COVERED: An Archetypal Take on the COVID Mask
This Jungian Life Podcast
Joseph Lee, Deborah Stewart, Lisa Marchiano
4.8 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 30 July 2020
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
DREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them! Masks are the symbol of COVID life, and they have archetypal roots as old as humankind. We ward off evil microbial forces with bandanas, neck gaiters, patterned fabrics, and high filtration medical masks. Masks provide access to our shape-shifting potential, connect us to our instinctual depths, mediate our relationship to the spirits, and open a portal to the mythic realm of story and drama.
Masks waft us into new identities: children become superheroes or face-painted animals; women apply make-up, men craft beards, and everyone wears sunglasses that shade us from more than sunlight.
We also wear a social mask, persona, and present different aspects of ourselves to colleagues, Facebook friends, and family—but if we identify with the faces we present to the world we risk defining ourselves according to fixed and superficial attributes. Masks in all their forms affect the experience of wearer and viewers.
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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. |
| 0:09.4 | Jung wrote, dreams are a little hidden door in the innermost and most secret recesses of the soul. |
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| 1:09.2 | Welcome to this Jungian life. Three good friends and Jungian analysts, Lisa Marchiano, |
| 1:15.4 | Deborah Stewart and Joseph Lee, invite you to join them for an intimate and honest conversation |
| 1:20.7 | that brings a psychological perspective to important issues of the day. I'm Lisa Marchiano, and I'm a Jungian analyst in Philadelphia. |
| 1:30.3 | I'm Joseph Lee, and I'm a Jungian analyst in Virginia Beach, Virginia. |
| 1:35.3 | I'm Deborah Stewart, a Jungian analyst on Cape Cod. |
| 1:55.8 | As we were musing over our topic today, I brought forward a particularly intense experience that I've been having with my clients. |
| 2:03.2 | That as people are talking about the decision to wear a mask to protect themselves from a COVID infection or not, or that conversation in the general political sphere, I began to |
| 2:10.9 | realize that aside from the medical advice around wearing a mask, people have intense feelings that have accumulated |
| 2:22.5 | around those who do or don't wear a mask. What's clear is that the archetype of the mask |
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