5 of the Best Christmas Episodes to Binge This Holiday Season

This Jungian Life Podcast

Joseph Lee, Deborah Stewart, Lisa Marchiano

Jungian, Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Psychology, Dreams, Jung, Relationships, Selfhelp, Society & Culture, Psychoanalysis

4.8 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 25 December 2024

⏱️ 317 minutes

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Summary

'Tis the season to join Joseph, Lisa, and Deb in a Jungian romp through the holiday in all its complex splendor.

1. Scrooge on the Couch: How the Numinous Transforms

Something's going on in Scrooge's soul.. and it's tired of waiting for an invitation. Pull up a chair and ponder the universal story of a man whose trauma was transformed on Christmas night.

2. Mr. Grinch on the Couch (01:13:55)

What if the Grinch was in psychotherapy? Sit in while we discuss his clinical case and wonder if his struggles come from a deep-seated inferiority complex or worse.

3. Solstice: Why is the longest night so magickal? (02:14:08)

Join us as we explore retreating into the unconscious as a psychic wintering, calling our life force into the darkness to prepare for the rebirth of light within us.

4. Holiday Madness (03:26:13)

Archetypal forces gather as the nights grow longer. By the time we show up for the holiday meal, we're often on the verge of being overwhelmed. With a bit of help from three analysts, you might find helpful hints on managing the stressors.

5. Holiday Hauntings or Who ARE these people?!?! (04:20:30)

Holiday homecomings kindle visions of joy but also evoke old family patterns and unfinished business. Join three Jungian analysts who will help you successfully navigate complicated family dynamics.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to this Jungian life.
0:04.2	Three good friends and Jungian analysts, Lisa Marchiano, Deborah Stewart, and Joseph Lee,
0:09.7	invite you to join them for an intimate and honest conversation that brings a psychological perspective to important issues of the day.
0:19.4	I'm Lisa Marchiano, and I'm a Jungian analyst in Philadelphia.
0:23.4	I'm Joseph Lee, and I'm a Jungian analyst in Virginia Beach, Virginia.
0:28.3	I'm Deborah Stewart, a Jungian analyst, on Cape Cod.
0:43.0	Marcia. Marley was dead to begin with.
0:46.4	There's no doubt whatever about that.
0:54.2	The register of his burial was signed by the clergyman, the clerk, the undertaker, and the chief mourner.
1:01.2	Scrooge signed it, and Scrooge's name was good upon change for anything he put his hand to.
1:06.0	Old Marley was as dead as a doorknail.
1:30.5	So, we're going to dive into Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol, and the powerful archetypal themes and images that have kept this story alive, generation after generation, because it speaks to something powerful and numinous within the human experience.
1:37.7	Yeah, I've always loved this story, and I'm sort of a big fan of it in all of its versions.
1:43.6	There's that kind of movie version from God knows one called Scrooged.
1:46.0	That's just great, the musical version.
1:54.0	And I, you know, it occurred to me a long time ago, the sort of parallels with the story with a kind of deep analytic process. I'm not the first person to notice that. Other people have
1:58.7	written about it. We thought it would be fun to
2:01.5	kind of take a Jungian view on this particular story, which we think is particularly apt.
2:07.1	It's endured, as have many, many, many of Dickens' works because it does speak to something
2:13.7	universal. And this time, I hadn't read it for many years.
2:19.0	And I was deeply affected and touched by it.
2:24.9	Of the path of transformation encapsulated in, you know, 100, just a few more than
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