archetype of creation and destruction

Photo Credit: Alex Person via Unsplash AUDIO https://traffic.libsyn.com/thisjungianlife/TJL_234-Volcano.mp3 Volcanoes appear in our myths, movies, and dreams. Their awesome destructive power fascinates us and serves as a reminder that we are not in control of nature’s...
Eating the Lion

Eating the Lion

Animals appear in all kinds of guises in dreams. When we have dreams about animals, we know we have had an archetypal encounter — but of what kind? This dream lends itself to a consideration of two very different ways we might understand the image of eating a...