Welcome to this Jungian life.

Three good friends and Jungian analysts, Lisa Marchiano, Deborah Stewart, and Joseph Lee,

invite you to join them for an intimate and honest conversation that brings a psychological perspective to important issues of the day.

I'm Lisa Marchiano, and I'm a Jungian analyst in Philadelphia. I'm Joseph Lee,

and I'm a Jungian analyst in Virginia Beach, Virginia. I'm Deborah Stewart, a Jungian analyst,

and Cape Cod.

Thank you. Today we're going to explore something that is so central to Youngian analysis and youngian thought, which is the transformation of attitudes. So there are many things that go into an analysis.

Most people are familiar with analyzing dreams, for instance. But often the point of all of this

work can sometimes get muddied.

And so Jung reminds us, scattered throughout his writings,

that it's the one-sided attitude,

which is the orientation towards repetitive action, the readiness of the psyche to act or react in a certain

way is the attitude, and when that central attitude is not balanced, that we begin to become

symptomatic. Analysis and all of the various things that Jung suggested is an attempt

to change the way in which we get ready to be in life. And when that kind of mainframe

program shifts, the whole personality shifts.

And so we're going to talk about what Jung meant by attitude and how that's relevant to the transformation process.

So I'll start just by perhaps saying in a less muddy way that Jung described an

attitude as a readiness of the psyche to act or react in a certain way. So that reflects an overarching

mental or emotional orientation that shapes how we engage with the world,

with ourselves and with our experiences.

It can be consciously adopted and sometimes unconsciously just reveals itself.

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