Desirous Dreams: Our Private Erotic Encounters

This Jungian Life Podcast

Joseph Lee, Deborah Stewart, Lisa Marchiano

Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.7 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2026

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Erotic dreams are extremely common. We may experience them as pleasurable, exciting and moving, or as disturbing and upsetting. It can be hard to talk about erotic dreams, even in therapy, as they insist on attending to secret satisfactions and shames.

There is relatively little written on the subject from a Jungian perspective, so this week we dive in and discuss how to work with your erotic dreams. We also analyze some of the many dreams our listeners sent in.

Erotic dreams may be about connection, union and intimacy, or confront us with shadow figures and situations that show us what we deny or disobey. They may also offer us potent images of unexplored desires.

Join us as we interpret four erotic dreams: a hedonistic experience in a hotel pool, an unsettling meeting with a repellent music teacher, a ritualistic sauna experience, and an unwanted kitchen encounter that invites the dreamer to reclaim her own desires.

Read the dreams we analyze in full on our website.

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0:00.0	There is something about the nether regions, that very first ground-level chakra,
0:07.7	that has to do with body and its functions and instinct.
0:13.7	And Jung is very, very clear about the need to recover our instinctual functions and make them conscious.
0:24.6	Welcome to this Jungian life.
0:26.6	Three good friends and Jungian analysts, Lisa Marchiano, Deborah Stewart and Joseph Lee,
0:32.6	invite you to join them for an intimate and honest conversation
0:36.6	that brings a psychological perspective to
0:39.1	important issues of the day.
0:42.5	I'm Lisa Marchiano, and I'm a Jungian analyst in Philadelphia.
0:46.5	I'm Joseph Lee, and I'm a Jungian analyst in Virginia Beach, Virginia.
0:51.5	I'm Deborah Stewart, a Jungian analyst, on Cape Cod.
1:06.3	Well, as many of you know, back in 2024, the three of us published our book Dreamwise.
1:15.2	And one of the things that we did when we published Dreamwise was we started this special podcast topic that we called Dreamography,
1:23.0	where we asked you to submit some of your dreams on a particular topic. So we could look at,
1:29.4	you know, the range of dreams on a given subject that come in, because we talk quite a bit about
1:36.0	this in the book. And we are happy to report that the book will be published in paperback, and that will come out on June 9th.
1:47.1	So if you haven't had a chance to get a copy yet, or perhaps you want to send a copy to someone,
1:52.8	you can get the paper back starting in June 9th in the United States.
1:57.2	It will be available.
1:59.0	But one thing that we realize we've done dreams about weddings and
2:03.4	babies and travel and intruders and all kinds of things, we have not talked about sex dreams.
2:13.2	And what an oversight, because that is a very common category of dreams.
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