So Jung gives us three stages of the kanyuktu.

The first kanyongtio, he tells us, is the union of conscious and unconscious content.

In other words, shadow work.

When we say, oh, I can't stand thus and such, that's a negative fascination,

because we'll often find ourselves talking about it

over and over and over again. Finding that way to bring it back inside and to admit in some regard,

the intolerable thing is in fact an aspect of myself that I have rejected or I've been convinced

to reject.

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, on Cape Cod.

Music Deborah Stewart, a Jungian analyst on Cape Cod. So we've enjoyed over the last number of episodes introducing you to the alchemical sequence

that was so instructive for

Jung's understanding of transformation. Transformation is a very unique idea. We might change our mind,

we might learn a new skill, become more proficient at some psychologically difficult moment.

But transformation is an idea that's unique to analytical psychology and Jung's idea,

that one thing can be transformed into something remarkably different, unique. And this process of facilitating our

own transformative process through the acquisition of wisdom and understanding, as well as

participating in things like dream work. So in the seven stages that we've talked about,

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