Ideally, our life energy is flowing out. It's carrying us with it out into the world. It gets us

out the door in the morning. However, there are times when libido gets damned up for a variety of

reasons. Well, Jung spent a lot of time in Volume 5 talking about this very thing, he said that one thing that can

happen is that when the libido is blocked, it can start flowing in and down. That can look

like depression.

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 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. My husband always asks me every Monday, what are you going to talk about?

And I said, this week, we're going to talk about antelibidinal forces in the psyche.

And he said, I've never heard of that.

And I said, yes, you have.

We've all experienced times when we work against ourselves, we undo things, we stop ourselves from trying things, we sabotage ourselves. I don't think there's anybody who hasn't experienced that. So under this very wordy heading that I started out with,

let's talk about the ways that we get in our own way to no good purpose, what that means

and what to do about it. Well, we're really talking about our self-destructive tendencies, aren't we?

And by the way, I would say that your husband is remarkably non-neurotic.

So he may really not have had much experience with this.

But most of us have some self-destructive streak

in us, and it can look different ways. And we'll talk about that. But of course, you know,

the tendency to, the human tendency to being, toward being self-destructive, whether that's on an

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