Authority: Who’s in Charge Around Here?
This Jungian Life Podcast
Joseph Lee, Deborah Stewart, Lisa Marchiano
4.8 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 23 April 2020
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
DREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them! The dictionary defines authority as the power to “influence or command thought, opinion or behavior.” Authority’s Latin roots are master, leader, author—thus it lives next to its tough cousin, power. Families, organizations, and governing bodies influence and command us, whether slightly or mightily. Authority has legitimacy, from a traffic officer’s directives to a mentor’s wisdom. An authority may reward desired behavior or provide expert advice. We can rebel against authority, be coerced into compliance, or fall into identification with a leader. Ultimately, we must claim our own authority in determining values and making decisions. Jung says, “Life calls us forth to independence, and anyone who does not heed this call because of childish laziness or timidity is threatened with neurosis. And once this has broken out, it becomes an increasingly valid reason for running away from life and remaining forever in the morally poisonous atmosphere of infancy.”
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| 0:00.0 | Have you ever wondered what your dreams mean? Join us in DreamSchool at thisyunginlife.com and find out. |
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| 1:09.5 | Welcome to this Jungian life. |
| 1:12.0 | Three good friends and Jungian analysts, Lisa Marchiano, Deborah Stewart and Joseph Lee, |
| 1:17.5 | invite you to join them for an intimate and honest conversation that brings a psychological perspective to important issues of the day. |
| 1:27.1 | I'm Lisa Marchiano, and I'm a Jungian analyst in Philadelphia. |
| 1:31.2 | I'm Joseph Lee, and I'm a Jungian analyst in Virginia Beach, Virginia. |
| 1:36.1 | I'm Deborah Stewart, a Jungian analyst, on Cape Cod. |
| 1:50.8 | We wanted to talk this week about authority complexes. |
| 1:57.2 | This is something that people bring into analysis all the time in little ways and big. |
| 2:05.3 | Most of us have some difficulty with authority. Maybe this shows up in relationship to our partner, |
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